Microphone seems to be very weak

Since last night my mic on my phone has been acting funny. Hardly anyone can hear me, and i have to put my mouth up to the speaker and practically scream. I am trying to stay away from the apple store as much as possible because of all the craze, but I might be forced to go to the genius bar. Has anyone had this problem and if you did how was it fixed? If I can prevent being on the phone with Apple for 5 hrs or being ran over by tons of people in the store I'd appreciate it!! Thanks!!

I had this issue for several days a few weeks ago. I had to use the headset to have a useable microphone. Restarts and restores had no effect. I was on the verge of returning it for replacement when I called someone to test it before setting off, and it had oddly fixed itself. I still have occasional calls where the other party struggles to hear me but it's not predictable.
Try your headset - plug and unplug it during a test call. This will tell you if it's the microphone itself or the processing/connection. If it's the internal microphone and it persists, it will need service/replacement.

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