Music keeps pausing / skipping since updating to iOS11

This was driving me crazy for months. The problem for me turned out to be the lightning>3.5mm jack adapter. When I replaced it with a new one the issue disappeared.

I had this happening on all music..Apple,Spotify,Pandora

music skips,siri comes on,etc

Changed to a new headphone adapter.

totally fixed

just change the white toggle adapter

i have iphone x Ios 11.3.1

Hey all..

I suffered this issue for some months. I found a resolution for the slow or intermittent response by the Music App to headphone or screen > Play and >> Fwd commands. YMMV. I am on an iPhone 5S with only local music content.

I unsynced all playslists and discovered there was still a lot of music left over in the iTunes device browser. Much of this was greyed out and had a circle beside it. Other tracks were duplicates of these. These half downloaded tracks might be the source of our problem.

I explicitly unsycned the entire Music library... then updated the phone and waited for these songs to be removed. I then made a local encrypted backup of my now musicless phone. I then restored the phone with this backup. I then re-added specific playlists. To my amazement the Music App now responds near instantly to commands to play local content.

Hopefully this is of some use to you all.

As mentioned in my earlier discussion, my music kept skipping, stopping or starting. It was as if my iPhone X had a mind of its phone. I went to Setting / Display & Brightness and turned of Raise to Wake and it did get better. But last night, my music died completely. I could no longer listen to my music through my Beats headset. I went home and changed the headphone adapter that goes into the headphone jack and now my music works perfectly. No more skipping, stopping and starting by itself. I knew that the adapter is so fragile. So I bought 3 of these. Particularly if you go to the gym, the cord may get caught somewhere and the adapter gets pulled and get damaged. I suggest making sure that the adapter is still functioning.

I’ve already replied on this thread with the same problem like everyone else here. However in my case i al more and more starting to believe that the earpods i received with my iphone x are malfunctioning at the remote buttons and that it isn’t a IOS 11 bug.

I now use my older earpods of my iphone 6s with the lightning cable to headphone jack switch. Now i haven’t found any problem at all with skipping, volume randomly changing, pausing, ... i can also easily skip my songs and change volume etc. without any problems.

Hey guys,

So I've still been having trouble with my songs skipping and calls ending but in my case, I stumbled that it was the "Lightning to headphone Jack Adapter" that was my problem.

I have two/three of these adapters and one seems like its faulty. So I twisted it, bent it in left and right, it changes the songs and fast-forwards them, as well as dropping calls.

So I find my problem, I already made a fool of myself to Marshall as I was blaming them that it was their earphones that were the problem.

Anyway, good luck to all on finding their solutions.

Uninstalling & reinstalling has fixed the problem. But lost all downloads & playlist content - not happy!

I made a comment about a week ago on this thread, and have some more info to add.

I'm using the Apple-provided lightning to phone socket adapter. The regular skipping occurred when I listened with Bose QC25 headphones with the Apple-specific inline volume/mic/control switches.

I switched to using my Audio-Technica ATH-M50x headphones with no inline control, and have not had a skip in 3 days. Short sample time, but based on how often I had skips before I think it is significant.

I still submit it is an apple problem due to the wide variety of headphone possibilities and the fact that the inline control of *all* headphones with problems cannot be going bad at the same time. And maybe some people have skips with bluetooth? I did not read the entire long thread. But this might help localize the problem and lead to a solution.

Maybe there are stray low-level signals from movement that the new SW is not programmed to ignore. But sometimes my music would skip when I was seated still. So maybe it's something else.

It's frustrating, though.

-Adam (again)

I was having the same problem thought I tried everything was about to refund the iPhoneX for Samsung when a live agent from Apple found a fix for me turn off cellular data and turn off wifi wait 20seconds then turn both back on resetting the network has seemed to work for me

Not true. It could be an interaction with other hardware or an app. Either way, the only common factor is the OS.

Just looking at this thread there are multiple iPhone models, mixtures of headphone types (EarPods, lightning connected and not, Bluetooth speakers, etc.), and various apps having the issue. What’s common? iOS 11.

On that note, I appear to have fixed my issues. I reset my device and reinstalled everything on it. I then replaced the headphones I was using. This combo seems to have reset the connections so it does look as though this is an interest ion between the iOS and the headphones. Unfortunately I can’t be more specific since my headphones were not defective in anyway.

I uninstalled Apple Music, reinstalled it, cleared all my downloaded music and then changed the region. After doing all this the problem was fixed.

I had the same issue. Music keps skipping or start playing by itself. I went to Display & Brightness and turned off Raise to Wake. Now it is better.

Updated my iPhone 7Plus to iOS 11.2.6 (15D100). So far, the problem hasn't presented itself since upgrading. However, the update has only been running for 24 hours. I'll monitor it for a week. Hopefully the update has resolved the issue.

It seems to have stopped skipping since I turned Sound Check off. Not sure it’s resolved but might be a short term sanity fix until apple addresses the issue.

It’s been driving me crazy, too. Pauses and skips happen in iTunes, Podcasts, iHeartRadio, etc.

Okay so i found a fix, go to “For You” click on your own ID. Go to View Account > Go to View Apple ID > A popup would appear to switch Apple account to your region, Click OK. this should fix the problem.