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December 18, 2025
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Intermittent AirPlay Bug as of iOS 26.2

  • December 18, 2025
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Is anyone in Sonos support aware of the following intermittent AirPlay bug that has been introduced as of iOS 26.2? There appear to be quite a few people experiencing it, including me on two independent, physically disjoint Sonos systems.

While it is likely to be a bug introduced on the Apple side of the connection, with networking you never know for sure, so perhaps Sonos support should reach out to Apple about it.

AirPlay Bug Report on Reddit

Dave Ings

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    Over in the Reddit forum where this issue is being discussed, it was just reported that the issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 beta 3 - so most of us should just wait for 26.3 to be released.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1pml8f0/airplay_bug_in_ios_262/

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    Luigi408
    Contributor II
    January 15, 2026

    I’m having the same issue. I’ve reported it to Apple since beta testing 26.2 and no fix yet. I did receive a message from Apple saying this was fixed in the latest update (my guess 26.3 beta which I am testing) but the issue still not resolved.

      schmittyij
      Lyricist I
      January 16, 2026

      Same issue here. Every track change goes silent. Move 2 w/ Apple Music. Very frustrating.

        Jeremy D Tuck
        Lyricist II
        January 27, 2026

        Hi 

        I tested iso 26.2.1 in the hope this was resolved (mainly because there wasn’t much detail on what the ‘bug fixes’ in the release were) but unfortunately this remains unresolved.  Now all I can hope for is 26.3

         

        Thought I would update you in case you were hoping it fixed the issue.

         

        J

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        Avid Contributor I
        January 28, 2026

        ​@Jeremy D Tuck 

        Thank you so much for the test and your feedback.

        Kind regards.

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          Avid Contributor I
          January 28, 2026

          Hello again,

          I have one question, is the issue appears also with a Sonos system connected with an Ethernet cable ?

          Kind regards.

          ingsAuthorAnswer
          Enthusiast II
          February 2, 2026

          Over in the Reddit forum where this issue is being discussed, it was just reported that the issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 beta 3 - so most of us should just wait for 26.3 to be released.

          https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1pml8f0/airplay_bug_in_ios_262/

          Dave Ings

            Jeremy D Tuck
            Lyricist II
            February 15, 2026

            Hello - I have upgraded to 26.3 and this bug seems to have been solved.  Tested it out several times yesterday and it played all tracks consistently, allowed me to intersperse “next up” tracks and continued playing.    I’ll post again if there are any hiccups but this seems resolved! 🥳

              Jeremy D Tuck
              Lyricist II
              February 15, 2026

              Hello again,

              I have one question, is the issue appears also with a Sonos system connected with an Ethernet cable ?

              Kind regards.

              to be fair it doesn’t seem to care how your Sonos system is connected, but instead how airplay is sent to your system (which is over wifi).  Bluetooth, for example, to the same speaker works well, but you can only do one at a time.  But the good news is, following a previous post I made, that iOS 26.3 seems to have sorted this bug out!

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              Avid Contributor I
              February 17, 2026

              Hello - I have upgraded to 26.3 and this bug seems to have been solved.  Tested it out several times yesterday and it played all tracks consistently, allowed me to intersperse “next up” tracks and continued playing.    I’ll post again if there are any hiccups but this seems resolved! 🥳

              Many thanks for your feedback.

              Enjoy listening 😉😉😉

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                Avid Contributor I
                March 2, 2026

                Hello Everyone,

                I have had the same problem today, just one time but one time more.

                This is really frustrating.

                Kind regards.

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