Custom lyrics not showing iOS 11.2

After updating my iphone to 11.2 recently, I noticed I cannot look at my custom lyrics I added via iTunes on my phone anymore. There is no show lyrics button. Why is this? Is this a bug or is this how the app is for the foreseeable future? I am seriously, deeply sad and angry that this feature has been taken away. It was literally the only thing keeping me in iOS.

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 11.2

Posted on Dec 4, 2017 4:00 PM

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Posted on Mar 11, 2018 4:18 AM

[–]Wehttam999 8 points 3 months ago*

I noticed this issue too and I am furious about it. The only reason I still use iTunes is because it allows me to add custom lyrics for offline viewing. Why on earth would they get rid of this? Hopefully this is a bug or something.

I will delete my music from my phone and reload it to see if that does the trick. I’ll update you guys.

Update 1: not even deleting and re-adding my music and restarting my iPhone brings up the ability to see lyrics. So I’m EXCEEDINGLY ANGRY 😡 with Apple right now. I may as well go to Android cause there is no difference in their music apps now.

Update 2: I found out how to show lyrics after throughly messing with the music app. You have to 3D Touch the song to play it and the option to show lyrics will be in the drop down menu. A VERY STUPID DESIGN in my opinion.


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Jan 23, 2018 6:53 PM in response to smithwa1959

I'm making this sound more complicated than it is 🙂


Under iTunes Options for my device I check "Manually manage music and videos" and I cut and paste files from my pc directly into the music folder of my device.


My quick testing shows when I delete files that I added just a few days ago under 11.2.2 and repaste them in now under 11.2.5, the lyrics display after going through the multistep process to view them.

Feb 4, 2018 10:17 AM in response to Retxed24

I have a lot of songs in my collection (~90k) and I carry about (18k) on my iPhone 8. I curate my collection very carefully (it’s a hobby), making sure the tag information is complete and correct. Fun for me and my family is gathering and playing music. Often I will get a question about a particular song. It might be about the studio, year, composer or the lyrics. The answer is usually something that can be found in the tag info or lyric. It is soooo frustrating to not be able to see that info. I carefully read through every page of this post and, unfortunately, nothing has brought back lyrics to my phone. So, a shout out to Apple, please fix this flaw in your product!

Mar 8, 2018 12:52 AM in response to Tryak

I have find something...

For the tryk to display the lyrics that Retxed24 tell above,

it is not necessary to display the rose title at the second level. Just chose your song and put and let th finger on the title. A menu appear with "Lyrics" if you are personal lyrics. But I find too that this tryk is working for almost all my songs, but for some songs, the lyrics menu is not displayed on my iPhone, but I can find them in my computer iTunes, and that even after a synchronisation. Had destroy all my songs from the iPhone and remake a total synchronization with chosen songs, but this problem persist. Some of my lyrics from ABBA are not displayed on my iPhone 6.

I don't understand. I can't find a reason for that.

Mar 8, 2018 1:21 AM in response to Tryak

After removing all my songs of ABBA from my iPhone and a resynchronization , I can again display my ABBA's lyrics.

But until when ? I could do that before 2 days and before this synch, it was impossible to display them. ( I removed all my songs from my iPhone 3 days ago, and reinstall theme with a iTunes synch.)

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