New GarageBand Update Features // What’s New?

New GarageBand Update Features You NEED to Know

GarageBand for iOS version 2.3.17 has arrived and while the App Store says this is just a bug fix and stability update, there’s actually quite a bit more to it than that...

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[PeteJohnsMusic]

Excellent quick and yet thorough video Patrick. My video on this will likely be "go watch Patrick". No... seriously. It might be 30 seconds.

[ProfessorHumblesDelusions]

You’re still one of the only sources of helpful Garbage Band information on YouTube. ❤ Thx.

[jayrocknurse]

I enjoy and use the majority of the things that you so happily teach me. Thanks. Keep them coming.

[anamilena]

I wish an update came with a major fix to the orchestral sounds, particularly the strings, which don't sound quite well. I do celebrate, though, that the bugs related to switching drummers and the stuck notes have been solved! 🙂 Thank you for the video! As always, super informative!

[paulychilds]

Sadly, I've only experienced problems with the update and see no improvement to features I used frequently.

The context menu has been reordered, so years of muscle memory means I repeatedly hit delete when I want to edit a track.


The undo button appears to have been removed from the piano roll for drums.

And the app now crashes if I try to load songs where I used the Sensual Sax plugin on more than one track.

That last one is particularly galling as I'd been working on a cover version of Duran Duran's Rio and id worked particularly hard on the sax solo. Now I can't even access the song at all without removing Sensual Sax. I have the same issue for a couple more songs that use au plugins, but I forget which right now.

[WyattLite-n-inn]

Thanks for the video . I wonder if that new update for zip files will also work in Logic Pro for iPad?

[DebBeno]

i literally haven’t used garageband in weeks because no sound comes out of it at all

[TheAngel]

There is a problem with my GarageBand, when I pass an audio to the sampler, it doesn't import the audio to the sampler and the sound of the sampler remains the same. How do I fix it?

[fearlessdaveandthetsuanami]

My Irig won’t work with the new version, when I click the old monitor button it just has two options input source and noise gate. My guitar will not come through no matter what those are set to.

[evelynboland]

I am still getting the issue where switching away from garageband while recording stops the recording. Im on 2.3.17

[goldenkingl]

For some reason I’m not able to adjust the attack please help!

[foodanimefan]

I was making music last night and the app was going a little crazy.

[wakingstate]

IOS really needs a way to export stem files.

[ricardomilice]

This is more like a bug fix, But if they happen to read this, Can we get a drag and drop wave files for the sequencer.

[walnutjosiah]

I have an error where I go to one of my songs it’s says can’t load song because I need to update. My phones already updated. I’m stuck and I need help

[callmericardo]

I’m scared to use the sampler because every time I used it in a project, it would crash GarageBand when I tried to open the project again later. Have you ever experienced that?

[XanderElion]

I’m still running iOS 17.4.1 and I’m still skeptical about updating to iOS 18. Did they ever fix the issue that prevents you from pinching/zooming in while using the Magic Trackpad?

[gaven]

what i dont like about this update is that they reordered the context menu options and that midi sequences (idk what to call them) now have thinner notes, and a bug i experience a lot is when i disconnect my bluetooth headphones after using garageband with them, it stops outputting audio and sometimes gives me an error saying "Core Audio is not available."

[erlomusic]

I really hope an online version just like BandLab I'm a windows and android user, but a could provee the garageband on iPad and it was really useful 😢

[Winked]

The big problem for me with GarageBand for iOS is that it disables the earphones when you record using the inbuilt microphone. So I can’t hear what I am inputting via the inbuilt mic as I record it. Nor can I hear the tracks already recorded to play along with them. Unplug the earphones, and every new track is muddied by the sounds of the other tracks playing through the iPad’s speakers as you record. Googling the issue simply gave me access to lots of similarly frustrated musicians with the same problem. The only work around I could find involved a Steinberg DAW, a studio mike and meters of cables and adaptors, so recording outside my newly bulky home setup became out of the question. Is there a better work around? Any news on whether Apple might fix this limitation, as it effectively disables iPad GarageBand recording for any acoustic artists.