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Does anyone else have a 13” MacBook Pro 2020 Headphone jack popping issue?

I've had my new 13” MacBook Pro 2020 (base model, 16GB), for about a week and I've loved it so far, however I've realised that there is an issue when listening to audio through headphones. Whenever the audio stops, starts, or is scrubbed through, there is an audible clicking or popping that sounds a bit like when you plug headphones into an output jack.


I'm not getting the same noise through the speakers as far as I can tell, and when I listen via a 3.5mm to USB-C adapter it absent on the headphones too. So it seems restricted to the headphone port (I've tried different headphones too and the same problem persists.


Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this something that could be fixed in a software update? I really don't want to have to return it...

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on May 20, 2020 6:57 PM

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Posted on May 21, 2020 6:10 AM

This appears to be a power management issue. If any other audio is playing, even when the volume is at zero, then the popping does not occur. So it appears the MBP is turning the audio jack on and off causing the popping. So a quick fix is to have an ambient audio source playing with the audio at zero. I'm personally using Nozio off the App Store as it sits unobtrusively in the menu bar, but I'm pretty sure anything would work. I really hope apple fix this as it has taken the edge off of an otherwise fantastic product.

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May 21, 2020 6:10 AM in response to 2013advert

This appears to be a power management issue. If any other audio is playing, even when the volume is at zero, then the popping does not occur. So it appears the MBP is turning the audio jack on and off causing the popping. So a quick fix is to have an ambient audio source playing with the audio at zero. I'm personally using Nozio off the App Store as it sits unobtrusively in the menu bar, but I'm pretty sure anything would work. I really hope apple fix this as it has taken the edge off of an otherwise fantastic product.

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Does anyone else have a 13” MacBook Pro 2020 Headphone jack popping issue?

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