Custom lyrics not showing iOS 11.2

the problem is fixed. just hold you finger on the song. and select lyrics. very easy. let me know if u need more explaining. Happy New Year !!

Or: if your iPhone has 3d touch (like 7 and later), you can just push down the name of the track (from wherever your playing it), and voilà, the lyrics option.

Hey Will,

I don't mean to be a human ad for a specific developer or company, that's why I wrote "there are many different apps you can get from the App Store that consistently show lyrics without issues".

I've tried quite a few music apps in the past few years, mostly looking for apps that easily display ratings and lyrics, and the best ones for me right now are LeechTunes and CarTunes (only a matter of personal opinion of course).

I'm not sure what issues the reviewers you saw found with LeechTunes, it's been working fine for me.

But they point I wanted to make here is that this confirms that the lyrics are indeed embedded in there, but Apple's Music app just cannot show them anymore, for some strange reason. I didn't mean to tell people they should use the app I use, far from it.

Alex

P.S. I just noticed I wrote 'i.e.' instead of 'e.g.', which completely changes the meaning, sorry for that.

I just installed 11.4 and it looks like lyrics is back where we used to see it.

Good moening

To see lyrics you must jump tough hoops!

1. Tap on album

2. Tap on 3 dots dowm on left

3. Tap on the little album thap pops up

You will see the song in red

4. Long touch (3d) on the red row.

5. Menew pops and you choos lyrics

6. When the song changes do it all over again

ALPPLE THAT IS VERY BAD METHOD!!!!!

Hi. I posted a workaround above, but here is again...

I signed in to respond to someone who had an excellent work around, but can't see the answer now that I'm signed in, so I'll put the steps in here: (bear in mind I have not gone through my entire list of songs that seem to be missing the lyrics when you tap the 3 red dots, but so far so good 🙂

Play song

Tap on the 3 red dots at the bottom right

If the Lyrics option does not appear, tap on the small album artwork to the left of the name of the song

The song that is playing will be highlighted in pink. Hold your finger on the song.

You should hopefully now see the lyrics option

To add to this, I tried some more songs, some of which did not load the lyrics, so the solution to that is to go into ITunes on your computer--->song--->get information---lyrics--->alter just one character in the lyrics you have (I put a space after the first line). You can now go back to your IPhone music and follow the steps above. For the most part the lyrics load, I had to do the same steps above a couple of times for a couple of songs, but they eventually appeared.

Hope this helps 🙂

ok I don't believe they were telling you the whole truth when they told you it was purposefully this way and not a bug. i have been working at AppleCare (Apple's phone support) for years, until relatively recently, and i have seen former colleagues do this: give the caller a wrong answer with conviction to make the issue go away.

let me recap the issue we're discussing: in iOS 10 and later lyrics were meant to show right below the album artwork, but before Up Next.

see a description here: View lyrics in Apple Music - Apple Support

however, this never worked perfectly, it was not showing the lyrics to some of the songs. and every update made it a little worse. it was showing lyrics this way maybe for half the songs or less, but in iOS 11.x.x it shows lyrics for none of the songs

now, if the specific AppleCare advisor or senior advisor that you spoke to told you that they temporarily did away with this feature, because they're trying to figure out what to do, i might believe it.

but i can't believe this complicated way of showing lyrics is the way Apple wants it right now

therefore, i think they gave you a half truth to make you go away

I believe i have a reliable way of getting the lyrics to be visible on the iphone.

I enclose a link to a small movie illustrating the methode.

I go for example to playlist pick a list, then a song.

Once the song is playing, I touch the song at the bottom of the scren.

I get the artwork.

If I touch the 3 red dots, the window that pops up does not containe the line lyrics. .

I click now on the small art work.

This activates a new list.

The song is displayed in pink.

I keep my finger on that song.

A new window pop up where the item lyrics appears at the bottom.

Of course complicated but reliable...it seems

good luck all.

Dropbox - LyricsoniPhone.mp4

It still appears to depend on the model/size of the device; the vast majority of files on my 6 Plus still do not display the lyrics, and those that do require at least 5 convoluted steps, and even then they display inconsistently. Some of my files display lyrics in "songs" but not in playlists.

Apple apparently messed the feature up when attempting to make lyrics force-touch friendly and now they are not adequately testing all models / variables when trying to fix. I suggest they revert to the older system where lyrics always displayed below artwork.

I am just started to use Marvis music app, not perfect but it's free and does

show the lyrics on the iPhone or iPad, will be nice if Apple fix it but I don't they care or maybe they are incapable to do it, welcome to the new Apple more like MS now....

Its a few months later and now this function works. Just barely though mate.

I found it works well with songs paired with very small lyrics. Barely a paragraph or so if you were to stretch it out.

Any song that is longer, it will, and I repeat, not show up using your method sadly.

It is my hope that Apple would fix this. This problem is only getting more attention now, and with luck it will be fixed.

Sadly though, the newest update iOS 11.2.6 has not improved on this issue.

Sorry. It is the tryk from "ppithermo" and not from "Retxed24". I redisplay it.

(I believe i have a reliable way of getting the lyrics to be visible on the iphone.

I enclose a link to a small movie illustrating the methode.

I go for example to playlist pick a list, then a song.

Once the song is playing, I touch the song at the bottom of the scren.

I get the artwork.

If I touch the 3 red dots, the window that pops up does not containe the line lyrics. .

I click now on the small art work.

This activates a new list.

The song is displayed in pink.

I keep my finger on that song.

A new window pop up where the item lyrics appears at the bottom.

Of course complicated but reliable...it seems)

And as I said, not necessary< to display the pink song title. You can do this directly from the normal song title

Try restoring your iPhone Software

This is getting painful.

It worked only with difficulty in iOS11.1.2.

For me it was necessary to remove all of my music and then sync it again.

Now, even this trick does not work...

How could we get apple to get this to work???

Thank you. It does work after the few taps.

In some songs, still does not show the lyrics but with a 3^rd party app (Marvis+) I can see the lyrics.

Conclusion: 3^rd party app developers got it to work but APPLE does not.