• Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    It’s because the speakers for the iPhone are on the bottom of the phone.

    Edit: I meant the speakers that are used for “hands free mode”, which is what the user in the image is doing. The reason why people hold their phone like this is because it directs the speaker sound straight at them (again, in hands free mode).

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      1 year ago

      As a former iPhone repair technician, I can confirm this is both true and false at the same time. There’s a speaker in the normal position for the ear as well, it all depends whether the user decided to put the phone into loudspeaker mode.

      This comment coming from an Android user that’s just as guilty of this at times.