Music keeps pausing / skipping since updating to iOS11

Ever since I updated to iOS11 (specifically, I'm on 11.0.3 right now) on my iPhone7, my use of Spotify has been completely messed up. The music will just randomly pause or skip to some random place in the song. Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it will do this so frequently that it's unusable. There seems to be some correlation with movement. For example, it happens a lot when I first stick my phone in my pocket. Sometimes instead of just pausing it will cause Apple Music to start playing. (When this especially annoying feature kicks in, I can usually get rid of it by rebooting.) Often, none of my earbud controls will work, or if they do, the pause button will cause Apple Music to start playing. This is almost certainly an iOS11 issue rather than a Spotify issue because not only did the problem start exactly when I updated, but I noticed that the problem affects apps other than Spotify (though Spotify is the app I used the most by far). Please fix this, because I'm at my wits end. I'm highly tempted to just nuke the phone completely and start fresh.

iPhone 7, iOS 11.0.3

Posted on Oct 25, 2017 8:44 PM

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Jul 29, 2018 4:53 AM in response to DL78

Hi,


I'm having a similar issue with my Iphone 6. I have the latest version of iOS (11.4.1) and every time I listen to music on Itunes, it pauses or skips randomly after a short while (maybe 3 o 4 songs ... roughly 15 mins of music). This also happens when I stream music from the internet (for example, from Bandcamp.com).


I hope that this bug gets fixed for the next updated, as it is very annoying / frustrating.

Aug 17, 2018 3:15 PM in response to DL78

I have an iPad Pro and I’m unfortunately clumsy enough that about a year ago I happened to break the end of my earbud inside my headphone jack and haven’t had sound since. Recently I discovered the dongle works with my iPad for sound sake and I can change the call audio router during FaceTime calls, plus bluetooth works so it’s just a miner inconvenience at best. After updating to iOS 11.0.3 it’s liie **** trying to use this dongle. I mean at first I thought I broke it but it’s seriously in perfect condition. EVERY TIME I SO MUCH AS MOVE Siri pops up, or Apple Music starts for no apparent reason. It’s will make songs go in like super fast motion or randomly pause, or skip the songs all together. The most annoying one is siri constantly popping up. I’ve even turned off Siri, it still doesn’t work. I really thought I broke my headphones at first, which would really suck cause these are brand new VERY EXPENSIVE Bose headphones and would have been horrible. This issue ***** and I really hope they fix it soon 🙄

Sep 19, 2018 8:21 AM in response to DL78

I just updated to iOS 12 and yet this issue has still not been fixed I will honestly just buy a f***ing Samsung or any other phone if this is not fixed soon, I have had this issue for a month now but still have been trying to listen to my songs on Spotify and watch YouTube. Not only does it skip through the song and pause and play every couple of seconds if I start to move in the slightest, but now pulls up siri, I turned siri off and then this voice control thing comes along, in sick if this,


Fix this apple please

Sep 19, 2018 1:13 PM in response to Jack0_

I used to think Apple products were better, even if they did cost a little more. But if Apple doesn't see a profit in something, they will abandon it, and not even fix the bugs. iTunes skipping songs is not only really annoying, it's bad PR, it seems to me. iTunes, in general, needs a lot of updating and fixing. Its limitations and problems are never acknowledged by Apple. After my Macbook Air needs replacement, I am done with Apple products.

Oct 25, 2018 6:20 PM in response to DL78

It’s been happening to my IPad as well. Especially on YouTube and it is so annoying. I’m watching a video a then it starts pausing over and over again. And then it will sometimes change the video I’m watching which angers me so much because I have to watch a ad and then get back to my previous video and watch another ad. It has happened ever since the update and it seems to be on all platforms.... I’m so close to destroying my phone and IPad

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