Custom Lyrics on iOS 10

Hi Rachel,

in iTunes, de-select all your music, then sync your iphone and check to make sure the music is no longer accessible in the device's Music. then re-select the music you want and re-sync your iphone, and you should see the lyrics options (both ways) and the lyrics for songs that either have them available, or that you've added lyrics to manually (not listed as "custom lyrics" in each file in iTunes).

I had the same problem as everyone here and this solution worked for all of my phones, which are all now on iOS10.

*** For those that don't see the custom lyrics checkbox make sure you've updated the latest iTunes and the lates iOS software. Hope this helps! 🙂

Other folks have given this same advice, and they come back, saying that the lyrics disappear later. I don't want to remove and replace all of my music and only temporarily solve this annoying issue. So I'll wait for Apple to fix it. When I called Apple Care this morning, the tech had no clue. I had to find this thread to educate her, but she promised to kick it upstairs. My guess is it'll be fixed soon.

I've had this problem, too, and I just called Apple Help. I was told that, because I'm not subscribed to Apple Music, I should switch off "Show Apple Music" in my Music settings. I was told this would fix the problem. I just switched it off — let's see if it works!

I've never had "show apple music" checked. doesn't make any difference. curious to see if it did for you.

Hey, i am using iphone 5 and had the same prob and this is my solution:

1. Use Itune to remove all songs from your iphone, simply by un-clicking "sync music" on itune

2. sync your songs from library on Itune by clicking "sync music"

Good luck!

Thanks, but according to other contributors here who have removed their music and synced it back, the cure is only temporary. The risk is that if you've purchased music from the iTunes store, and remove it, you could perhaps lose it if that music is no longer available. I got this advice from Apple Support on the phone. So I'm just going to wait for Apple to fix the problem. I can survive without lyrics for a good amount of time. 🙂

I did as Apple Help suggested, and switched off "Show Apple Music" in my Music settings. Some lyrics show up, but only about 20% of them, as best I can tell. You'd think it would be all or nothing. Go figure.

yeah their copy-paste answer list isn't going to fix this one. this is a legitimate bug in their software. every time I sync my music, lyrics magically reappear on songs that it had been missing from while removing it from others. even if I don't change any metadata anywhere in my library and sync an hour apart, s hit happens randomly. Apple needs to own up to their mistake and fix this because it's super fuking annoying

Hi all,

I have been bothering by the same issue as well and have tried all the methods, e.g. check/uncheck, uninstalled/reinstall, etc.

Although the issue has not been fully resolved, I have found a trick which may temporarily restore the lyrics in your iPhone/iPad. Key tricks as follows:

1) Lyrics would not be properly shown if there is any "&" or special symbol in the lyrics. Remove/replace such abbreviation/symbol;

2) Leave the first line of the lyric blank & start the lyric on the second line.

After the above action, you may resync your device with itune and the lyrics should reappear in your device. Unfortunately, the above method could not completely resolve the bug problem in which some lyrics may disappear again for reset of device.

Despite not desirable, another method is to downgrade the iOS back to 9.x.

Hope Apple will fix the bugs ASAP, PLEASE

I just updated my iP6 to iOS 10.1.1 and the lyrics (I haven't check all songs) seem to be back.

the iOS 10.1.1 update doesn't fix a thing. it seems it randomly changes which songs have lyrics and which don't every sync just like previous versions

So I'm in the wrong forum, as this one's for Windows users. This may make a difference, and I apologize for being in the wrong place at the right time. But at least in my Mac/iP universe, all songs I've looked at -- that did not have the lyrics before -- now have them.

There has been some success if you remove/delete all music from iPod. Then reSync all music back to iPod. I have not been able to get all of my lyrics back onto iPod (Large Collection), but others have. It appears this is not a priority for Apple unless you subscribe to Apple Music. Good Luck

I use the get lyrical app and they don't show up on iOS 10. I can see them fine in iTunes and on iOS 9 though.

Thank you. That worked for me. Some of my songs weren't checked and I wanted to remember which ones were checked, so I made a smart playlist (and unchecked "live updating") with "checked is true". Then I unchecked all the songs, synced, then checked them again. Lyrics are back. I hope it stays that way.