GarageBand crashes on iOS after I press ok on the Using Bluetooth pop up button

It’s the Audio Unit Extensions, if you have a session(s) that you aren’t using the Extensions, those open with Bluetooth just fine and then you can simply switch to the session(s) that have the extension(s) activated and complete your project. If you don’t want it to keep crashing for that session when you open it directly while using Bluetooth then you have to turn off or delete the extension from your Plug-Ins and EQ for that specific session. The extension that was causing me problems was the Magic Dice (Baby Audio) extension. For some reason it got deleted , I guessed it happened with the new update as I recently updated to the new IOS. And when I reinstalled it, the audio extension, that is when that specific session started crashing repeatedly when I kept trying to open with Bluetooth audio as my output. I simply deleted the extension from my Plug-Ins & EQ and now it opens and works with Bluetooth with no problems. Hope this helps.

It’s the Audio Unit Extensions, if you have a session(s) that you aren’t using the Extensions, those open with Bluetooth just fine and then you can simply switch to the session(s) that have the extension(s) activated and complete your project. If you don’t want it to keep crashing for that session when you open it directly while using Bluetooth then you have to turn off or delete the extension from your Plug-Ins and EQ for that specific session. The extension that was causing me problems was the Magic Dice (Baby Audio) extension. For some reason it got deleted , I guessed it happened with the new update as I recently updated to the new IOS. And when I reinstalled it, the audio extension, that is when that specific session started crashing repeatedly when I kept trying to open with Bluetooth audio as my output. I simply deleted the extension from my Plug-Ins & EQ and now it opens and works with Bluetooth with no problems. Hope this helps.

Same for me on an iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 26. When I remove the ipods I don’t have the problem.

My frustration is it’s a Bluetooth issue so I have always used my AirPods prior to the iOS update but now I suddenly have to buy headphones for this to not happen is a smidge frustrating. Or as Apple told me to reset my phone completely and go back to ios18 til they fix the issues

It’s happening with mine too IOS26 Bluetooth I use Apple AirPods click ok and then completely crashes Apple told me to revert to iOS 18 but I’m not resetting my phone just to have this issue i haven’t had any issues other than this with iOS 26 I did install the iOS 26.0.1 update same issue It’ll work maybe for a minute but then once it crashes once you can never reopen it with Bluetooth again without it crashing constantly. Frustrating to say the least.

Hi all, this issue seems to be resolved, at least for me, after installing the latest update to IOS 26 today. I manually checked “software update” today and there is one.

iOS update to 26.1 fixed this issue for me! 🎉

I’m having this same issue. I have an iPhone 15 pro, and when I updated to IOS26, the warning popped up and when I clicked it I crashed. I tried deleting and reinstalling, and it didn’t work, and just deleted all my recordings. It works perfectly fine when I’m not using Bluetooth.

This issue is definitely not resolved per the other comments. I just got a brand new Iphone Pro 17 with a fully new install of garageband and it has these precise issues. It crashes as soon as i say ok to that message and it has never crashed like this before on previous iphones/ios for me. it is entirely consistent when using bluetooth which is awful considering I’m a music producer and need to finish some work this month..

I’m having the same problem using an iPhone 15pro max. Very frustrating.

本当に早く治して欲しい。仕事に影響する。今回のアップデートは改悪だと思っています。Apple使うの潮時かな。

Same issue on my 13 ProMax with AirPod Pro. No issue until updated to iOS 26

This is exactly my experience and I was just raving about how cool ios 26 is apple yeah y’all need to clear this up