For a few weeks now, my Airpods have started doing this funny thing where they'll begin crackling a bit, the latency will increase, crackle another bit, increase the latency, rinse and repeat until they give a big "brrrrr..." that fades out and leaves me without audio until I wait a few seconds or reconnect them. Sometimes this happens within the space of a second or two and without the "brrr...", so I just randomly lose audio.

For a few weeks now, my iPhone has started doing this thing where the haptic motor gives up. Entirely. No haptic feedback at all until I restart my phone.

When these two things coincide (and they do, fairly often), I'm left not knowing whether something's crashed (VoiceOver does that often enough), my phone's battery just gave up the ghost, or something else equally inscrutable.

You know what's coming right?

Oh what an outrage it would be if this affected sighted users as often and severely as it affects blind users! Oh what deafening noise would be made! But ehh, it's just blind people.

Obligatory: I've tried turning it off and on again. Resetting both devices (this particular phone is barely over a year old).