Audio stops on airpods

ARRRRGH! Upgraded to iOS 11.4 this morning, and its STILL happening! It's like bugs for every connected device except AirPods are being addressed in these updates...

Has anyone restored from a backup and seen any impact on the performance? I'd like to try but avoid the PITA if I know it won't work.

Same here ,I even unpaired the AirPods in the Bluetooth lists before I did the update.I played about 5 songs on one album with only a couple of hesitations but the next album I have to disconnect and reconnect Bluetooth about 8 times ,if anything it got worse.During podcasts you can pause forward and back 15 seconds (or whatever your setting is) and then it play it will work again.However skipping tracks in music doesn’t fix issue.

Well listed and pointed out. Having the same key issues:

- underwater sounds from calls

- phone will not wake from power on button for a while

- AirPods not having audio even though it’s still paired and music is playing

This happened to me. I had my watch out on a run so no phone. My AirPods worked for about an hour then all of a sudden would stop as described. They would play one song then stop and couldn’t get them to play again for the rest of the run.

Same here. ***** when out on a run and then no music. AirPods have been their best new product in years and now they’re messed up like everything else they do recently. On a side note, their fix for an audio CarPlay issue with audio distortion isn’t fixed in 11.4 like they said. No wonder iOS12 is all about stability. I hope that’s the case.

Having the same problems described by others here - dropping sound while listening to Apple Music, garbled "underwater" sounds on call. Often seems to happen 30-60 seconds into the first song I listen to or a minute or so into a new phone call. Tried resetting phone and disconnecting/reconnecting Airpods but have not tried factory restore of the phone yet. I'm on an iPhone 7 with iOS 11.4 I can restore sound by taking both Airpods out and then putting them back in and restarting or by switching audio output to phone and then back to Airpods. It's very frustrating - I've started going back to my wired headset for important client calls because I can't trust the Airpods.

"It's very frustrating - I've started going back to my wired headset for important client calls because I can't trust the Airpods."

Yes, agreed. I use wired headset for ALL calls since it happens on every call and is annoying and frustrating.

I use the airpods for podcasts and music, until restarting it gets annoying enough where I just play it through the speaker. It's unreal how two Apple products can't work together...

update:

My bother has AirPods he uses with his iPhone 7+ and does not experience this issue. We unpaired his AirPods from his phone and unpaired my AirPods from my phone. We paired his AirPods (which have never had this issue) with my phone and the issue began happening immediately. We also paired my problem AirPods with his phone and the issue did not happen at all. So, it's not an issue with AirPods, it must be an iOS issue. I don't think it's a hardware problem with my phone because the issue began happening immediately after updating to iOS 11.3 and no subsequent updates have resolved it.

his phone 11.3.1 (15E302)

my phone 11.4 (15F79)

Me too. Just got my new AirPods for Father’s Day filled with hope and joy. My son can listen to music on Pandora with an old LG phone with broken screen and technology from two different companies via Bluetooth but I can’t get the job done with IPhone 7, Apple Music and AirPods. I pulled my wired ear buds out of the garbage and guess I will use them if I want to listen to music on an airplane and have my screen off to save battery llife. I even did my 11.4 update and my Apple Music still skips like old CD’s. I feel like I am 16 again. Only watching **** on a scrambled Cinemax channel could bring me any more joy right now. I love paying premium prices for crap that doesn’t work. Great times.... I hope all the money i have given to apples built a great mothership corporate office. When the novelty of running into glass walls wear off maybe you get functionality up on 11.5. I will be on the watch for it every day so I can fix my expensive system and stop my LG Android loving sin from laughing at me.

"My son can listen to music on Pandora with an old LG phone with broken screen and technology from two different companies via Bluetooth but I can’t get the job done with IPhone 7, Apple Music and AirPods."

Haha.

You're right. If you want to listen to music via bluetooth, the only way you CAN'T do it is by using all Apple products. Either the phone or the earpieces (or both) have to be from some other company to have it work.

iPhone + third-party earpieces = OK

Android phone + Apple Airpods = OK

Android phone + third-party earpieces = OK

iPhone + Apple Airpods = NOT OK

I’ve done this and full restore without a backup. Both options work for a few days, even close to a week or so, eventually it goes back to messing up. Eventually CarPlay distorts and AirPods disconnect. The Only fix will be from Apple through iOS updates. Hope this works out for you.

Seems to happen a few moments after I put my phone back in my pocket. Same thing in music app and podcast app. Tapping the sound out icon and quickly switching back to phone speakers and then back to AirPods is enough to fix it but it is an annoyance

Got this problem too. I can only get it back to work if I take them out of my ears, wait a second and put them back in. Then I had to manually start the podcast/music again.

It happens once everytime i take them out of the case.

I'm running iOS 11.4.1 and I'm having this exact problem with my AirPods. As mentioned numerous times in this thread, disconnecting and reconnecting to the AirPods via the airplay dialog seems to temporarily fix the issue. But I've also noticed that during the lapse in audio, the music is still playing in the music app and the double tap play/pause still works. Sometimes activating siri brings it back to life.

I am having the same issues as everyone else. AirPod are about 2 weeks old. I’m running 11.4.1 on an iPhone 7+. What is frustrating is the lack of acknowledgement from Apple that I could find that this is an issue they will be addressing.

Anyone able to find news or an Apple support thread about this with a response from Apple?