Music and Podcast app not working since iOS 7 upgrade

I'm having the exact same experience! I understand apple throwing the podcast app under the bus. But the music app? That's the heart of their business!

I updated iTunes on my Mac. I then ran an Update All on the apps I have in iTunes. The Podcast app on my iPad mini works just fine, but still doesn't work on my iphone 4. When I try to open it on the phone, a black screen opens and then closes.

My music app didn't work from the getgo on the ios7 update, but my podcast app did, that is until about an hour or two ago. Podcasts are the only way i keep from going insane at my job. I have an iPhone 4s, hopefully this will work on my iPhone 5c that should be arriving today. I also noticed that the videos app isnt working either.

Exactly the same problem here. I'd hoped that ios 7 would bring a halt to the stupid problems with the Podcasts app (for me, it was re-downloading already listened-to podcasts) but instead the app simply crashes a few seconds after opening. The Music app does the same. These are the two apps I use the most every day, so thanks a bunch Apple. Anyone recommend any alternatives? Android, I guess?

The problem was solved for me with a restore. My guess is that the iPhone had some corrupt media files that was causing the apps to crash. Restoring deleted the files and copied the correct files from my backup.

I have the iPhone 5 with iOS 7. The music app doesn't emit a single note. The car audio used sync via USB and that's stopped too. All of my songs are on iCloud. I noticed the songs simply kept scrolling. So I switched to 3G to rule out WiFi streaming issues. I deleted all apps that reference airplay or use the speakers. And then downloaded one random song to my phone form my library on iCloud/iMatch. And voila everything is working. AirPlay over wifi connected speakers is working. The phones own speakers are spouting music too. All I had to agree to was "accept" some iTunes Store conditions when I downloaded the song to the phone. The problem is I don't know which of my actions worked specifically. I hope you guys can troubleshoot your problems too.

A restore worked for me, too, in the end - although it was rather slow downloading a restore file. I guess Apple's servers are busy this weekend. Before the restore I found that anything accessing stored media would crash my iPhone 4 GSM with IOS 7, including accessing Photos and trying to access Settings/General/Usage to see how much Storage was being used and by what. iTunes reported that I was trying to use about 5 GB more storage than I had available. So, I'm guessing the initial update really messed up the media storage.

I'd already started a Restore when it was suggested here, as a last step before putting it up on eBay. Thanks.

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I have learned over the past few iPhones that I should keep min 4-5 GB free space on a 16 GB handset. iMatch and Photostream do help take off the load but then apps like Instagram and WhatsApp download and store a lot of data autonomously. I periodically delete both and reinstall. I wish there were a way to clean out the data but keep these apps.

So if I understand correctly you have reverted to iOS 6. iPhone 4 is stil a rage here and many friends have it. Should I tell them not to upgrade to iOS 7 till a patch is available?

is it possible to downgrade the firmware to the previous version so i can restore functionality to the areas i use frequently? (podcast playback via siri)...

thanks

andy

I ran a complete restore last night and everything is working perfectly now. Looks like the download of iOS 7 through Wi-Fi was a mistake.