Ios13 - podcast or music stops playing when going into messages

Go to settings > messages> turn off “raise to listen” under audio messages. It seems to have fixed the issue for me 🙏. (It probably turns off any podcast/music because it assumes you want to listen to the messages instead)

UPDATE: Seems going to Settings > Music and turning off “Show Apple Music” has resolved the problem. This removes the Browse and For You tabs in the music app. It is a temporary fix but one that allows the continuous streaming of my playlists. Hopefully, a permanent solution is on its way.

Try disabling Auto-Play Message Effects (Accessibility>Motion) in Settings. This seems to have solved it for me. (iPhone 8+ just upgraded to 13.1.2 and found the problem).

I found a work around. Turn on iMessage and then at the bottom turn off raise to listen and then turn off iMessage. With this I can now keep music playing while chatting.

This corrected itself on 8 plus after closing down all other open apps. Was not an issue before 13.1.2 but that does fix the problem for now.

Going into messages and turning off the “raise to listen” option fixed it for me !

Reboot worked for me.

Hi pughj17,

Thank you for posting! I understand you're finding that your music and podcasts stop when you open the Messages app.

Does this happen when you open any other apps, or just Messages?

Does it happen when you're playing music through headphones, the speakers, or both?

If you Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and try it out again, does that help?

I hope this helps get you started. Take care.

A power off/power on restart of my phone “fixed” the issue. I am able to listen to audio in background when opening Messages.

Powering down my phone and turning it back on fixed this for me when trying to run the ‘music’ app with a locked screen.

This is strictly an iOS 13 issue. I am running 12.4 on my iPad and all audio works fine.

Chrome - Firefox - even Safari an audio stops when the device goes black / locks. Apple was kind enough to only allow your phone to remain unlocked up to 5 minutes as they removed the “never” unlock feature.

What is most frustrating is Apple knows the problem yet all their customer support people are instructed to reply with boiler plate non responses “did you restart your phone? Is it just one website or every website, are your issues the same as the thousands of people writing about the same issue”.

I can only listen to audio up to 5 minutes. This is beyond aggravating & frustrating.

Whatever code was in 12.4, Apple, please go back to that regarding audio playback.

After trying all sorts of different things and on the brink of “downgrading” back to iOS 12.4, I downloaded the Dolphin browser and was able to play media from website using that browser without it stopping when the phone locked. However that browser crashes on me from time to time if I use it for searching, etc. so I only use it to play online podcasts. I keep looking for new iOS updates hoping Apple will fix this glitch. Or at least let us set the “never” option on the phone lock setting....

I found that Safari works (shocker). The sites I use for audio worked fine in Safari. Chrome and Firefox have had no improvements.

This iOS update is on par with Vista. Apple went and changed everything people were enjoying about their OS. I cannot find one upgrade that has enhanced my experience.

If it's a podcast and you can find it in the podcast app, set the sleep timer (by swiping up) and set it to play until the podcast is complete and that works! At least it just worked for me...and I was having the same problem as you.

I have the same problem but the problem stops when I disconnect from internet