Sound cuts out intermittently

[sandman1318]

I have the iPhone 15 pro operating on iOS 17.3. I’ve been using second generation AirPods since they first came out and currently have two sets. Sometime last year I began experiencing the sound cutting out, for several seconds at a time, intermittently. Both sets of AirPods began doing it around the same time. So of course, I disconnected and reconnected them to my iPhone and have rebooted the iPhone many times. I might add that the problem happens regardless of the source from which I’m listening. The problem started when I still had my iPhone 14 Pro and now it happens on the 15 Pro. The only thing I can come up with is a possible glitch in iOS 17. I say this because it was shortly after upgrading to the new firmware last September that this started happening. Can anyone shed any light on the issue and a possible fix?