Audio messages are not playing through Bluetooth headphones

Great news everyone! I updated to iOS 15 and the issue is no more! We prevailed lol

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities  Jjisaac0618,

Thank you for contacting us regarding audio messages. You have come to the right place and we are happy to assist you.  If we understand correctly, you are trying to listen to messages received while wearing bluetooth speakers, but only the first one plays.   We can understand why you’d reach out for a solution. To start, make sure your iPhone is up to date using the steps here:

Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Restart your iPhone and headphones after that:

Restart your iPhone

Then test again. If the issue continues, let us know if you're having issues with any other audio between your iPhone and headphones and we'll go from there.

Thank you for contacting Apple Support Communities.

Best regards.

 Jjisaac0618,

Thank you for your response back. If this is the only time there seems to be a disconnect between the headphones and iPhone, we would recommend contacting the manufacture for some insight.

Best regards.

Hi,

I’m SO glad someone asked about this!! I’ve been having the exact same problem for weeks and it’s so frustrating.

After playing the first message as normal in my headphones, it will auto play the next message using the iPhone speaker. So awkward in public! I have to reconnect my Bluetooth device between playing each and every voice text message.

I have tried on 3 different brands of Bluetooth headphones and have had the same issue each time. I have friends with this issue as well. I’ve been using voice texts with iPhone for years and years and have only begun having this problem in the past several weeks. Please keep me updated if Apple comes up with a fix to this bug!

Jjisaac0618,

Thank you so much for getting back to us. At this point, we recommend now to contact Apple Support direct. Feel free to let them know what our recommendations were and that nothing resolved the issue.

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Stay healthy.

I haven’t. The tricks I’ve used is just letting all messages play through with the volume turned all the way down then reconnecting and playing them one by one. Or playing one at a time and then going to my voicemail and selecting my Bluetooth as the audio device and going back. Both options are horrible. I have an iPhone X too and will be upgrading this year I’m wondering if this might be an issue with just old models?

Thank you for asking this! I've been having this issue for weeks now when I use my Bose headphones. Did you ever figure it out?

It also only happens on non apple Bluetooth headphones, my AirPods don't have any issue playing voice messages back to back.

DId you ever solve this issue? Drives me crazy. I have tried multiple non apple bluetooth headsets. Mainly LG. At work we send voice texts all the time. super annoying to have to disconnect and reconnect every time. It has been an ongoing issue for a long time. I was about to upgrade my iphone X because I thought it was my model or phone specific, but glad I didn't seems like an apple issue across the board.

I have the same issue on an iPhone 12 Pro Max

Yupp this bs happens with newer models as well…. Im getting real tired of apple

Still no resolution. It got so frustrating that in the past month I stopped using voice texting entirely aside from through external apps. Hopefully Apple will give this the attention it requires soon though because the apps can be a pain if not everyone you need to voice text has them installed.