Stop music player from defaulting to "repeat on"

Apple updates iTunes enough, it's often difficult to find where they've hidden something under their new "improvements". I read about 20 suggestions on how to get the "repeat" to stop, but people used vague references like "turn off the repeat option"...not much help if you have no idea where the repeat option is and your iTunes is setup where it doesn't display the "repeat" option.

Soooo, taken step by step:

1) Open iTunes.

2) Click on "Library" or "Playlist" at top of the screen.

3) Choose a song to play.

4) When the song starts playing, you may see the cover art or the list of songs in the album for that song.

4) At the bottom of the screen (above "My Music, For You, New, Radio, and @Connect) there is a "pause button" on the left and the name of the current song being played.

5) Swipe UP on that info bar and it will display a larger image of the Album Art, Title, and the "Rewind, Pause, FF" buttons.

6) Along the bottom of the individual song/album art are the Repeat and Don't Repeat Button options in the middle of that bar. Two bars with arrows that crisscross each other is the REPEAT Option and Two lines running side by side with the arrows pointing in opposite directions is the play the song end to end w/o repeats. Whatever you choose is applied to the entire library.

IF you don't know there are SWIPE UPS it's hard to find the right screen to make the changes. Apparently it's a rarely used options since Apple has moved it off the front page it used to be on and put it in an obscure location that's difficult to find.

To get out of the individual song view, there is small down arrow in the top left corner of the screen to get you back to "My Music".

EZ right. haha

While the repeat function appears to be on a per song basis, it is actually turned on through out the library when you activate it (i.e. turn it on for one song or album, it is on for all).

Otherwise, turn it off, then try a forced restart: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps BEFORE doing the restart.

This very annoying feature turns back on for me with every update, reboot or restart of the Music app. I really wish Apple would change the defaut to no repeat, who would prefer to play an album over and over? I'm sure they did some study that indicates as such but I'm guessing those people listen to streaming services anyway!

Thanks for the best reply I found and you made it easier than all the other ones I saw,very annoying as could not find the repeat opption after doing the apple advise updates until I saw your swipe up again once you swipe up once on the cover as before I was only swiping up from bottom of screen then getting just the light and other things but not the up next etc etc,cheers once again.

well... i am aware of where the Repeat button is. i can turn it off, have it in view, & every time i plug it in to my car or speakers, i see it automatically turn itself on... every time. driving me crazy!

is there no fix for this?

if i turn it off, it needs to stay off until i turn it back on!

Thank. Glad someone finally dumbed it down. Annoying feature Apple added.

Thank you. This was driving me crazy

Praise Jesus! Thanks muchas. This had been driving me nuts!

Oh, thank the lord for you! Merry Belated Christmas!

I think there was another app update that now moved the repeat and shuffle buttons one swipe lower.

Get to the view with the album cover and song like in the solution post but then swipe up one more time to get the Up Next list. There you will find the Shuffle and Repeat buttons.

I had the same issue and the listed fix is no longer relevant with iOS 10, but http://www.techtimes.com/articles/178947/20160922/turn-song-repeats-new-apple-mu sic-app.htm had the new fix.