Audio playback stuttering/skipping iOS11.4

I hear ya. There are so many variables and versions. I have only been able to test on iPhone 6, 6s and X and they have all worked perfectly when charged and it has now been several days. Having said that, who knows what the next day may bring.

I also have this issue though for me this happens more when I'm using the headphone jack on my iPhone 6s. The issue is not as noticeable when using Bluetooth earphones.

I understand that Apple are pushing away from the headphone jack but I still use mine. It would be nice to get it fixed

This stuttering/skipping has been an issue on my iphone 6s for about 3 months. I've updated the latest software each time an update is available (currently 11.4.1) to no avail. It started with music, which I could deal with but then it started happening on calls. I was ok (albeit VERY irritated) but today I discovered it is what others hear when I am talking to them! I use my phone for my professional job, and it is becoming EXTREMELY problematic. Nothing like have the last 3 words of an important message from my VP get cut off as I hear him skipping/stuttering. Seriously, is there a fix for this or one in the works? Apple, HELP US.

What exactly is an iTunes restore? I backed everything up with iTunes, then did a restore as new phone (manually added back music / apps / contacts from scratch). Audio still skipping for calls, music etc. What did you do differently? Use a backup for the restore?

Oh no problem!

However, I’m not sure if my problem was actually due to my music files possibly being bad(?) since I had such the experience trying to redownload them back onto my phone.

Many of the posts on here talk about podcasts/Spotify/pandora and whatnot having the issue. I don’t use any of those apps, so I don’t know necessarily if my fix will help those u.u

I have been experiencing this same issue and the best way I can describe it is that it starts while I’m playing music while the iPhone is still awake and sounds like a distorted CD scratch in which it jumps

Now it can sound different when I lock it because along with the jump it also jumps or sounds as if it totally stopping like a dragging sound where it sounds like a total ring.

Then there’s more how it acts when it’s asleep or awake in my pocket is more of a random mix of all these issues combined happening at the same time

It totally drives me crazy and the sad part was this was my iPhone that I just not even a month just finished paying it off and I was like Really I buy the phone thinking that I’m gonna score and see all this junk going on which is ridiculous

So please Apple can you Fix This

I have a Apple 7 128 with 11.4.1 Sortware

iPhone 7 plus doing the same thing.

Anyone remember when technology just worked? I'm starting to forget. Particularly with Apple as the ease of the Apple ecosystem working together is supposed to be the big draw for their overpaid hardware and copy cat services.

Now is seems for every "innovation" that no one asked for, they break 5 things that people use daily.

I read your reply with interest. I found this forum a while ago and I am one of the early posters. The issue with my phone. The issue with my iPhone 7, IOS 11.4.1 occurs when I’m using the hands-free in the car on the phone as well as when I am listening to any sort of music via Spotify, music via SiriusXM or ESPN podcast. It can happen two or three times in a few minutes or it may not happen for a day or so. I think what is upsetting so many people is a lack of acknowledgment on the part of Apple that this is an issue. There’ve been so many issues over the years – antennagate, bendgate etc. that it would seem unlikely that this problem has not come to the radar of Apple such that an acknowledgment would be made.

As a consumer and an Apple product user for many years, it is really annoying when a problem is supposed to be solved by all the routine recommendations like restoring etc. without the problem truly being acknowledged.

At one point I thought this was a ploy to get people to buy the newer phones but even people with 8’s and X’s are experiencing this issue.

Yeah, mine is not just a music-related audio issue. This is phone calls, FaceTime, camera/video, music, apps etc. iPhone 8, with latest software updates. The phone is basically dead or skipping anything related to sound.

Hi @Naroxas, I don’t normally post on these channels either. However, this issue has been persistent, nor is it the only example of upgrades introducing bugs where previously functionality was perfectly good. Furthermore, over time Apple has emphasized the multipurpose and concurrent capabilities of iPhones and iPads, particularly as a personal media centre. I don’t know about you, but there are some of us that spent a fair amount of time hunting out vinyl with no scratches or dust before playing on dampened platters, with perfect diamond styli. Who were prepared to debate the pros and cons of which sampling rate was best for CDs, who were prepared to fork out silly sums of money for acccurate CD players. There are also some of us who have been real time software developers, have written UNIX network device drivers, object oriented languages, artificial intelligence systems and logistics routing software, as well as systems capable of running multi-million pound businesses. So when I comment on poor programming and testing it comes from a background of software development, not some vague experience of having opened a word processing program once or twice in my life. Finally, I have been using Apple Macs since 1984 - yes it was a twin disk classic. I have have owned various iPods since the series 1, so when Apple break software that has been operating pretty much perfectly well for a significant number of years and do nothing obvious to acknowledge/patch/fix it over a couple releases I got peeved.

Thank you! We’re just the tip of the iceberg. And I don’t think it’s that Apple doesn’t care about its customers, but it’s maddening that they refuse to acknowledge it’s a problem. It’s also frustrating to hear users have tried every method of restart, reboot, reset to factory settings, iCloud backup, iTunes backup, etc etc and nothing works.

Same problem here. Noticed on upgrade of OS. I thought it was maybe related to the orientation, since it’s most often noticeable when upside down in my pocket and walking around.

Maybe, maybe not. Glad to know it’s not just my device; sad to hear that there’s zero response from Apple on even acknowledging this is an issue.

Considering the I pod was what brought apple to fame, and that iTunes is such a huge market place for music, it's hilarious they can't even get the audio to work. Between that and the built-in obsolescence (ie older i phones are designed to sow down with age to force users to replace) sadly it's time for a 1+ or an android based device.

True. Given that Bluetooth audio is 1/2 quality, and newest iPhones have no headphone jack, I almost gave up. Got an SE instead and wanted to wait for them to drop lightning port since wireless charging is common now and there’s been no need to connect iPhone to a computer for at least a couple of years, I thought I’d wait until they figured it out.

But with current audio issues, I’m leaning towards android within 2 months now.

Come on Apple! Sort this out please!!! Ridiculous that I can’t listen to music without it stuttering. I have to close every other app and it improves for a few minutes, before returning to the stuttering/speeding up before crashing. Seems to me it’s a memory/RAM issue.

Running 11.4.1 - everything was fine before. I knew I shouldn’t have upgraded!!!!

Please fix this. If an Apple device can’t play tunes, what’s the point?