iPhone 17/Ios 26 sound lagging bug

So I’ve recently gotten the iPhone 17 for 2 weeks, but since 2 days ago I’ve started noticing something weird. I was randomly watching YouTube and I just swiped from down to up to close the app, the sound from the video bugged out and lagged 3 times before stopping. I guess it was just a glitch from YouTube app. I noticed this happens randomly throughout the day


But now, when I just press the power button to lock the screen, the locking sound also bugs out in a lagging way and plays 3 to 4 times.


To explain, consider the locking sound as tch

When it bugs out, it plays tch tch tch tch tch and just stops,


display wise everything is fine, it’s just the sound lag which happens randomly throughout the day


Similarly with the YouTube videos, it does not happen all the time but it happens at least 4-5 times in a day


So I’m assuming it’s an ios bug right, please tell me I’m not the only one. It only started happening from 2-3 days ago, I’ve had it for around 2-3 weeks and earlier nothing like this happened

iPhone 17, iOS 26

Posted on Oct 13, 2025 1:26 AM

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Posted on Apr 17, 2026 6:04 AM

I had the same issue. Contacted Apple Support and they said to restart the phone the specific way:


1) press and release - volume up, then volume down

2) press and hold wake up button until Apple’s Logo appear (not the black screen, APPLE’S LOGO) and release.


Seems to be working atm.

Hope it’ll solve the problem for u

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iPhone 17/Ios 26 sound lagging bug

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