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iPhone User Guide

Change FaceTime audio settings on iPhone

Spatial Audio in the FaceTime app 👁 Image
makes it sound like your friends are in the room with you. Their voices are spread out and sound like they’re coming from the direction in which each person is positioned on the screen. You can adjust other audio settings during a FaceTime call.

Note: Spatial Audio also works with the following AirPods models: AirPods 3, AirPods Pro (all models), and AirPods Max.

👁 The Control Center settings for FaceTime calls, showing the audio settings Automatic, Standard, Voice Isolation, and Wide Spectrum.

Filter out background sounds

When you want your voice to be heard clearly in a FaceTime call and other sounds filtered out, you can turn on Voice Isolation. Voice Isolation prioritizes your voice in a FaceTime call and blocks out the ambient noise.

  1. During a call in the FaceTime app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone, open Control Center.

  2. Tap FaceTime, then select Voice Isolation.

Include the sounds around you

When you want your voice and all the sounds around you to be heard in a FaceTime call, you can turn on Wide Spectrum.

  1. During a call in the FaceTime app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone, open Control Center.

  2. Tap Mic Mode, then select Wide Spectrum.

Adjust audio automatically

  1. During a call in the FaceTime app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone, open Control Center.

  2. Tap FaceTime, then select Automatic.

Mute the mic

  1. During a call in the FaceTime app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone, tap the screen to show the FaceTime controls (if they aren’t visible).

  2. Tap 👁 the Microphone Switch button
    to turn off the sound.

    Tap 👁 the Microphone Switch button
    to turn the mic back on.

When your sound is turned off, your mic detects whether you’re speaking, and you’re notified that your mic is muted and that you can tap 👁 the Microphone Switch button
to unmute it.

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