How to stop screen lighting up between tracks

Good afternoon Jesper,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

I understand you have your iPhone 7 locked, but the iPhone lights up between tracks when you are listening to Apple Music or Google Play.

Did you update to iOS 13.2.3 or iPhone 13.3? Are you saying this did not happen in iOS 12?

Are you streaming music or are you listening to music you have already downloaded for offline listening? Just to confirm, this is happening in both apps, is that right?

Here are a few preliminary steps you can take to address this:

• Make sure you have the most current iOS version. Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Quit both apps. How to force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Restart the iPhone to refresh it and reestablish a connection to the internet.
• You can adjust the amount of time that passes before the iPhone goes to sleep in the Settings app. Tap Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock
• In the Display & Brightness settings, you can reduce the iPhone brightness to conserve battery.
• Toggle off cellular data for Music
• Open the Music app only and test.
• Test with music that is downloaded for offline listening vs. music that is streaming (now via Wi-Fi). Add and download music and video content from the Apple Music catalog

Please reply to this thread with the additional information requested, and I'll do my best to help you with this!

Take care.

Hi

I'm facing this issue also since several updates and regret ever updating. I am listening in my car with AUX and after every new song the screen goes on. Really annoying and this bug exists already since various updates. If you listen to music via bluetooth everything works fine. Face the same issue even if I listen to music with the Beats In Ear.

Yesterday I factory reset my iPhone with 13.3, took a few albums from my iTunes library and: everything works fine! No more light coming on. That’s the good news. The (maybe not so) bad news is that this bug stills lurks somewhere in the firmware. After setting up all my apps and settings it was back. So I made another factory reset. Then I set up everything step by step, apps, settings and regularly made backups and checked if the light stays off. I hope that I will find the event/setting that triggers this behavior. If I do I will report it here. If some else finds it - please report!

RMDBXSAE

Hi! I just contacted Apple phone support because I have the same issue as "Jesper Hall". The light comes on with every new track when I'm on headphone via the 1/8" jack or Lighting. It does not seem to happen when I use the internal speaker, though.

The Apple support asked me to follow the steps you provide in your reply, but they don't work for me. So is this an intended behavior or is this more like a bug?

I spend a lot of time listening to music and I like to have my phone laying in front of me so I can see notifications. This feature/bug makes it necessary to cover the phone because otherwise I feel constantly distracted by the light that comes on with every new track.

If this is a bug.. will there be a fix soon? Or if this a feature.. why didn't Apple implement an option switch to disable it?

Best regards,

RoguePlanet

Hi,

none of those tips solved the problem. The Lightup also comes with locally added music from my itunes-library (simply playing music).

(config: iphone 8, catalina ... all updates made).

it's getting extremely on my nerves, especially when i nightdrive my car listening to music from the iphone ... every 5 minutes i have brightlight in the dark car ... not so nice, when you are an unexperienced driver!

tuning down the brightness-setting of the iphone is NOT a solution. not even a trick.