Music keeps pausing / skipping since updating to iOS11

I have this same issue! Ever Since iOS 11 my phones(I recently upgraded to the 8) have developed a random skip and repeat when connected via bluetooth. I tried rebuilding all my playlists and it did not help!

This is happening for me last night after a 11.3 ios update as well when I can a UPC code using Scoutify or Amazon's Seller Central App. The music fades out when a match/listing is found for the UPC code. The music keeps playing just fine if either app returns "not found".

This is totally insane, I am in the middle of washing the car, my iPhone was plugged into external audio speak via headphones and kept pausing now no songs play. I switched to blue tooth headphones, worked for 30 secs then paused again and the headphone blue tooth dropped for no reason.

If they don’t provide a fix I am switching to Samsung with my entire family, thus is a basic function and no upgrades should cause this. They should test properly on all devices instead of just pushing out half baked updates.

I am so angry right now.

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.

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.

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

iPhone SE 64 iOS: I dont give a ****. This is happening since I bought it (so it means since iOS 10) and I think Im a little bit worse and in more deeper **** than all of you, because not only music pauses at random times anytime the phone wants but also any media playing. This includes any video/audio from you name it: facebook app, youtube app, random safari browsing. **** is ****** up so much I even quit watching videos on my new iPhone. My 4 year old iPod touch with iOS 8.4 does a better job for me.

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 had the same problem. Since I updated to ios11, the playback of my music from Apple Music and Spotify has been terrible. It randomly pauses, skips and restarts songs, and it is not my earphones as it does it out of the phone speakers when there are no headphones plugged in. Hope that Apple get this problem sorted ASAP

they are not going to fix it. i have this issue since I bought the brand new SE 64. so it was iOS 10. and its still there. youtube, soundcloud, youtube via facebook app - every media that can be watched through my device random stops at any times.

Yes I am facing the same issue as well In my iPhone 8 Plus . The music stops or skips . Sometimes suddenly goes to voice control especially using dongle . It’s really annoying . Surprised to see it happens even on iPhone 7 below versions since I thought it happens only with lightning headphones and dongle . Still no update or reply from Apple frustrates me

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.

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 shall use an alternative set of wired Apple EarPods (3.5mm headphone plug version) and go via the 3.5mm to Lightning adapter and monitor the issue from there.

My device now disconnects itself from Bluetooth, too. I believe this is also related to the pause/skipping/end call problem.

This problem occurs so regularly that I had given up using headphones of any kind, with my iPhone 7 Plus, which is very disappointing.

To update the case, the problem occurs when using Apple Earbuds with 3.5mm headphone plug into Lightning adapter, with my iPhone 7 Plus, in conjunction with:

Spotify - music playback; pauses, skips

Apple Music - music playback; pauses, skips

Phone - telephone calls; ends calls

Podcasts - playback of podcasts; pauses, skips, activates Siri/Voice Control

Messenger - voice calls; ends calls

iOS - general use while headphones are connected; randomly activates Siri/Voice Control

My device is becoming more problematic and therefore more useless as the days go by. Please Apple, arrange for an engineer to take an hour out of their day to simply acknowledge this problem, then go from there.

I tend to only have my FitBit and only one pair of cans assigned to my phones at any one time. It's probably why I have never encountered any major issues with both my iPhones. Both of them run 11.2.6.

Headphones can be a crapshoot. I usually use a pair of SkullCandy Crusher Wireless (on Bluetooth) and have never had an issue with them.

If I were to test the Lightning-3.5, I'd definitely be using my Sony MDR-7506's.

I know you can't be more specific, it's fine.