iOS 13.4.1 audio skipping/glitching

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

Thanks for the tip, I did it on my iPhone X and the hard reset worked for a while but today it is back to its old unwelcome tricks. I am surprised it has taken Apple this long to address this issue.

Ditto to all the above...

It comes and goes! Or has yours been working fine since?

Laggy games text messages coming in twice takes forever for anything to open up and I still have 70% free space phone not near full and music skips like a cd player on a old dirt road

Mine wasn’t resolved. Did heaps of tests for them took weeks, then never contacted me back. Ended up using another phone.

Just did the iOS 13.6 update and guess what? It has the same bug! Embarrassing! Apathy wins again. Hope the same fix works.

I have an iPhone 8 and I’m experiencing the exact same thing. I’ll just reinstall iOS 13.4, as I wasn’t having issue with it before this update. When the next update comes out, I’ll wait and see what people’s reviews are before updating.

A phone call didn’t work for me, but the audio/input glitch somehow fixed itself. However, I was still experiencing a lot of lag and safari was force quitting often, not to mention that this was happening with other apps. I went back to 13.4 and everything is back to normal. It’s time consuming to roll back to 13.4, but if you can’t wait for Apple to fix these bugs then go for it.

Switching the music app off doesn’t make any difference for me. Audiobooks are the worst thing affected, non-stop stuttering if I have any other app open in the foreground other than Books or when I open any other app - which makes me wonder if it’s a matter of the OS not being able to continually buffer audio in advance properly any more. It’s the kind of thing you get using a DAW when your audio driver buffer isn’t being filled fast enough so it keeps emptying. Usually with DAWs it’s a sign of an over-worked cpu that can’t keep up with the demand on it or storage isn’t being accessed quickly enough.

IPad audio used to be one of the thing’s strongest assets, but somehow Apple seem to have managed to break it, just like the early Mojave releases and the introduction of the T2 chip caused chaos for people recording or producing audio or video because somehow the USB system wasn’t working correctly with USB or Thunderbolt attached professional audio interfaces any more. Apple fixed the problem (pretty much) after a few months but it was a real nuisance when it was happening and caused real problems for people who use Macs for what has always been their strongest feature, Core Audio.

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 factory reset my phone. Ever since then I haven’t had audio skipping. Took about 1 hour, but was definitely worth it.

I have the same problem. I've done using TunesKit Spotify Music Converter to download songs and get them on my phone.