Audio stops on airpods

I've been dealing with this very frustrating issue for awhile. Did a restore from itunes and basically everything support could think of with no luck. I recently discovered the least annoying (but still extremely annoying) way to continue the music is to double tap the airpod to bring up siri and then double tap again to cancel the siri request. I can't wait for iOS 12 to fix this. It's hard to really get into the music when I know it's gonna drop out at any second.

Yep, this issue has been going on forever and it is still a problem today. What the **** is being done about it? $230AUD for something that I spend a good portion of my time diving into my phone trying to fix. It's simply not good enough.

For christs sake, fix it.

I have this feeling too. Many times it seems to happen after I touch my iPhone and then put it back down on the desk locking the screen. After a few seconds audio stops but the music is still playing and I realized I can still control playback using double taps on the earbuds. But it could also happen just like right now when I was having a walk, I touched my phone (like change the album to play) then lock screen and put in pocket. A few seconds later audio goes silent.

Jeezus! I have the problem too but it's not that frequent. For now I can kind of live with it, it's not right but the AirPods functionality is 97% there. If it happened every ten minutes it would be junk.

I made a question on Apple stack exchange.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/334933/airpods-abruptly-go-silent-whil e-listening-to-music-from-iphone

I think I'm having the same problem as you guys. Please vote up if you have the same problem. I noticed this thread has 400 "me too"s!!!

Let's hope iOS 12 fixes it. I'm fairly sure it is a bug in iOS, not a problem with the AirPods. Because even when the sound goes silent I can still control the playback by double tapping the AirPods etc.

I’m using the AirPods on my iPhone X and iOS 12 and it never did it before but it started today and I disconnected them from my phone and reconnected them and so far it hasn’t done it. It was doing it every few seconds

Been using airpods on iOS12 for a few weeks now and I don't want to jinx it but I haven't seen this problem happen once yet. The issue was definitely at least addressed if not entirely fixed because before I would rarely (if ever) go a full hour without having to do the workaround to get them to start playing again. Fingers crossed.

Yes I has this problem but iOS 12 fixed it,some helpful hints are in this thread.i believe this is an AirPlay problem.Are you using an Apple Watch as well?That seemed to make the problem worse but it wasn’t the total cause.Try switching Airplay on/off ,to see if that helps.

In past i purcahsed a cheap phone to use for traveling and that was having same issue so i have to bear with it as that company was not reliable but now i have spent almost 2k to purcahse apple devices and facing same issue and not fixed apple should take it seriously and fix the issue we cannot bear with it and keep having stuck while on call or on run.

I managed to narrow It down two possibilities.

1) The AirPods are on some sort of always listening function so that it can hear a user say “Hey Siri” followed by the command. This kicks on more frequently when a EMS siren is on. “Hey Siri” never works so it can’t be that. I live in NYC so lots of Interfearing sounds seem to cause this to happen. Unless it’s just a conincidence of 2 and the environment sound stop hey airy from functioning correctly.

2) the data on the carrier network is so **** slow in the particular area you are that the audio streaming into your device is not buffering fast enough. I pay for unlimited data and it shouldn’t be capped as I don’t over use that much data. But still I greatly suspect this since carriers have the tech to make the data connection speed variable.

My Airpods worked perfectly but sincse a while: only phone calls do not transmit any sound. Strange thing is: it just block the call sound, all other sounds are there when I stop using the cell. When I switch to the phone itself or speaker,I can hear the normal cell phone sound

I don't know if this has been mentioned, and I'm late to the discussion, but here goes.

I was able to fix this issue by:

1) Un-pairing my AirPods from my Apple iCloud Account

2) Resetting my AirPods

3) Shutting off my Mac, my MacBook, and my iPhone (all of my iCloud devices)

4) Restarting my devices and repairing them.

Side note: I've found that wireless speakers (Sonos, etc.) caused issues with my AirPods, especially when they were playing music. I haven't been able to recreate this since iOS 13, however.

I have a similar issue. Mainly happens when my airpods are connected to my mac book pro (running the latest MacOS). Only one of the ears just stops playing sound. This however never happens to the left ear. Its annoying and odd

Same setup, same problem here. Never had any issues with my Aipods before. Updated to iOS 11.3 last night. Audio dropped at least 5 times without the AirPods losing connection.