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wi1dstar

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Sep 18, 2012
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I’ve been experiencing two issues since getting my phone:

1) dropping Bluetooth connections- I’ve had both my AirPods and Bose headphones drop their Bluetooth connections randomly while listening to music and then reconnect. This continues to happen multiple times.

2) flashing when sending a text message- when I send a text the screen will flash, almost like the screen refresh rate is so slow you can see it refreshing to put the delivered/read notifications in there.

Anyone experiencing these? I installed the device we new, not from a backup.
 
Yes to the Bluetooth drops.

While driving around today in my car, it would stop or loose connection. I would hit play again and it would play over the phone speakers for a couple seconds and then reconnect to my car.

I would like to assume this is software/iOS related.
 
Listening to my Powerbeats Pro last night the music was choppy and did the same through the Bluetooth dongle in my car today but eventually settled down and worked.

I believe it's iOS 13. In addition to the Bluetooth issue my Lyft Driver app was borderline unusable today because the turn-by-turn just would not update real time. It would hang a bit and then suddenly catch up.
 
Sorry to hear that. I would recommend you call Apple so that they can get their engineers working on a fix. Also you could ask them if it has been brought to their attention, already. They tend to blame other manufacturer devices though but if you have the possibility to try with multiple Bluetooth devices, that should convince them.
 
I had it just randomly loose LTE connection earlier? Restarted phone and it came right back like nothing was wrong.

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Hopefully 13.1 will fix it. I have only connected to my Apple Watch Series 3, Beats Pill, and my car. No drops yet and I’m on iOS 13 on my Pro Max
 
Glad to hear others have found Bluetooth problems on 13.0. I’ve had trouble with AirPods and Bose headphones so it’s definitely Apple/iOS related not other manufacturers. I’ll try and video what I’m seeing on iMessages, it’s only on the light setting and doesn’t appear when on dark mode.
 
I’m on 13.1 beta 4, the random LTE and Bluetooth drops are not fixed in this version.
 
The LTE drops may never get fixed. It was a problem with the Xs and Xs Max due to poor antenna design. Nothing has changed in that regards to the 11 Pro and Pro Max.
 
Listening to my Powerbeats Pro I had a few Bluetooth drop outs on 13.1 B4, so definitely not fixed yet.
 
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