iOS7 Lock Screen & Headphone Music Controls????

It's been an ongoing issue for me with both the Apple music player and Downcast. Power on/off works temporarily, but the problem quickly resurfaces. Headphone controls work just fine. Given that multiple apps are having this problem, I have to believe it's an iOS issue as opposed to an app-dependent one.

Another one here. Pocasts app, Music player, any ausio app, the controls simply are not working in the lock screen. Also, when coming back to the Music player after unlocking the phone, the playhead jumps.

We definitely need a patch on this one, Apple.

I'm having the same issue - it clears for a while on reboot, but comes back and it seems to be worse from the control centre than from the home screen.

Same issue for me here as well works across multiple apps also my incar controls no longer work when it happens. Very annoying I'm used to pausing my podcasts while at work to speak to people and now I can't.

Fix it apple it wasn't broken before iOS7.

I also have this issue. Switch off and back on only fixes it temporailly. Issue also occurs on Bluetooth controls as well as earphone controls.

Add me to the list of hard restarting NOT working.

I left PCs because of buggy OS issues exactly like this. I thought Apple used to be so much simpler to use but the more I invest in their products, the more frustrated I get. It seems that they have changed simple & streamlined to needlessly complicated, unintuitive and full of bugs. It sounds kinda familiar.

I just replaced my Windows Phone because of issues almost identical to this - problems with the music player, bluetooth streaming not working correctly, etc. Now almost the same issues are happening on the iPhone 5S. I expected more from Apple.

I found rebooting AND turning off Do Not Disturb from control center solves the problem.

Good news for me, the problem seems to have been fixed with iOS 7.0.3.

As I mentioned before, I was having the same problem as the original poster and many of you. On my iPhone 4s running iOS 7, the controls on the lock screen itself, as well as the play/pause and fwd/rev controls from Bluetooth devices (my car and an external speaker) would become unresponsive. Rebooting the phone would fix the problem temporarily, but it would happen again every time.

It applied to all three of the audio programs I use most, the built in Music app, Rdio's app for their streaming audio service, and Downcast, my podcast player of choice.

Since upgrading to iOS 7.0.3, the problem hasn't recurred. There have also been a couple of bug-fix updates to Downcast. It seems very unlikely to me that Downcast could somehow trigger the problem that would persist system wide, but I can't 100% rule out that one of those updates may have helped as well (I considered, but never went through with serious testing like restarting the phone and then only running specific apps until the problem occurred to see if it really could be a specific app causing it). Someone who doesn't use Downcast at all may be able to confirm or deny that one way or the other.

I hope updating to 7.0.3 solves the problem for everyone else!

Updated mine to 7.0.3 (iPhone 4s). Rebooted a gazillion times. Still no luck.

Starting the music via control panel or headphone controller does NOT work.

I have to say that this is the most buggy iOS version I have tried using and I have had iPhone since 3g was brand new.

Come on Apple. Time to fire another quality assurance engineer or whatever you call them. This is not what we are used to from Apple. Time to get it fixed.

Thank you!

Restart does not work for me.

Needs a patch

Only happened after this weeks update!

Just adding my name to the list of people who powered off the iPhone and the lock screen controls work as well as the headphones lol I should done this sooner.

The update to IOS 7.03 solved my problem both with downcast and with songs via USB in car as well.

The update to 7.04 has not changed this I'm using Iphone 4S (unlocked as new).

I have restarted and I am using the latest IOS and the issue continues... APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

I wonder if some of us are talking about slightly different things? I found this thread because I was used to the way iOS 6 allows me to double-tap the home button to bring up music playback controls from the lock screen, whether or not I'm currently playing music (i.e, I can start playback in this way from the lock screen, by double-tapping home and then hitting play).

This no longer works the same way in iOS 7, but I learned today that similar functionality exists, although it's now slightly harder to access. Now, if you are already playing music, the music controls automatically appear on the lock screen with a single press of the home button. (Double tapping is no longer any different than a single tap.) If you are not already playing music, the lock screen does NOT display music controls. However, if you swipe up from the bottom of the lock screen, several controls come into view, including the music playback controls. In this way, music can be started from the lock screen.

It occurred to me that several of the posters in this thread may be having a similar difficulty learning and getting used to the differences between iOS 6 and iOS 7 (as I was), while others are probably seeing a legitimate bug.