Whether it’s your iPhone’s earpiece or your speakerphone not working, both can be a bigger problem than you might expect. Even if you have headphones to listen to music, without the sound coming from the speaker, you won’t be able to hear incoming calls, alert tones, text notifications, and other features.

This article describes eight simple ways to fix the most common reasons why your iPhone isn't making the sound it should.

Fixing an iPhone with a speaker that’s not working isn’t necessarily difficult, but it can be tricky. That’s because there are a lot of things that can cause an iPhone’s speaker to remain silent.

For example, your phone could be on mute without you realizing it, Bluetooth could be routing the sound somewhere else, or audio output settings could be messed up. Most of the time, the exact cause of a faulty iPhone speaker isn’t clear until you’ve tried the appropriate solution.