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5 points

Shuffle on iOS 6 - partial fail

I always use shuffle at work, listening to my songs in whatever order they play. In iOS 5 this worked perfectly fine. In iOS 6, I definitely have an issue. If the Music app is closed, instead of playing the "next" random song, it goes back to a previously played random song and resumes from there.

So, for instance, I'm listening and it plays randomly selected tracks 1 through 10, like:

1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 -> 10

Then then next time I start to shuffle, it would start at some track in the middle and "resume", like:

6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 -> 10 -> 11 -> 12 ...

So there is definitely something weird going on. The Music app is losing track, no pun intended, of where it last left off. It then goes on and hits the exact same "randomly" chosen tracks again.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 8:06 AM

44 replies

Feb 28, 2013 12:28 PM in response to Heidern

Heidern wrote:

I have a Verizon iPhone 5 that I got at launch, so it definitely affects current hardware as well as previous iterations.

Oh, then I stand corrected on that point! 😊

xSarahx

Level 1

6 points

Mar 4, 2013 4:32 PM in response to Heidern

Hi, I'm having this same problem. I have a 4S and it's all updated to the most recent software. I've wiped and re-added my music and still having this issue. It's just annoying. Has anyone contacted support about this?

duckdive

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Mar 10, 2013 5:15 PM in response to xSarahx

Still not a single real solution offered?

Seriously, the upgrade from ios5 to ios6 is by far the very worst upgrade. It added nothing of any significant value.

The noticeable changes are:

-Shuffle on iphone malfunctioning.

-All images sent as email attachments now send with the file name "photo.jpg"

-Phone must be jailbroken in order to integrate contacts with google maps.

xSarahx

Level 1

6 points

Mar 17, 2013 7:32 AM in response to duckdive

Has anyone figured this out? Should I call AppleCare?

xSarahx

Level 1

6 points

Mar 26, 2013 6:20 PM in response to xSarahx

Anybody?

Akeems

Level 1

0 points

Apr 21, 2013 9:19 PM in response to xSarahx

Yes if you have applecare please call and let us know what they say

May 16, 2013 9:40 PM in response to Heidern

I've been having this problem for months, finally decided to look it up. Disappointed that all I got were more people having this problem since October and literally no fix for it. Cool. Thanks, Apple. 😠

airj3r

Level 1

4 points

Jun 20, 2013 2:31 PM in response to pmartin89

Same here! Ugh!!

Jun 21, 2013 12:45 PM in response to Heidern

Same problem here. I agree. Ugh!!

baggiero

Level 1

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Sep 13, 2013 4:27 AM in response to Heidern

Still broken as of September 2013. Any correlation with number of tracks or amount of space left on the iPhone? (I regularly have very little spare on the phone and 1,500 tracks+) - maybe the Music player runs out of space to persist the "last-played track" marker).

It's very clear and reproduceable behaviour - play random, skip forward a couple of tracks. Stop playing. Dble-click home button, press-and-hold in the apps-listing slider, hit ➖ to stop the player, click home button. Restart player and press play. Guess what, back to the track you first thought of ...

APPLE APPLE APPLE - at least tell us that you've fixed it in IOS7 ..!

airj3r

Level 1

4 points

Sep 13, 2013 6:11 AM in response to baggiero

I'm curious to know if this has been fixed in ios7 as well. For the time being I've been using Groove music player to generate random playlists every time I listen to music.

s-jay1

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Jan 28, 2014 2:14 AM in response to Heidern

If anyone is still having this problem and for anyone in the future who looks at this thread, try this

http://www.daigo.org/2010/06/how-to-stop-iphones-music-from-shuffling/

airj3r

Level 1

4 points

Jan 28, 2014 11:31 AM in response to s-jay1

That's not the problem we're all having here.

To answer my own question from above. This still happens in iOS 7.

Jan 28, 2014 1:07 PM in response to airj3r

No fix in iOS 7 for me. As far as I'm concerned, Shuffle, a feature introduced by Apple and upon which they based one of their own devices, is a defunct feature on my iPhone. I've given up and moved on to a third-party music app.

Shuffle on iOS 6 - partial fail