Apple Music skipping

Same issue here. Literally just updated to 11.3 this morning and now music skips. I have a new battery as of January for my iPhone 6s 128gb, hotspot is not turned on, shutdown the music app and rebooted phone, same issue. Using Apply Music with a mixture of iTunes purchases. Annoying...

I have the same problem here after I’ve updated the iOS system. It is very disturbing. Whenever I put on my earphones to play music, the songs won’t play without skipping, no matter on music apps or Apple Music.

Moreover, Siri and Voice Control keeps popping up.

Having jitter problem on my iPhone 7 and iPad (2018) as well.

I have tested using AirPods and Sony WH-1000XM2, which both of them are Bluetooth devices, jittering when playing some music.

Anyway, same that the wired earphones are ok.

BTW, I’ve tried restarting iPhone, reinstalling Apple Music, redownloading songs...... none of them work.

Having the same problem. I see in the comment section I’m not the only one. Have already tried all solutions within reason (To sugest we delete preinstalled apps to solve an uppdate-related problem is ridiculous). Fix this problem quickly and appologise rather than dumping the problem on the users! Otherwise you will have lost a customer. I only stick with iPhone for the reliability. If you keep giving us unfinished, buggy updates, then theres really no point in paying more for your product right? Sorry for the rant, but this stuff is important

Same here. Both wired and Bluetooth listening (mp3s downloaded to my iPhone 6s) is basically crippled. Can't listen for more than 5-10 minutes at a time without audio dropouts, skipping, stuttering etc. Tried multiple hard resets and other troubleshooting "solutions". None of that works.

Apple, fix this!

Some have posted on another thread that connecting their phone to iTunes and performing a full restore fixed the problem. As this will take several hours for me, I haven’t tried it yet, but others may want to try.

Thank you, but wouldn't a full restore involve restoring from a backup of the exact same iOS? Theoretically, how would this fix the problem? Also, doing a full restore and re-calibrating settings, passwords etc. is a time-consuming headache.

Since Apple discontinued the iPod, the iPhone IS the iPod now, and music listeners are getting shafted here and forced to jump through hoops to troubleshoot the problem. Apple needs to figure it out and release an iOS update quickly.

Decade long Apple user here, and becoming less and less impressed with this brand with each passing year.

I have the same for Music Player and live stream (App) music, on iPhone 7 and it’s only happened since the 11.3 update.

I’ve tried resetting, reinstalling and power cycles but nothing has fixed it.

Interestingly, when the phone in asleep (blank screen) and you get stuttering, lifting the phone to wake it immediately clears the stuttering.

Please fix this Apple as I can’t use my phone to play and kind of audio any more!

I performed a full iPhone restore this morning, and the problem seems to have disappeared. It’s not a great solution ( took over 4 hours), but I recommend it since theres no telling how long it will take for Apple to address in a future update.

I'll second billyboy. I did the full icloud backup>erase all>restore and it appears to have cleared up the clipping, skipping, stuttering. For reference, any audio playing app was skipping: Audible, Podcasts, Music. This was true for downloaded or streamed content. Also, the phone could be awake sleeping or locked. I'd have to pause for 15-20 seconds, rewind a bit and it would clear up for a while.

I did the same – – a full restore. Unfortunately, it was a disaster because of a loop bug in the restore process. After clearing that up, I also had to do a full reset of all my settings. And yes, this is hours of work especially if it doesn’t go smoothly.

With that, I have only used it for two hours of music, but it has been OK so far. I won’t claim victory yet over Apple incompetence until I give it a couple more days. Will report back.

I regret to report that the "full restore" was only temporarily successful.

On my drive home, heard the momentary music "skip" and then it came back in full force, fully distorted.

Ironically, playing podcasts earlier through the iPhone speaker there were no glitches, pops, or stutters. I was feeling confident this would work.

And maybe the full restore fixes that piece, but those of us using iPhone through apple CarPlay for music are still stuck with this disaster.

This is one of many issues I've had with Apple lately. Sad to see their QC go so downhill. Time to investigate downgrading my ios.

****, this is so frustrating! I just don't want to restore the phone with no 100% chance that it would fix the prob, but I guess I have to. Are there so few of us who are suffering from this prob, that Apple just ignores it?

I was very pessimistic and didn’t want to do it either, but was eventually willing to try anything since I couldn’t listen to audio longer than a minute without problems.

I backed up the phone and did a full restore from that backup. 100% fixed. No problems since (four days now, and I use the phone for music listening at least five hours a day). Not sure why another user still has problems after a full restore, but odds are the full restore will work (its worked for more than a couple people here).

Just make sure to do it only when you have a couple hours to spare and you don’t anticipate having to use your phone during that time.

This is an accurate description of the problem. Even a white-noise app on my wife’s phone was having problems. This is totally an iOS audio problem and not due to any particular hardware or app (as I previously suspected).