iOS 18: AirPods won’t auto restart music after announcing a notification

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iOS 18: AirPods won’t auto restart music after announcing a notification

Since updating to iOS 18 I experience the following issue: My AirPods reduce the volume of my music when announcing a notification (till here the behavior is as expected) but then they pause the music instead of increasing the volume back to normal. So every time I have to manually restart the playback. I Cannot believe that Apple has not fixed this error in one of the last 2 incremental updates of iOS 18. This never happened with any iOS before!

Device: iPhone 14 Pro

iOS: 18.0, 18.0.1 and 18.1

AirPods: 3 and 4 ANC

Possible solutions I tried (but no success):

turn on the vocal shortcuts feature and turn it off again
turn off the head movement feature
restart iPhone

It's a shame that this is the user experience for brand new 200€ headphones (Airpods 4 ANC). Please let me know if anyone knows how to fix this.

iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on Oct 31, 2024 2:54 PM

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Johannfromde

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Nov 4, 2024 9:49 PM in response to TimBX

since iOS 18 the problem is current

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Waltatta

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Nov 7, 2024 11:36 PM in response to TimBX

Apple Please figure this out. It forces me to deactivate notifications over my AirPods Pro 2.

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anskyrr

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Nov 15, 2024 12:36 AM in response to TimBX

Same issue 18.1 please fix this

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Nov 17, 2024 12:53 AM in response to TimBX

I think I found the issue. I had sound recognition enabled and for some reason it pauses media after an announcement is made or after reading a text message. The bug is still present. To fix it, I had to go to

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition, then turn OFF Sound Recognition.

Once I did that, I would still get the announcement or my texts read but the music would continue playing.

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