Custom lyrics not showing iOS 11.2

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.

Too difficult for me. I live in Switzerland

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Amazed u worked this out, indeed your method does work. Had it continued displaying lyrics for each song in playlist, I could almost deal with it.

Alas going though this for each song is ludicrous

I'll never understand why they keep messing with things that actually work well

clearly time where another love letter to Apple feedback

Nonetheless thanks for the work around truly impressive work

Will, this will be if Apple was the only phone manufacturer but they are not, all my other platforms that I use display the lyrics, I will decide in the summer if the problem persist if I want to migrate to a better IOS, already used Samsung before.....

Alexandra, thanks. clearly what is needed urgently now is a lyrics on/off switch so that lyrics are automatically displayed if they have been entered. hence, new lyrics should appear automatically with each new song.

Possibly some adjustment of the window format. (split screen so that one still has access to controls to shuffle, next song etc.

Best

Personally I still got my ipod touch 32 gb that I use solely in the car because shows the art cover on the car screen, also shows ALL the lyrics just pressing the art cover (the old fashion way)...ah the good old days of Apple...

So i wrote to Apple on 10 Jan 18 with a nicely worded polite question on what's happening with the custom lyrics, got a automated reply with the message that a personal response will be provided within 48 hours. Today is 14 Jan 18... do the math Apple

It seems like, with every update of the music app, Apple makes some insignificant aesthetic change while crippling basic functionality. What happened to custom lyrics and star ratings? Why is it that, no matter if I choose to view artists, albums, or songs, the music is ALWAYS alphabetized by artist, thereby rendering the "album" and "song" view modes completely pointless?

Get it together, Apple. You're shooting yourself and your customers in the foot by screwing up basic functionality like this. The music app from ten years ago worked better than the current one.

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....

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.

I use an ipad and it works the same way BUT the lyrics don't change with the next song like they used to in the playlist view. It is like people at Apple stopped listening to music & podcasts after Jobs died.

Hay this is my problem too after i had to remove all my lyrics sinc, add al my lyrics ans sinc again. And even avter i did it, its not fun to use lyrics if i have to tap 4-5 times to see the lyrics and do it all over when the sing changes. To my deep sorrow apple is gone with Steave Gubs Rip.

hi tnx. it does not matter where we are. the important thing is that we both (among many others) share the hope that apple will come to sences and fix the lyrics display as it was before. if it wont get fixed i think apple and i will go on seperate ways after many years 🙂

all best to you.

Come on Apple, this is getting ridiculous. What's the point of killing this feature which worked nicely? Why do you keep breaking stuff? The entire iOS AppStore review sytem is a mess. And now lyrics no longer show in music.app on iOS?

This is getting to a point which is no longer acceptable.

Good news, I suppose. When I delete a song that is not displaying lyrics and re-add it to my device the lyrics do appear when using the multi-step process. (There is no Lyrics button, no default lyrics display and no lyrics when touching the artwork as it used to be once-upon-a-time).