iOS 13.4.1 audio skipping/glitching

Changed my headphones adapter From 3.5mm to iphone x charger thing. All working again. Disappointingly happy now though !

I recall past updates introducing stuttering , but it always fixed itself. Last night 13.4.1 was installed and had the problem all morning after update. killed all apps, power cycled phone, no luck: apple music, podcasts and other audio apps all would keep stuttering.

Then, I made one, normal phone call to my home land line while on speaker.

Boom, everything works again! I guess the phone part of my device got lonely?

I fixed it! I had the exact same issue.

1. restart phone
2. shut all open apps
3. make a normal phone call
4. turn off bluetooth

all fixed!

I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing the same.

I just got off the phone (as in regular phone call) with someone, and thankfully the audio on my end (going out) and their end (coming in) we're both flawless.

And this is interesting.. as I write this, I am finding that all keyboard presses are registering the appropriate sounds without any lag or skipping. Additionally, I am getting normal responsiveness with the audio volume controls.

Let me try my podcast app...

Wow! My podcast app (iCatcher) is also working properly again.

I wonder if somehow receiving a phone call (again - normal phone app feature, not FaceTime or Skype or Zoom) somehow caused whatever bit of code in the iOS update to enter the proper state of function or self-correct?

If you're reading this and having the same audio glitches and UI lag issues, try making a regular phone call and see if that corrects anything. If not, ask someone to phone you, and see if receiving a call might fix the issue.

Or perhaps updating to iOS 13.4.1 simply caused the phone to run some level of background maintenance that was a bit too aggressive, causing the audio & UI glitches, and it simply completed those background processes around the time I received the phone call that seems to have magically fixed the problem for me?

Hoping my phone behaves again, and that what I've shared might be helpful to anyone else with the same issue.

I just updated to iOS 13.4.1 on my iPhone 8 Plus. Now, audio keeps glitching with pauses in audio and UI lag.

The audio glitches are most noticeable in listening to podcasts or music, neither of which are really possible now, unless I want to drive myself crazy missing every few words of a podcast. Even as I type this, the keyboard sounds keep cutting out, then a few taps will make the keyboard sound, then another duration of no sound, etc.

I listen to podcasts all day long and deeply regret not researching to see if anyone else was having issues with the iOS 13.4.1 update. I'm glad to know it's not just me, but who knows how long my device will now be unusable for anything involving audio.

If you're reading this and haven't updated yet, do so at your own risk. I don't know if the issue is only for certain handsets, or more wide spread based on yet unknown conditions - perhaps chipsets?

Thankfully I have an old iPhone 6 Plus that I can use as a backup media player for now. Don't know how long I'll be in iPhone purgatory before Apple rolls out a fix for iOS 13.4.1 and how unusable it has made my phone for anything that involves audio.

Interesting, I just noticed the same lag on the Taptic Engine. When I long-press the space bar to move the cursor around, the Taptic feedback lags behind significantly, or fails all together.

No change, some times it works fine, sometimes it is an absolute pain. Restart, close all apps not being used, try again. I have had to do this up to 3 times before it would settle down. Particular glitch when switching between Music and Audiobooks.

What worked for me on my 8 plus is simply having my son call me on his iPhone. That closed up the glitch immediately.

A hard reset on my Iphone X fixed the problem

It’s not just phones that are affected. My iPad Pro (9.7”) now stutters if the books app is playing an audio book and I do pretty much anything at all in Safari. And if I open any app. A couple of software synthesisers also stutter and it’s very difficult to do anything using them.

This wasn’t happening before the 13.4.1 update.

Same here. Starting, stopping especially with audiobooks. I tried a phone call and it did help for a while but the problem came back. Also helped if I turned Bluetooth off. Just happy to find out I am not alone with this.

Hello everyone in this threat, I just got of the phone with the very "helpful" people at Apple. If you have this issue, please do me a favour and call or text them! Please! Only do this if your device has not been repaired. They refused to help me at all because I have a third party battery. Both employees ignored that the iPhone is plugged in, worked fine before the update and 40 reports from people with original devices having the exakt same issue.

Also mention my Case ID (101072354126), so they see it is their mistake.

I’m seeing this too, immediately after installing the update. All of my apps lag, and my audio goes on-off-on-off-on-off on the same cycle as the lag.

I found a small workaround if you are using audiobooks. Make sure you have music turned off and not running in the background. Doesn't work every time but it has helped.

I also have same issue

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251296036

The more I explore this issue (also 8 plus), the more I see it in literally everything I try. Any app that has any audio associated with it now has a repeating lag or skip to it, in every single app I’ve tried so far. YouTube, cbs, Facebook etc all have the audio going in-out-in-out on a regular pattern. Scrolling in Facebook when it hits a video will lag if it’s in an “out” cycle. I don’t know how this bug made it out; sloppy.