Music stops playing while browsing web

This is also happening to me too. Very very annoying. Apple, please investigate and fix.

this issue occurs so frequently that i carry my nano and my iphone

I think that's sensible, Dan.

While it should work properly, the truth is the iPhone is better at one task at a time. I don't use it for playing music because a Nano does it better (in a lot of ways) but I do use it to play movies (which it does very well). To me when I'm waiting this is a better use of it than to try and surf and listen to music as well.

Plus the iPhone isn't good at being jostled and hates sweat/water -- not a workout solution the way the Nano is. All in all I don't see it as being a Nano replacement but more of a video iPod replacement.

Mike Kelley wrote:

Plus the iPhone isn't good at being jostled and hates sweat/water -- not a workout solution the way the Nano is. All in all I don't see it as being a Nano replacement but more of a video iPod replacement.

What problems have you seen shaking the iPhone?

This bug happens regularly to me as well. My understanding from Apple is the the phone is actually resetting (ie, crashing). Its not just when doing ipod and web - it can potentially happen when switching between any two applications, or just when jumping around in the web browser alone. It will require a patch to fix (I have no idea what the underlying problem is), and I've not heard anything from Apple as to when it will be available.

Jeff,

I haven't personally seen any, but there have been many reports of problems when using the iPhone during a workout.

Apparently it may have something to do with the internal gizmo that "knows" the orientation -- or it may not. In any case, it's not recommended for jogging or other such activities.

I have have been having the same problem (music cutting out while using using safari--both on Edge and wifi). I took the first iPhone I bought back to Apple for a replacement and the replacement has the exact same problem. Moreover, when I met with Mac's "geniuses" (gimmie a break) they essentially said "well, that's just part of owning and iPhone," as if such a bug should be acceptable. I cannot believe that Apple has allowed iPhones to ship with this problem. Extremely disappointing. So much for Apple's quality control/quality assurance. I wish I had simply returned it instead of getting a replacement. At this point, I wish I had purchased a different phone from a different company.

I've owned my iPhone for almost two months now and I consistently experience this problem even after updating to 1.1.3 a week or two ago. I've tried resetting the phone,turning it off and back on, reseting and erasing, and yesterday erasing and restoring settings from iTunes. It doesn't appear that anything fixes this problem.

I've thought about bringing going to an Apple store to exchange my iPhone, but from what I'm reading it doesn't sound like it would do any good. Perhaps I'll look into returning it.....

I have the same problem too, everytime when im browsing the web, the music stops playing...

8 GB iphone.

my music keeps crashing regardless of whether i'm using another application or not. i set my music to shuffle, press the top button and put it in my pocket. i'm lucky if it gets through 2 songs before crashing. this didn't always happen, but it's gotten more frequent every day. i first noticed this issue with videos, although most of the time i can watch a whole show with no problem.

i'm very disappointed to see this issue is five months old and still unresolved.

Well it seems this problem is pretty much widespread. Just for thought.. I NEVER had this issue before updating to 1.0.2 and above. I didn't update for a long time either, because of seeing all of the issues others were having with updates. With the original software version, the iPod never crashed once. I definitely have this problem now, and it is only when surfing safari. I know I haven't changed my usage habits because I have used my iPhone extensively every day since June 29th. How can you put the thing down? ; ) So I feel like for me at least, the issue wasn't there until I installed the update.

In my opinion/experience, there has only been issue after issue with each update that has been released. The original version seems to have been the most solid of the software versions to me. I am sure they spent countless hours testing that software version to make it pretty solid. The updates however, seem to be making matters worse and I wonder if it's because they are throwing them together and releasing them without much time for testing which may be fixing a certain issue but causing other issues/bugs in other areas of the phone. Just a thought..

Like I said this is just my experience/opinion. Regardless.. I can't imagine life without my iPhone, it is definitely an amazing device and I wouldn't trade it for any other phone. I know they will eventually get this issue worked out as well as the others and the nice thing about it is that for the most part it's just a software update away.

nothing new to add, but I have witnessed the problem and it saddens me 😟

This sounds like a software design problem, not something that you can fix by replacing your hardware. The problem seems to occur when the iPod app is playing and another app is taking up way too much CPU time doing something.

Here's me with my software engineer hat on: I suspect the iPod app is getting starved for time (because another app is hogging the CPU) and crashes because it isn't able to buffer up the next part of the song before the current part runs out.

I have observed that the Wi-Fi network stack in 1.1.2 is much worse than 1.0.2 when it comes to hogging the system. Try turning on the "Ask to join networks" option, and you'll notice horrendous lags each time you turn on the phone, sometimes to the point of freezing the GUI (yikes!). Network-bound apps like Mail and Safari too behave sluggishly when they get on the network, compared to 1.0.2.

If I had to bet on a root cause, it would be poor implementation of the recent changes to the network stack. It would be prudent for Apple's software team to fix it in the next release.

Well, this will surely not solve the issue, but just to say that I have a French iPhone since November 28 and I experienced this issue last night.

So, it is not on US Firmwares only, but on European ones too

I noticed that alot of the posts are from several months ago (July, August, September...). I began to have this problem after I updated my software to 1.2.2, whenever that was. Never before that, had I had a problem. Cycling the power is a temporary fix, definitely not long term. FIX PLEASE!