Apple Music gapless playback not working in iOS 17

For several months now, going back at least to iOS 16.5, gapless playback is not working in the Music app on my iPhone. This goes for my iPhone XS this summer and now iPhone 15 Pro. I was hoping iOS 17 would fix the problem, but it remains. I mainly have my own personal (ripped from CD) mp3s synched to my phone, but it's also disappeared when streaming from Apple Music (for example, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd). This is very annoying when listening to albums designed to flow continuously (Abbey Road, various Pink Floyd albums, live albums, etc.). Gapless playback on iTunes on my PC works fine; it's the Music app on my iPhone that's the problem. I reported this to Apple a few weeks ago, but iOS 17.0.3 still has the issue. Does anyone know if Apple is working to fix this? It's getting kind of ridiculous that several iOS updates have come out in the past few months but the problem still exists. In the meantime, are there any solutions or workarounds that anyone has come across?


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iPhone 15 Pro

Posted on Oct 11, 2023 9:32 AM

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Posted on Dec 6, 2023 9:32 AM

It's been almost 3 months since iOS 17 launched. And Apple can't even be bothered to make a simple fix for gapless playback.


That's just pathetic.


In the meantime, I've been using foobar2000 to listen to my mp3 files on my phone. It may take a while to get used to after being so familiar with the Music app, but it gets the job done.

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