How Much Does Phone Speaker Repair Cost?

Muffled calls, no sound during music, or a microphone no one can hear you through — speaker and mic issues are annoying but usually fixable. Here's pricing and what to try first.

Free fixes to try before booking

• Restart the phone — audio routing bugs are common and a restart fixes 70% of them
• Check silent mode — iPhone's physical side switch silences the speaker; easy to forget
• Clean the speaker grille — use a dry, soft-bristle toothbrush to gently clean debris from the mesh. Lint and earwax block the speaker grille more often than hardware failure causes silence
• Test in a different app — if sound works in YouTube but not in a call, it's app settings, not hardware
• Check volume during a call — volume buttons behave differently in calls vs media; make sure call volume isn't at zero

Speaker repair prices

Types of speaker issues

Earpiece speaker (top of phone): You can hear others on calls, but they sound muffled or too quiet. Used only for phone calls. If it's dead, switch to speakerphone as a workaround while you schedule repair.

Bottom speaker: No sound when playing music, videos, or notifications. Sometimes only one side of the stereo pair fails (iPhones use the earpiece + bottom speaker as stereo on newer models).

Microphone: You can hear others but they can't hear you, or your voice sounds distant. Test by recording a voice memo — if that sounds fine, it's a call routing issue, not the hardware microphone.

How we diagnose it

We run a speaker diagnostic before opening the device. A system tone test plays audio through each speaker independently so we can pinpoint exactly which component failed. If it's a software routing issue, we identify it before doing any hardware work — because opening a phone unnecessarily isn't something we do.