iOS 9.1 Bluetooth buzzing audio iPhone 6s
I have discovered a bug in iOS 9.1, tested on 2 iPhone 6's, and one 6s.
1. Connect your iPhone 6 or 6s to a bluetooth that has the ability to power off ungracefully. This means you can power the bluetooth device off and the phone does not recognize that the bluetooth device is off immediately (the bluetooth icon on your phone remains lit for about 10 seconds before turning gray)
2. While connected, power off the bluetooth device
3. Do anything that causes the phone to play audio. What I generally do is lock and unlock the phone several times (this causes the locking "click" to come out of the bluetooth speaker generally)
4. After the bluetooth turns off, the audio is corrupted. Playing almost any audio will result in a constant buzzing or silence (depending on what the first sound of the audio is). Phone call ring tones are a constant buzz. Some audio sounds are OK, but generally any video or music will cause this to fail.
Only solution to fix I have found is to reboot the phone.
I took my brand new 6s to the genius bar, they suggested to re-set up the phone as a new device. After clearing all data from the phone, with the above technique I was able to get the device to exhibit the same behavior, so it is not my software. On my previous iPhone 6, I had the same issue (but didn't know about the trigger), and I just tried my brother's iPhone 6, and could get the same thing to happen. I've repeated the behavior for multiple bluetooth audio devices.
Has anyone seen this issue? Can you repeat the steps above and get it to happen?
How to report this to Apple so they can fix it? This should be a very repeatable problem. Should I make another genius bar appointment to demonstrate the issue? Obviously, it's not my phone, so I can't get a new one that fixes the problem.
Message was edited by: schveiguy2
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.1, null