How do I turn off shuffle play in itunes for iphone?

Irritating, isn't it? Ever try to listen to side 2 of Abbey Road in Shuffle mode?

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I presume that you (and rbbert above you) are concerned with the first issue, i.e. how to turn shuffle OFF. That is very easy, but not so intuitive. While you're playing music, if you don't see the large artwork of the song that's currently playing, tap the narrow bar near the bottom of the app where you see the song's name -- that will bring up the Now Playing artwork view that you're used to seeing. In that view there is the familiar criss-cross arrows for Shuffle, tap that icon so that it no longer has a gray background (gray background means Shuffle is ON; no gray background on arrows means that Shuffle is OFF).

I did this, but saw no Shuffle arrow icon...until I used my finger. There's more to that page if you scroll down. My Shuffle Arrows have a red background, not gray...but I was still able to turn Shuffle OFF.

> thank you to the author of the previous post.

mountainduck wrote:

I did this, but saw no Shuffle arrow icon...until I used my finger. There's more to that page if you scroll down. My Shuffle Arrows have a red background, not gray...but I was still able to turn Shuffle OFF.

> thank you to the author of the previous post.

Please keep in mind that over time iOS changes, so the descriptions provided earlier in this thread were applicable at that point in time. Today's iOS has a red background on the shuffle icon, but it used to be gray.

My problem is I want to turn OFF shuffle on all my music unless I click the shuffle button. I am unable to change the background color of the shuffle icon. Each time I tap the icon the music shuffles. The color is always dark gray. I am using an iPhone 6s. I have asked Siri to turn off shuffle and she says that it is off. Music still shuffles. Very annoying!!!

No advice here helps me. I loaded a new playlist to hear an album in order as originally intended. When I played it this morning I deliberately avoided the shuffle button, tapped the first song, I could see that the order of songs listed on the screen was correct, but when that song finished a song from further down the list played instead. I just followed advice on this site to unshuffle but the description of the screens was different on my iPhone, which is up to date. Why can't the Apple genius code writers simply change the shuffle button to unshuffle when shuffle is on? A simple toggle effect would be intuitive for users which used to be Apple's trademark.

Tap the bar at the bottom to reveal the Now Playing screen, then scroll up.

When playing any album the first line at the top is labeled "Shuffle". Don't tap it before starting playing the album. Just tap the first track.

Hi Lawrence,

I want to shuffle play all songs. I seem to have lost the ability to do so with the newest version of iTunes. How can I direct my iPhone 6 to shuffle play all songs? I'm running iOS 8.4.1 on my iPhone 6. Thanks, Mark

You can shuffle everything in a playlist, so I would create a "playlist of the whole" that had all of your music in it, then open it and tap Shuffle. It would be easiest to do this in iTunes on your computer, then sync the playlist.

If all of your music is from the iTunes store this playlist already exists, and is called "Purchased."

Bubba1960 wrote:

How can I direct my iPhone 6 to shuffle play all songs?

You don't really need a playlist to do this. Within My Music you'll see right in the middle of the screen in red "Artists" (or "Albums" or "Songs" etc.) Select "Songs" and then either tap Shuffle All at the top-left corner, or pick the first song you want and then bring up the now playing screen (i.e. artwork view of the song that's playing) and tap the shuffle icon at the bottom of the screen.

This doesn't work for me, nor do any other maneuvers I can think of?

iPhone 4s, iOs 9

I have an iPhone 5s with iOS 9 and the solution doesn't work for me. I seem to have an iPod Shuffle in my iPhone. I'll keep trying, though, and thanks for the idea.

Lawrence's 1st reply on July 29th addresses the original poster Zardon described (i.e. how to turn shuffle OFF).

Lawrence's 2nd reply on Sept 2nd (and mine right after) addresses the opposite issue, i.e. how to shuffle all songs.

I presume that you (and rbbert above you) are concerned with the first issue, i.e. how to turn shuffle OFF. That is very easy, but not so intuitive. While you're playing music, if you don't see the large artwork of the song that's currently playing, tap the narrow bar near the bottom of the app where you see the song's name -- that will bring up the Now Playing artwork view that you're used to seeing. In that view there is the familiar criss-cross arrows for Shuffle, tap that icon so that it no longer has a gray background (gray background means Shuffle is ON; no gray background on arrows means that Shuffle is OFF).

Thanks for the easily understood help. It worked like a charm... after I restarted my iPhone. After the restart, the narrow bar at the bottom appeared and the arrows just as you described them. Again, many thanks.

This didn't help me. I followed the directions, did not touch shuffle and tapped the first track in a classical album. The next song that played, though on the same album, was not even in the same symphony. I am beyond frustrated. any other ideas?

Thank you! This did the trick.