Custom lyrics not showing iOS 11.2

Will, I hear you and I'm glad it's working for you! I did my re-pasting after updating to 11.2.5, so I can't promise the update won't break your lyrics again. If it's not too much trouble why not try it, you can always re-paste. Of course even when it's working now it's not a real fix to have to jump through those convoluted hoops; it merely proves that the lyrics are there.

Well. Let's be more precise here.

I updated my ipad to 11.2.5.

After the update, nothing worked.

The method I described way back not longer worked.

I removed all of my music by syncing with no music.

I added a few playlist and synced again.

Then I can activate the lyrics by touching the line of the song playing, followed by touchig the appropriate command.

The lyrics fill my screen.

When the following song ( with lyrics ) starts, lyrics are not updated.

A lot of improvement still needs to be done.

I would like to suggest a flag: lyrics on , lyrics off.

Also the lyrics could fill the screen partially. The rest of the screen being available for controls ( shuffle, next song...)

there is another, easier way. stop using Apple's Music app and use another music app from the App Store, i.e. LeechTunes, which always shows the lyrics without any problems. personally, I use Apple's Music most of the time and switch to that app whenever I want to quickly see the lyrics. of course LeechTunes is not the only one that shows song lyrics, there are many different apps you can get from the App Store that consistently show lyrics without issues.

it's sad tho that the Music app has had this problem for so long. I don't believe they can't fix it, it just seems they don't think it important enough to deal with it. so I'm not holding my breath for any solution from Apple anytime soon. I believe it's been two years now, so if it really bothered them, they would have fixed it by now.

Lyrics are there folks. On Ipad select song and then hold finger on song for a sec, box on left side will open, select lyrics. Presto !!

This is clearly not intended behavior and has been broken for month. Apple doesn't seem to care.

Instead of create new things they are only changing what was done... I want my lyrics back.

I’ve sendo too much money on Apple products for deserve respect on my decision not to buy Apple Music... I don’t have interest in it.

I have my songs and I want to see it’s lyrics as always. Please.

It’s a bug that started after IOS 11, before worked flawlessly, hopefully this will be fixed, if not will keep my iPad and get a better phone since I found IPhone X not an improvement (returned after one week, reusing my old 6s plus)

I've got the 11.2.2 update, iPhone 6 Plus. Thousands of songs over decades. Standard "UNSYNCEDLYRICS" tag in the metadata inserted through various programs over the years ranging from Winamp to Mp3tag to automatic stuff like Lyrics Finder.

Up until iOS 11, all lyrics displayed all the time, flawlessly. Now, after the cumbersome 6-step process, only a minority of them show lyrics. The tags are all the same, so perhaps my iPhone is only picking them up if the UNSYNCEDLYRICS tag is in a certain numerical spot among the various metadata, who knows?

Clearly there is variance from model to model of Apple device, and equally clearly, Apple needs to roll back to an earlier version that works on everything. Apple, once upon a time, was known for products that "just worked." Their stuff is a closed-source walled garden to prevent this precise kind of ish from happening. Shame on them.

This seems to be device-specific, my iPhone 6+ could behave very differently than an iPhone 6 or 6s or iPad, etc.

I would also suggest that apple may still be working on it. I don't think 11.2.2 was pushed out as a bug fix, but rather an emergency security update to address Spectre and Meltdown. Apple said a fix would be released "early in the year" so I'd hope it's still in the works.

oh i'm sorry, i thought you meant something new, not mentioned previously in this forum. i've tried this workaround before, it works fine.

however, it's too complicated for me, i find it easier to use Apple's Music app for everything but lyrics, then quickly switch to another app when i want to see lyrics, e.g. Musixmatch if i have an internet connection or LeechTunes if i don't

Alex

sorry, just to be clear, the way i do it is not without it's drawbacks

Musixmatch is amazing in that it shows lyrics in real time, like karaoke lyrics, but (a) it requires an internet connection and (b) it doesn't show the lyrics that i've personally added, it shows internet lyrics, which is not ideal for me, because i've taken the trouble to add some details to some of my song lyrics, e.g. who are the musicians in some of my jazz or blues songs i have

and LeechTunes takes a few seconds to load the first time you open it and you can only see lyrics with a customisable gesture (i've set it to swipe down with two fingers)

the ideal way for me would be for Apple to finally solve this problem once and for all, so i can go back to using just one app again

Hi,

I have the newest os. Apdated it today. The lyrics did not vanish, it still works but in a stupid way like before. Also when the song changes - the lyrics won’t. You must go all over again.

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OK.

I posted a small movie a while back, explaining how I could get the lyrics.

The link is on page one of this discussion.

Unfortunately this worked with ealier versions for 11.2.

But with 11.2.5, it no longer works.

However, someone posted recently an alternate method that works with 11.2.5.

Apple what we need is some flag : lyrics on or lyrics off.

If flags is on, lyrics display if they are present (clearly they don't if lyrics are not present) , hence the lyrics change when a song change occurs.

With lyrics off, it's clear.

Not sure this will ever take place.

Let's keep our fngers crossed.

As far as I can remember, some time around iOS 8 the lyrics started causing complications with their display across certain devices. It's been so long since I last saw my custom lyrics on my iPhone, though they show perfectly on iTunes(both PC and Mac). Different people have used various work-arounds to make them show, but they were never consistent.

I've tried and clicked every cranny and nook on my Music app to hopefully find a work-around for the lyrics to no avail.

I don't see why this is such a resilient or recurring issue for one of the top 4 IT companies in the world.

And This is exactly the reason why I am angry against Mac. They put a lot of small bugs you can not avoid using an old version of iPhone or Mac, to push you to buy a new one.

For example, bugs with cable synchronisation to push you to cloud synchronisation. Doing so, you have to buy some memory. For the Lyrics, you have to pay to connect to Apple Music.

And so on.

Abject politic.