iOS 7 Music playback bug when unlocking device. Is there any solution?

I had the same problem with my iPhone5 and after turning my phone off and back on again it seems to have fixed the problem.

Same here on the iPhone 4S (32GB). First appeared on Beta 6, later even on the final version. A restore only worked for a couple of days, then the issues came back. Hope Apple ist fixing this soon! I wonder why not more people talk about this - are we the only ones with that problem?

I have exactly the same problem and its been bugging me for ages!! It started happening when I upgraded to ios 7. Some of my audiobooks are from 1-6 hours long so scrolling to the exact point in time where it rewinded is a nightmare. Worse still When i try to move the audio bar on the lock screen, it slides to the password enter page. Definately a bug that needs to be fixed!

Same problem. Issue resurfaces after I get an inbound call that pauses the music playing. After that a reset only resolves issue until the next incoming call pauses the music playing. Very inconvenient to reset phone after every incoming call.

I've been having the same problem on my 5S. The only thing I've figured out is that for me, it only did when I had my music on shuffle, I turned shuffle off and back on again it fixed the issue. I don't know if that will solve it for everybody, but it worked for me. One of the most annoying bugs I've found in an apple product to be honest.

I had this issue, and every fix I've tried until now has only been a temporary fix (restarting phone, reformatting and restoring from backup, etc...)

However, I tried resetting my settings and that seems to have worked (5 days without issue)

To reset settings, go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings

(Note: Resetting the settings will just erase the settings. The apps, music, and information will still be there)

Hi everybody,

I have the same problem with my new 5S 64GB, iOS 7.0.4. Music timer freezes at the time when the phone is locked and after the unlock the player jumps to this timestamp. Its total annoying when i listen to long titles, compilations, books. Rebooting is only a temporary solution.

Is there a bug report or only some discussions?

Regards

Same d*mn problem here on my iPhone 5 and it's driving me absolutely bonkers. Restarting the phone only fixes it temporarily as others have said. It's a real nightmare when you are listening to an hour long audio book track or 1 hour or longer mix. I'm going to try blerms suggestion but I'm sure that will take me an hour to figure out what settings I need to tweak back to where I want them.

This iOS 7 rollout has been awful at best. They were averaging a new release every 2 weeks after the initial release. Jobs is rolling in his grave.

Last, what the **** are they thinking with the design of the track position bar being a hair thin line that is almost useless. Could it kill them to make it a circle like before so it's actually useable? What a mess. Thanks for the suggestion blerms. I'll try it tonight.

Ran into this problem yesterday on my new iPhone 5c. Listening to music in my old iPod touch 4g was a better experience! Everytime I unlock my iPhone, the music skips to some part of the song or skips the song entirely and goes to another. Disappointed 😟 Hope Apple fixes this bug very soon.. so annoying!

And @jjftexas, you are absolutely right.. they could've made the seek position bar a circle. The thin line is not at all usable.

The easiest work around until they did this bluster is to reboot your phone. The temp fix last a day or two before it starts jumping back to some goofy place on the track after unlocking. If a reboot fixed it for a short period of time this is obviously a BUG and not a "feature." I swear we are going to have to wait until 7.0.10 before we get an iOS 7 worth a d*mn. Annnnd, don't get me stated on OS X Mavericks. I'm not touching that with a 12 foot pole until this coming Spring or Summer as the nightmares of compatibility to the worst problem of all...Apple mail changing the Gmail IMAP functioning. What they've done there is a travesty and nightmare for thousands of users (do a quick web search on mavericks changing the gmail IMAP equation in Apple mail and you'll see that I'm not exaggerating). I understand that Apple is in major competition with Google and I respect business models. However, don't let your current customer base suffer while you battle over market share. Take care of you current customers and market share and tweak things moving forward in OUR best interest. Over 1 year before Jobs passed, I predicted that Ape would start to falter as they are now devoid of a complete ******* that would come after you with a butter knife to the neck if you frased a product to your market if it wasn't perfectly done. Annnnd, here we are.

The most poignant validation of my opinion came to me in the form of a headline that the Wall Street Journal posted in print after 2 keynotes past Steve Jobs' passing. It says this: "Every time Apple CEO, Tim Cook, opens his mouth, Apple stock dives."

Everything is screwy now from iOS 7 to the way they are producing all their laptop and desktop products. They've eliminated matte finish screens forever. What the heck?!?!!!! Apple displays from the MBPro line to their infamous Cinema Display are only offered in that glossy BS now. Glossy is horrid for people that do graphic design, require proper monitor calibration for spot on operation, and, especially, anyone simply working with "prosumer" to "semi-prosumer" photography software from iPhoto to Apeture to Photoshop and beyond. The fact that they eliminated matte finish screens (which did cost them a lot to produce - they passed that cost to the consumer - and every order put in had to come off the assembly line as such which cost them time and the customer time to wait for the customized product to ship) goes against everything that Apple has been know for.

They are dumbing down their product line. There is NOTHING "Pro" about a MacBook Pro that you can't get a matte finish screen on or even self-service your RAM. My solution? I order an apple certified refurb MBPro 15.3" quad 3.0ghz i7 that had a hi-res / matte finish screen (late 2011). I the installed a quality Samsung 750GB SSD drive which cost me $450 (Apple wants $800 for a 1TB SSD upgrade in new MB Pros). Then I ordered a DVD tray unit from Ifixit.com to move the stock 750GB spin drive to the DVD area. I am pushing best 2TB of storage and was easily able to do a block by block disc image transfer of my old MB Pro using a 1 line terminal command. In 3 hours, which includes tool'ing and data transfer time), I had the new refurb unit running exactly as my old unit. It runs like a dream on Mt. Lion. Last, I saved over $1200 and don't need a d*mn do gel to if a hard line Ethernet cable into my laptop. *** is "pro" about a laptop that needs a dongle for a proper Ethernet hard line connection. Screw dongles when I'm working on server farms. I need hard line access and don't need to worry ably a list dongle in an emergency.

The last rant here is this. Every MB Pro has denoted a Mac Ram limit of 8GB. Guess what? They are wrong. Again, My unit, via Apple, said 8GB max. All 3rd party websites selling quality RAM denoted 16GB. The new MB Pro line doesn't have serviceable RAM so you're stuck with a unit that can, most likely, handle double the 16GB (32GB) that's hard stocked on your logic board. My refurb shipped with 4GB and I popped in 16GB easily with the proper tools and it runs like a dream.

Again, Apple is sliding downhill. Not as bad as MS with Win 8 (8.1 doesn't fix a thing - use cacheshell.com to get your proper win 7 start bar back).

It just ***** that we don't have Jobs screaming at people over all these crap releases. Read his bio. He was and outspoken. That got the job done RIGHT, though.

Sorry for the rant...

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I seemed to have solved this issue on my 5s. I noticed that the music progress bar in the lock screen was stopping at the point in the song where the phone was locking and when I unlocked the phone the song would rewind back to that point. I just moved the progress bar along once and it's resolved it completely. The progress bar is moving now and haven't seen this issue for 2 days now.

Since resetting my settings a month ago, I haven't had any issues. So this appears to be a permament fix.

Maybe something was screwed up somewhere in my settings in my transition from iOS6 to iOS7.

HOW ISNT THIS FIXED??????????????????????????????? ***

Fix please, starting to consider a new phone with samsung all my friends have switched and are really happy, and all I have is a pretty 5s and buggy os :(