Audio playback stuttering/skipping iOS11.4

I think he means 11.4 rather than the beta 11.4.1, Its definitely got worse with 11.4 in respect to lightning adaptor usage, I have problems during calls as I like to use headphones and whilst running I plug the phone into a treadmill to play music from a radio app, both are problematic but calls seem worse, but maybe that's because I spend more time making calls? Anyway it's bugging me constantly checking if software updates have been released to hopefully rectify this nonsense, I never did that on my Samsungs....

I thought the problem was solved by moving to the beta version. Everything was good for about a week but just today with an ESPN podcast. It started happening again with the skipping etc. This was in the car using a Belkin adapter which is Apple approved. Here we go again.

yep, I noticed skipping in my Audible app and distortion and skipping in my music. I'm on iphone 6+ and use my music to escape the reality of cubicle life. I honestly thought it was my plug in ear buds messing up, and I needed to get the wireless ones. I finally had enough and googled it. I'm updated to 11.4 and it's just getting worse.

C'MON APPLE. FIX THE PROBLEM.

Same issue on my iPhone 6 after updating to 11.4 . Whenever I play a song on the music app and lock my phone, it pauses for a couple of seconds and then resumes with these jarring distorted echoing/popping noises. Totally ruins the music listening experience. Also happens during phone calls sometimes but not very frequently. Tried all the things that you did. Did not help. Apple really needs to look into this.

I mean, I contacted Apple Support about it numerous times and it always sounded like it was the first they were hearing of it. I would even tell them that there are lots of people with the same problem according to the forums...

REALLY hope this fixes itself soon. Apple seems to think it's a hardware problem I'm having and they want me to buy a new phone, but it seems odd that so many other people would be having the same issue.

So far it has not happened on my iPhoneX, but happens all the time on a year or two old iPad Pro with all downloaded music. NO WAY am I upgrading any iPad to get music to work. C'mon Apple! My music played just fine on an iPod. I believe the first iPod was released in 2001.....17 years ago. So here we are in 2018 having issues trying to play music on devices that make the iPod seem stone age. Not a hardware problem!

I have the same problem on my Iphone 7.

Music becomes distorted during periods when it is played.

Conversations on the phone are also distorted.

This all happend after updating to IOS 11.3 an IOS 11.4 have not solved the problem.

Me too - iPhone 6S with 11.4 -> I've done a hard restart (had to as my phone just froze on me the other day) - nothing has fixed it. When it happens during a phone call it's particularly disturbing, and then just really annoying with my music.

That's encouraging. But what about the podcasts app? I am experiencing the audio issue when listening to podcasts too. And Instagram videos. And other people here have experienced this issue with phone calls.

Sorry couldn’t help on that. I only have problem with the Apple Music apps. You might want to address them the issue directly on the apple support. I don’t think they ever notice the discussion here. Tho i did link them this discussion yesterday. Hope they paid attention on this.

all the sudden having this issue as well, noticed it on carplay on my 2017 VW passat. I only use apple music and pocket casts. Im hoping iOS 12 will resolve this but its driving me crazy. Weird ting is i have been running 11.4 for awhile and then a few weeks ago it just stated to happen out of the blue.

I have an iPhone 7 and this also started several months ago for me with iOS 11.3. Like everyone else, no update since has fixed it. I've restarted apps and fully restored the phone.

At this point I have had two live chats online and a fact-to-face conversation with a member of staff in an Apple store. Nobody will acknowledge that it is a recognised problem but they say it's bound to be addressed in the next update. It never is.

Being able to play music is as important a function as anything to me. My loyalty to Apple is being sorely tested for the first time ever.

I agree. I use my music to keep me sane while I sit in my cubicle 10+ hours a day. And I use Audible for the commutes. If this many people are having the exact same issue, which started at the exact same time, then it's a problem and needs to be acknowledged by Apple. I've been loyal to Apple since the first iPod came out. I don't need a new phone-I got the 6SPlus with the largest amount of memory you could get BECAUSE of the amount of music I have. It really ****** me off that they seem to be trying to force everybody to buy new phones.

I applied for the Beta testing, and it's been a while since I backed up my phone. I had to update my iTunes on my laptop and it says it only backs up a few things, but apparently no apps are backed up? Plus I worry about losing all my pdfs in iBooks. Consequently, I didn't back up my phone for fear of losing things, and didn't download the new ios to see if it worked. Any suggestions to saving all the apps and pdfs in iBooks in a backup to iTunes?

I do have items saved to the cloud, but I really don't want to lose any of the info on my phone. I wish Apple hadn't screwed that up.

I appreciate the suggestion – however I've seen a couple of people have tried that already without success. I'm reluctant to install a beta version that may bring other bugs they haven't ironed out yet without any certainty it will work. I would prefer to see the problem acknowledged and fixed in a proper update.