iOS 7 USB Vehicle Loses last played location

Well, I spoke too soon. Tonight I got in the car and when I plugged in it started playing what was already in Now Playing, but when I unplugged it after driving around for a while Now Playing got reset, and now it always clears when connecting or disconnecting from the stereo (except when playing a playlist, which still works as above). So whatever happened with the 7.0.3 update was just temporary.

I have the same issue. Now I see it forgets the song after switching apps, no matter if I connect through USB, audio jack, Bluetooth, or if you sort the songs by artist, album or alphabetical.

If you force the application to close and turn on right again it preserves your song, but if you start switching your apps for like 2min the song is forget and it starts from the first song all over again, every single time, I'm getting tired too, I hope to they solve this FAST, due to is not comfortable at all to listen the same few song very time having more than 700 songs in my phone...

I have the same issue and its not just with the USB either, i can use headphones, stop the music and if you try to resume playing it later, it starts playing the master list. I also noticed it with severL apps, if i dont use facebook twitter or safari for more than a few mins, it refereshes the page next time i try to use any of them, losing where i was last.... In safari it opens the last website i had open but because it refreshes it i lose where i was on that page. A little annoying but not as much as the Music issues!

I have same problem too with my 4S and Toyota stereo. It drives me crazy when after each incoming call music starts from the same track instead of podcast that I had listened before. More than that sometimes it starts play music with incoming call simultaneously! And this is really awful problem.

I have doubts in buing new iPhone just becose of this issue - listening audiobooks and podcasts in my car is one of the most important cases with gadget, and if it doesn't work well - may be I need to consider another product.

Well, this thread is good news and bad news for me. The good news is I'm not crazy and it's not my car stereo. The bad news is we still don't have a fix for the problem. This problem is small potatoes compared to the rest of life's difficulties, but it is super frustrating that it used to work and now with an "upgraded" iOS, it doesn't.

Have you updated to 7.0.3 or 7.0.4 yet?

Same issue here, I've been having this problem since updating to iOS 7. As soon as the power is cut to my iphone, either by removing it from the cradle or the car being switched off, the display resets and wipes whatever was currently playing. Then when I reconnect the phone, it starts playing the first song in the album at the top of the list, in alphabetical order.

This is extremely annoying, especially as it worked from iOS 4 -> 6

This isn't anyone elses problem, Apple needs to own this and patch the problem. Personally I don't care if it's 'working as intended' because that's usually a stupid excuse for bugs that companies like Apple can't be assed fixing. I've recently updated to 7.0.4, hard reset my phone a few times, but still no joy.

iPhone 4s running 7.0.4

Back in iOS 6 I was annoyed when a playlist ended and it went right back to the first alphabetic album (Abby Road - don't get me wrong, I love the Beatles - they aren't what's annoying). This new problem is super annoying. Somewhere an Android's ringtone just spontaneously became a maniacal laugh...

After upgrade to 7.0.4 the issue persist, how long it will take to fix it, is really so hard???

Have you opened an issue with Apple?

Thanks for the post, I am glad that i found someone that had a similar situation. I think what you are trying to describe was my main issue. I was late doing the update and did it about 4 days ago, (the 7.0.4 version). I tried everything to figure it out why my car stereo played a random song everytime i turned my car on or unplugged my ipod from the USB port, so i asked someone at tech support to help me. Try to go to settings>general>reset>reset all settings. I did not lose any music or anything (it did change my background to default or something and I have to go back and put a lock on my ipod). Once I did that I ran to my car and tested it and so far it works!! I can now just plug up my ipod and my music will start where it left off like it used to... Hope it works for you!

Cheers, this fixed the music playback issues for me!

Yup, worked for me too. Why does an update require us to reset all settings?! Now I have to go back and set up my phone the way I had it again. All previous passwords to wifi networks are lost. VERY frustrating. >:(

Thanks to you and others that resetting all settings worked. Having once already completely wiped my iPhone for another reason around 7.0.1 or 7.0.2, I was not thrilled with the idea of re doing all those settings again (and perhaps finding out it didn't work for me). So I wondered if there were just a few settings related to music that actually needed resetting. So I tried rebooting the phone, rebooting just the music app, and changing some some settings. finally I turned "Show All Music" within the music app settings back on. It worked! I turned "show all music" back off and the problem returned. Turned it back on and it worked again. So try that before resetting all. Hopefully it will continue to work until Apple fixes that bug. Will let you know if it stops working again.

I'm curious if those of you who said resetting worked have "show all music" on?

Reset worked. Thanks a million. POS Apple.