ios 26 arbitrarily music/stream pausing

Hello,


Wondering if anyone has been able to fix this on their own without waiting for some sort of patch?


I feel like I have done everything on my end such as: restarting iphone, reinstall apps, making sure background apps are set to “ on”.


It happens to every app I have used that can play or stream- spotify, youtube, twitch etc.

So I don’t think it’s a case of updating apps, but have made sure they are all up to date anyway.


I will usually just have it play put loud or on my speaker and go about my business and it will then pause at random.


The only two things I have not done so far, are change sleep/idle settings or completely reset.


I suspect the idle/sleep is what is causing this since I see others with the update notice the pausing happening while switching apps?



I would prefer not to use the factory reset even if I can trust my data remaining. Never had to do that with any updates previously, and think this may not fix the issue at all.


Hopefully a new patch comes up soon for this. My spouse was loving the update and encouraged me to do it, and now I am running into this 😂


I am also here to see how many more are running into this. Just trying to play my podcast while multi-tasking with other things and notice it going silent.

iPhone 15 Pro

Posted on Oct 10, 2025 10:25 AM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2025 10:41 AM

Do you use Facebook? If so there is a known issue with FB causing audio playing to stop. It affects virtually any app. FB developers (Meta) released an update for the issue October 7, 2025. Some users report having to delete FB, restart their device, and install the updated app for the fix to work. As always, backup your device and apps before deleting things.

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Oct 10, 2025 10:41 AM in response to Mill5942

Do you use Facebook? If so there is a known issue with FB causing audio playing to stop. It affects virtually any app. FB developers (Meta) released an update for the issue October 7, 2025. Some users report having to delete FB, restart their device, and install the updated app for the fix to work. As always, backup your device and apps before deleting things.

ios 26 arbitrarily music/stream pausing

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