iPhone music skipping on Spotify and SoundCloud through bluetooth

Over the last couple weeks, I’ve noticed my music on Spotify has been skipping 5-20seconds in a song every couple mins. Through my headphones, and in my car. Whenever using Bluetooth.

Today it got progressively worse and would just scan through songs entirely and not stay on a single song for more than 2 seconds.

I switched to SoundCloud thinking maybe Spotify was the issue. Nope, even worse, would switch entire playlists after 15 seconds.

I thought maybe it was a motion issue with my Apple Watch while working out? But all settings don’t seem to point that way.

is something going on with the newest update to IOS 18?

this is SO frustrating. I pay a lot of money for my music subscriptions and I can’t even use them.

I’ve restart everything as I’ve seen suggested but nothing is working

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