iOS 26.0.1 update causes music and video to pause when switching tabs or opening apps

MorsCrowfood wrote:

After I updated to iOS 26.0.1 a few days ago, my music does this weird thing where it keeps pausing whenever I’m switching between tabs or just simply opening a new app, it is so annoying. There’s no music or video playing either on the tabs I switch to, it just pauses my music for no apparent reason at all. Not just music, it also pauses any YouTube video that I’ve got playing in the background. Do I need to change something in the settings or is it a bug?

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Original Title: Music keeps pausing whenever switching between tabs or simply opening a new app. Is there a fix to this?

I experience this issue yesterday, what is weird though I used google maps going to a location and everything worked, but using the map coming back home it paused my music when giving directions.

This could be a bug, not sure if there is any settings to change.

Perhaps a force restart Force restart iPhone - Apple Support might help.

But let Apple know here Product Feedback - Apple

PnkyShi wrote:

Same here. It’s incredibly annoying…even after I updated the youtube music app to the latest version, it’s still happening. iOS 26 is extremely buggy all around

and did you use the link to provide Apple feedback?

I use YT music as well, seems to only pause when going to social media apps and maps, no issues on other apps.

Same here. It’s incredibly annoying…even after I updated the youtube music app to the latest version, it’s still happening. iOS 26 is extremely buggy all around

For some reason anytime I use you tube switch to a different app nd switch back it restarts the video or when I’m using shonen jump and go to a different app it goes back to page 1. I use these apps a lot so it’s a little annoying anyone else having these kinds of issues?

Thought i was the only one with this problem. Even thought it was the Brave browser causing it. Switched to Safari and Chrome, hoping the issue would go away, but it never did.