iOS 7 and Audiobook Chapters

This is VERY frustrating Apple!!! Love iOS 7 for most part - and like it better the more I use it - but like many other Apple users for me listening to Audiobooks is a big part of how I use my many iOS devices (my family has 4 Macs, 4 iPads, 5+ various generation iPods including two iPod 5th gens, and two iPhone 5's ... we are an Apple family ... PLEASE FIX THIS and bring chapter view / access and scrubbing back so we all can more easily find our places and enjoy Audiobooks as they were intended to be enjoyed. Aside from that keep up the exciting work!

This is a really big problem for me.

Please Apple... listen to all these fold... bring back the chapters!

Thank you, ecdc05 - I submitted a Bug Report via the link you posted. I suggest everyone who is unhappy with the new Audiobook format do the same...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Gawd I was hoping it was me but alas no. Gee testing software seems to be lacking a regression system? Given the history of iPod and iPhone audiobook support, I hope this isn't a glint that's it's not going to be fixed anytime soon.

Bad form.

/los

Well that's all a bit of a disapointment. I listen to audio books to combat my insomnia, the fun is finding the right voice matched with the content, so no loop repeat is a bit of a bugger, usually when I wake in the early hours, I have Karl Pilkington's/anothers, calming tones to drift back of to..not this morning, just squalking seagulls...again bugger! The chapters or lack of chapters is also a bit of a bugger, no idea where I'm up to, which bits to skip over if I want. All we ask Apple, after investing in you through the thick and a lot of thin years is to put them back please. (Apple since '86 and I've taken a lot of flak over the years)

Can one go back to iOS 6?

So disppointed with the chapter loss, I use the audiobooks when I'm travelling everyday and listening just before I go to sleep. If I had know this was going to happen I definately would not have upgraded. Come on Apple fix this!!

Very disappointing step back for Apple. I expect more of them.

The Audible App still provides chapter navigation for the iPhone. Unfortunately, I do not see any way that it will work with audiobooks purchased via iTunes. Until Apple corrects their deficiency my purchases will be made from Audible.

I too found out after I had already downloaded the iOS7 about the missing chapters. Like many of you, audiobook playing is what I use the most (after calls and email), so it's very frustrating not being able to look for chapters and having to scrub through a 8+ hr file in a 1.5 in bar is, well, frustrating to say the least. Please APPLE, fix it!!

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When you look at an "iTunes" audio book it says chapters are not available... but if you download the book directly from Audible (from within the Audible app)... it shows the chapters.

It's an old rant, but why is it always too late to uninstall an update? You find something in the update that doesn't work, but can't undo your update installation. So frustrating!

As far as dealing with the loss of the chapter list, I've started using the Audible app.

This is ridiculous. I rely on my audiobooks downloaded from iTunes to keep me company during my long commute. Not only are the chapters gone, but it seems every time I leave the app, when I come back, the books starts from the beginning. WHY????? Since I don't have the ability to bookmark when I close he app, I literally have to make a note where I left off so I can scrub my way there next time. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Apple should fix this and fix it fast!

The Audible app works for me, as alll of my books are purchased from them, but you have to download the book through the app to the device, rather than sync with iTunes.

I'm sure Apple will fix this eventually.

In case you didn't pick out earlier in the thread, it is still possible to access chapter breaks using the double-arrow button (forward & backwards) on the play menu of the music app in audio book format. What doesn't seem to work for me is scrubbing within a chapter to find a location in the middle of a chapter (can not control that small a jump), or random access of chapters via a list. There doesn't seem to be a looping icon either, although I usually didn't use this feature.

By the way, I don't get the chapters in the Audible App either if the files are from my iTunes library.

I'd expect Apple to restore the chapter list, and the chapter scrubbing as there is list icon for that feature and plenty of room on that page. It clear this is a needed feature and doesn't have any negative impact visually or in any other way I can see.