Sound glitching not playing for videos, alarms, apps on iPhone 17 pro max iOS 26.2
Currently I have a new iPhone 17 pro max. It’s running iOS 26.2. Starting today my sound when playing any video or streaming service or my alarms will only briefly play sound for about a half second and then everything is silent. Sometimes an alarm won’t sound at all. My watch will properly vibrate but phone has volume all the way up but no sound or vibration. Turning silent mode on or off has no effect on the issue. I assume a phone reboot will fix my problem but I’d rather pinpoint the source of what I assume is a bug in iOS 26.2. I ruled out speaker issues since the same sound glitch happens with AirPods in my ears. Same issue happens with Bluetooth disabled as well. Turning off attention aware features also didn’t fix my issue. No focus (do not disturb) is active. Turning silent mode on or off or changing volume has no fix. If I’m on instagram and scroll to a new reel, the reel will play the very first half second and then no sound, even when the video loops again. Scrolling to new reel will make that one briefly sound. If I set an alarm it makes the alarm sound very briefly then is silent. I tried a phone call on speaker phone and that sound works continuously. Just any app sound is broken, including iOS native apps like alarms. I was late for work this morning due to not waking from the alarm that ran for the 15 minutes silently without waking me since the first half second alarm sound wasn’t enough to awaken me. Frustrating! Another interesting symptom is that when playing a video from my library the video will pause itself just a second into the video when the sound stops working.
iPhone 17 Pro Max
