Audio playback stuttering/skipping iOS11.4

it's a shame, I had an iPod and it was the best music player, no doubt. but Apple does not care who likes to listen to music on the phone, proof of this is the absence of the headphone jack and absence of the aptx and flac codecs for bluetooth. I got an S9+ now, and my problems are over.

It‘s just ridiculous. I have bought an iPhone for ~800€, i am paying 5€ each month for Apple Music but I can’t listen to music; good Job Apple! Next time I’m going to buy an supreme brick, it’s cheaper and almost as useful as my iPhone with the current iOS...

I'm sorry, but that's only a viable solution if you want to use the bundled lightning port apple earbuds which are very average at best. I have a few hundred dollars invested in earbuds and over the ear headphones that have a 3.5mm line connection where the solution CANNOT be "buy newer (presumably wireless) headphones."

this smells of a previous effort by apple to restrict what lightning-to-aux adapters were compatible with newer iPhones - that broke the functionality of lots of third party adapters - except now they've inadvertently affected even their own OEM adapter

I've been having the same issue for around 4 months now. Operating 11.4.1, music skips using Apple Music, Amazon Music etc etc when using dongle. Music skips and distorts every few minutes.

I replaced the phone (from iPhone 7 to iPhone 7 plus)

I replaced the dongle

I replaced my earphones

STILL HAPPENS. Is it a software issue? How do you fix this, it's so f*ing annoying. Refuse to pay £159 for Apple Airpods.

I have this issue as well on my 6s. This is ridiculous that this has been going on for so long. According to every keynote since the iPod we have been told music is the soul of Apple. The fact that we have digital music, podcasts, audio-books, etc... skipping like a portable CD player is unacceptable. It is unacceptable for not only Apple but for anyone who touts high quality audio files that have worked fine since iPod Gen 1.

Please correct as soon as possible!

Thank you!

My iphone 7 has been having this issue since February. It skips and pauses in songs and audiobooks and it has started to do the same thing during phone calls within the past 2 months. It's gotten so bad that i can't hear people and they can't hear me when it starts acting up causing me to hang up and call some people back multiple times until it stops. I'm beyond words for the fact that this hasn't been fixed yet. I brought my phone in and was told there was nothing wrong with it and that the skipping and pausing and repeating phone calls must be my bad signal.... interesting.

Exactly the problem here. Many folks in this thread do not mention the part where the audio related to phone calls is affected. It's not just music/video/entertainment audio. It is all audio. Unbelievable. The phone has been turned into a camera with web browsing and little beyond that.

I have the same audio stuttering, random silence problems across all audio apps (Music, Podcasts, etc) . Running iOS 11.4.1. Been happening for 1-2 months now. Hard Resets (volume down + Power button) does not fix it. Re-installing apps does not fix it. Patiently waiting for you to send out a fix Apple.

I'm having the same exact issue with my iPhone 7. And it's gotten much worse since yesterday. I listen to music using different apps, and the issue happens with every single one of them. This includes Apple's music player (the one that comes with the iPhone), Amazon music, TuneIn Pro, etc. It's frustrating and annoying. My iPhone is also the main device I use to listen to music. Apple is really frustrating me and I've been thinking on switching to Samsung or something else.

I'm having the same issue. iPhone 6S running iOS 11.4.1, and I'm getting constant audio glitches in Apple Music, iBooks and Podcasts. Audio starts playing, stops, and then picks up again with glitches and stuttering. I will be buying an Android device for my next phone unless this is fixed in an update soon.

It happens with the Apple earphones that came with my iPhone, with my Yamaha, with my pioneer, with a pair that are very cheap that I found in my drawer, when connected to my car using Bluetooth and usb cable, etc.

I’ve been using all these devices with my iPhone 7 for over two years now (and I have used some of them them with older/previous iPhones that i have owned too) and had no problems in the past. All started when the iOS 11.4 got installed.

Read lots of replies. Adding my observation to the mix. I get this behavior with audio books in “books” and with music in “music” and podcasts in “podcasts” and probably on phone calls. I have observed it through headphones and through the speakers of my iPhone 6s. iOS is whatever is current. Curious about the question whether a clean wipe would fix this. So many me toos I’m not convinced buying a new phone would do the trick. Apple really ought fix or advise on this.

Just want to report I'm having the same issue. It's been a problem in multiple apps for months. Multiple times per day, every day the audio pauses for 1 second then starts to skip and stutter for minutes.

I have the same issue on an iPhone SE, iOS 11.4.1

It oddly seems to be affected by the phone jiggling, sometimes cueing the issue. Sometimes ending it.

I would like to hear from Apple on a fix for this. It looks like there are thousands of us wih this issue.

So I am visually impaired and I use iPhone because it’s the most user friendly without need of assistance from a sighted person to set up my accessibility needs.

One of my primary sources of entertainment is podcasts. This issue makes it difficult to listen to them which is not good for relaxing.

I hope that Apple resolves this issue soon. I’ll be honest and not threaten to leave if they don’t acknowledge/fix it because that would be a lie coming from me. But what i will say is that I will start to feel disappointed in the product and be less likely to recommend it as emphatically to others as i have in the past.