Audible stop playing when iPhone sleeps.

To summarize the problem (is I've experienced it):

• The Audible app stops playing when the iPhone goes to sleep. If you wake the phone up, it starts right back up.
• Doesn't happen with any other audio apps (like Spotify, Apple Music, etc)
• Started sometime around iOS 14 (but I'm sure the Audible app also released an update, shortly thereafter, to be compatible with iOS 14)
• I have not figured out anything that triggers it. I have, quite literally, had it working fine, then I've woken my phone to rewind 45s or check remaining time in the audiobook, and then the audio would stop when the phone went back to sleep.
• Just quitting the app and restarting it doesn't resolve the problem.

Solutions:

• Rebooting the phone seems to fix it (no need to delete/re-install the app)
• As mentioned in these forums, you can also go to Settings->Audible and turn off Audible's access to "Media & Apple Music", and then quit/restart the Audible app. No restart needed. I have not had the issue recur, since then, so this may be a permanent fix, but it's only been 2 days since I tried this fix, and, in the past, I could sometimes go a week or so before the problem happened. Fingers crossed.

That is something that the developer of the Audible app would need to change. When an iPhone is locked, apps do not continue to run unless that capability has been designed into the app.

See if the app has settings to prevent auto lock or to keep playing while the device is locked. If they are not present or you cannot find them, contact the app developer.

Thank you! Reboot fixed this!

This happens to me regularly so my fix is to delete the Audible app then restart my phone then re-install the app. All is well until the next time…

Delete the app, reinstall then restart. That should do it for a few months at a time until Audible/Apple get it together and get things handled.

Why are you yelling at a wall? Is that going to fix your issue? Since others both in this thread and someone else I know have fixed it with an update of the Audible app that would seem to be their issue not Apple's. If Apple did this with the update then every Audible user would have the problem.

Connect it to a Bluetooth device or use an adapter to plug in some headphones or speaker directly then it will work.

First, it is not the Audible App. It worked perfectly when iphone went into sleep mode continuing to play the Audible book in car or just from phone speaker itself until I updated to most recent ios last night.

Second, my book continues to play with my beats X connected, but this is not always possible or as convenient when driving.

APPLE YOU DID IT WITH THE UPDATE! I hope not on purpose since I am and have been for over a decade “all Apple all the time!”

Please fix this!

Delete the app and re-installed, restart the phone. It’ll happen again at some point, but this is the fix until next time. Definitely a pain, but we’ll have to wait until the bugs get worked out.

The same issue just came up for me today. For the past several years, this has not been an issue. I'm not sure if an Apple update or an Audible update did something but as of yet, I haven't found a solution on my own.

This wasn’t an issue until the last two weeks. Clearly audible’s app allowed this function before, will Apple address what was changed in the last upgrade to prevent this from happening now? It’s not the app.

Same thing is happening to me too. Audible stops playing when iPhone screen dims. iOS 14.4.2

Thanks, this fixed it! I just started having the issue this week and my app updated a couple days ago. Restarting my phone cleared the issue completely!

Restarting my phone solved the issue for me! Thank you!

I just had this issue tonight and I think I figured it out. Several apps on my phone needed to be updated, including audible. Try restarting your phone after updating any apps, fixed my issue right up.