Lightning Digital AV Adapter issue after iOS 16 upgrade

I solved my issue with the following guide (chapter Allow access to USB accessories): Using USB accessories with iOS and iPadOS - Apple Support

PLUS you have to reboot the phone after you perform the setting change.

Adam

Same! Ugh. I sure wish I had not updated my phone yesterday! All was working great until iOS 16.2 update.

I've had issues as well. iPhone 12 Pro Max. After updating to iOS16, HBO Max would not play through the Lightning Digital AV Adapter. I finally got it to do a firmware update and it worked fine. A couple days later I tried watching some content on Amazon Prime and it skips while playing through the adapter. Plays fine on the phone. I have not found any kind of solution.

After updating my iPhone 12 Pro Max to IOS 16, I no longer have sound with DIRECTV, Discovery+, and Peacock while streaming with my authentic Apple Lightning to Digital AV Adapter. It’s so frustrating and even more frustrating that apple isn’t acknowledging that this is a bug. I would restore my phone to my last backup before I updated, but I’ll lose wedding pictures and videos that I took after.

Yes it's frustrating. To be honest, the AV Adapter has always been a pain. For $50 it should work flawlessly. I don't have any sound through Prime still and it "skips". HBO Max and recorded video are fine now. I see an app update for Prime Video this morning. Hoping that will help. I will test this evening.

So the Prime app update apparently did nothing. Still no volume and picture skipping with Prime and always have a lot of trouble getting HBO to work without trying multiple times. Ridiculous. Not sure what else to do...

I have the same issue after the IOS 16 “upgrade”. Wife didn’t and it still works fine. Senior support wants me to wipe the phone to factory defaults and lose everything instead of admitting it’s a bug. It’s just a way to get people to go away. If it is an iOS 16 issue how is wiping out the phone supposed to fix it?

Yeah I’m having this same issue still today, even after the most recent iOS 16.0.3 update, as is my girlfriend.

The most frustrating thing is they won’t even acknowledge it in any of the multiple posts being made here about it.

After a phone appointment with apple, they sent me to an apple certified Best Buy which was a complete waste of time. I took time off of work to drive there for absolutely nothing. The gentleman at Best Buy apologized that Apple scheduled me an appointment there for trouble with lightning digital AV adaptor since is obvious it’s not the adapter and that’s it the iOS update. There’s auto with Netflix and Pluto but not with Directv, peacock, or discovery+. Everything worked perfectly until I updated to IOS 16. I cancelled all three subscriptions since I can no longer use them due to this apple software malfunction.

My quite new Lightning Digital AV Adapter was working fine on my ten year old Samsung TV - until the most recent iOS update. I have reset and restored my iPhone 13 Pro and *still* have the same error. I agree that everything points to an issue with iOS 16.

I don't recommend following any suggestions to restore your phone unless you have a day to waste and feel like setting up all of your apps again. Apple, please fix this!

Yes Apple really needs to fix this. I rely on my HDMI Lightning adapter to watch all of our favorite show and movie with my family. Disney +, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and my Paramount + have no sound and the picture glitches. Luckily I haven’t updated my iPad yet and I caught onto the problem before I did.

Try connecting the adapter's lightning port to power. I had the same issue, used to work then stopped. Found an article suggesting proper connector connection order is necessary (https://www.technewstoday.com/lightning-digital-av-adapter-not-working/, includes other troubleshooting tips) but the only thing that mattered for me was adding a power cable to the lightning port.

The adapter comes with the power port. I’m sure everyone already uses that. I always connect to power and the adapter sound only stopped working with the IOS16 update. This is not a user or phone issue. It is a software issue with IOS16. Apparently there are not enough of us using the adapter to get Apple to acknowledge and fix the issue.

Is there one success story anywhere that tells us what to do or when it will be fixed? The internet is full of requests for assistance but I can’t see a viable response that offered a solution or workaround. I am remote w/o internet and only stream via cell data. Am I missing something? I know Apple TV isn’t going to work without wifi…I don’t understand how they can still sell the AV adapter when it is a known fail? Is that even legal?

On the phone with apple support as I’m typing this. They have no clue how to fix this. It’s annoying I updated mine but my fiancé didn’t and my kids didn’t mine is the only one not working. This is beyond frustrating don’t update your phone.