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Im having an incredibly frustrating problem on all my devices Like iPhone XR and iPad Air 2 and all platforms I use. Every time I try to listen to music or a podcast on Spotify or the Apple podcast app the sound will sometimes skip and glitch making it almost impossible to listen to anything. I have contacted customer support and none of their solutions like updating or rebooting are seeming to work. Any ideas?
iPad Air 2, iOS 11
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.
Hi, did you ever get this resolved? I am also experiencing the same issue (Iphone XR). Have not been able to speak to anyone about it since i was told to do a hard reset (didn't resolve the issue!!) Thanks
Hey ! I’m on iphone x, 13.6 iOS
Same here. Audio on all players are glitching and skipping, especially when you lock the screen and put phone in a pocket. It’s like ghost playing with your Spotify and etc
Also comes out the Voice Control when I plug the headphones. Voice Control should be off on my phone though.
Sounds familiar to anyone ?
Yep I'm having the same issue for a few weeks now - I was also wondering if it is something to do with the software update that happened in July.
My phone will unlock in my pocket, skip songs, stop podcast episodes that I am listening to, also have had the 5-minute locked screen twice now. And yes, also playing out of the speakers despite headphones being plugged in.
At first I thought it was my phone hitting my leg in my pocket (the so-called ghost taps) but I've proved that theory wrong, then I thought it was my headphone jack that was the problem (it is less than 1 year old, mind you). I have tried uninstalling the Podcast App as it is the worst offender. Will see what happens.
I’m having the same problem, I thought it was the lightning jack but it does the same thing on Bluetooth and on the internal speakers. I also have ghost touch problems that are transient but affect my phone 40-60% of the time. I’ve tried working with Apple care and they informed me that it’s “probably the screen cover” and I should remove it. I don’t have a screen cover. I informed Apple Care of that and they told me that I probably forgot putting a screen cover on it and that I should remove it (?). Does anyone have a good non-Apple phone suggestion?
I don't have the ghost touch problems but the audio on books is skipping and randomly stopping after ~20 seconds.
A phone call sometimes helps.
Restart iPhone sometimes helps.
I restored iPhone X from backup and that helped for a couple of weeks.
Solution
Use Audible for listening to books.
My iPhone Xr just started skipping on podcasts and I updated to IOS 13.6.1 just several weeks ago. So I don't think it is necessarily one version of IOS causing the skips. I'll try the phone calls. I see there is also a new IOS 13.7 available that allows for Covid 19 updates. No mention of correcting audio skips. Thanks
I am having same problem. Could be the big indexing stuff this update does. It caused friends phone battery to drain fast. Hope it clears up soon. Use audio a lot since work requires driving. You’d think mighty Apple would address/let us know about these issues.
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 also have same issue
Same problem https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251296036
I fixed it! I had the exact same issue.
all fixed!
Start from iOS 13.4
Audio From Up&Down Speaker staticky/crackling sometime (e.g. music, game...)
What worked for me on my 8 plus is simply having my son call me on his iPhone. That closed up the glitch immediately.
Same issue. A few on here are claiming a phone call fixed this for them which seems coincidental at best. Has anyone found any other ways of fixing this? I’m about to roll back to 13.4.
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.
iOS 13.4.1 audio skipping/glitching
