My iPhone 6s had to be replaced (at approx 5 mos) because I developed the “Crackle of Death.”
So loud was my “Crackle” I had to keep my phone on mute. I could basically only text, because anything that used sound (even phone calls) were crackled. Along with random fits of crackling just about anytime.
When I took the phone back to the Verizon store, during the very young associate’s “investigation” of MY problem, she noted that I had the phone on mute, so she proudly takes the phone off mute (because obviously I’m a Luddite,) and in about 3 seconds ALL heads in the store were looking our way, as I shouted OVER the crackle, “yep, that’s what it’s been doing.”
The manager joined us then, and by they discussed how they NEVER heard an iPhone make “such a sound” but of course on line there are about a gazillion hits on “Crackle of Death.”
:)
I truly am a Luddite, I’m still using a Nokia 3585 that I got at the turn of the century.
They never fail.