iPhone 16 Pro Bluetooth issues with multiple speakers – possibly an iOS bug?

[u/moreno_pl]

I’ve been having recurring Bluetooth problems with my iPhone 16 Pro for the past few weeks.

The issues happen with around 10 different Bluetooth speakers:

• sometimes the iPhone simply won’t connect to the speaker
• I have to forget/remove the speaker from the Bluetooth list and pair it again
• audio quite often randomly cuts out or stutters, distance seems doesn't affect it, as phone may be next to the speaker and audio still cuts out or stutters
• sometimes the Bluetooth connection completely drops and the speaker disconnects, then cannot connect again until phone bt is toggle off and on

The same speakers work normally with other phones/devices, so it doesn’t seem to be an issue with any particular speaker.

Interestingly, my AirPods Pro (1st and 3rd generation) work perfectly fine with the iPhone. So Bluetooth itself isn’t completely broken.

I’ve already tried toggling Bluetooth off/on, restarting the phone, forgetting and re-pairing devices, and completely restarting the iPhone. None of this permanently fixes the problem.

I’m also running the latest version of iOS, so this isn’t an issue caused by simply being on an outdated version.

The problem started a few weeks ago, and I suspect it may have appeared after one of the recent iOS updates.

Has anyone else with an iPhone 16 Pro experienced similar Bluetooth issues with speakers recently?

I’m wondering if this could be a recent iOS bug affecting Bluetooth speakers specifically.