Garage Band (and other apps) Input Monitoring in iOS 16 does NOT work.

I finally gave up and upgraded to an Apogee JAM+. Didn’t want to cuz 1) my JAM was still in fine shape and 2) JAM+ is $180! Apogee provided incredible support btw, even testing an iPad 9 with a JAM+ to make sure it works. They will sell you a refurb JAM+ (store demo, open box etc. ) for $159 and you can get a $25 trade in on the JAM legacy. I got a demo from local music store. Saved on shipping. Works great, altho there are some odd control “features” between the JAM+ and whatever app you are using.

Still, the whole thing sucks, thanks for nothing APPLE.

Hi Mgoetz33, I had to give in and splurge £100 on a secondhand Apogee Jam+ in the end. It solved the problem straightaway, but nevertheless a frustrating scenario. A warning, though: the input is way louder than my previous interface, so it’s difficult to get the levels to match on songs I was halfway through. I also have to readjust the levels on every take, as the Jam+ doesn’t seem to save them

Same here. Using iRig 1, lightning adapter. Amplitude works sometimes but Audio is all static and when playing Apple Music songs with trainer, sounds like its underwater and detuned. Tonebridge effects dont work at all, but can hear Preview Sound with no issue. The only thing that does work now is input on Garageband but always need to reselect Monitor input when switching Amps

Years ago I have iPad 2 and iRig. I don’t remember clearly, but they works no problemo. Now I have iPad 2021 and recently find my iRig. If I connect headphones to iRig, iPad works how it should. If I play drums on GarageBand and headphones connected via iRig, iPad still works just fine.

Disaster (aka Apple quality) starts as soon as I switch to amp. Instead of read iRig guitar input it read…. iPad”s inbuilt microphone! More fun, instead of headphones (which are still connected via iRig) Garage Band output sound via iPad’s inbuilt speakers)). Also, only able to hear Guitar only than play recorded. No monitor option. And one more thing - than I remove iRig monitor option suddenly appears. But as I insert iRig into iPad monitor option disappear…

Hmmm, I have an iPAD 2021 (specifically because it has a headphone jack) with IOS 16.2 and a legacy Apogee JAM that works great on my clunky older iPAD mini running lower IOS. Still no input monitoring with iPAD and 16.2.

However, my iPhone with 16.2 DOES see the JAM! Sadly there is no headphone jack on that phone!

APPLE? Are you reading this? Fix the iPAD too!

Using GarageBand on my iPad Pro or iPhone 13 (both iOS 16.3.1), I’ve tried a Line 6 Sonicport and a Behringer UM2 via lightning cable interface (both of which worked perfectly prior to iOS 16), and…no dice. No monitoring, no instrument input. HELP!!!

Hi, I upgraded to 16.1 too on an iPhone 12 Pro. The output from Irig/Tonebridge samples work fine. Output from guitar now also works, but very noisy/crackly. In addition, Tonebridge app is now crashing frequently.

This is extremely aggravating. After the update, all I hear is static when playing thru my iRig. I am a professional musician on the weekends and this has extremely hampered me keeping up w the material I need to learn. Especially with the holidays approaching. I reinstalled amplitude a few times, having to pay for it a second time, before I realized others were having the same issue.

Yep, I agree. This is Apple for you! It really means that apps/gadgets like iRig are not useable…so as I said in a previous post, I don’t understand how IRig do not state this. Use Android or wait is the only solution.

Thanks for the update! After reading through this post, I’m still not sure buying a irig/apooge to play with Tonebridge is a good idea. Any alternatives would be great to hear. I wish I can trust tonebridge as a potential user.