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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Mar 28, 2018 1:28 PM in response to Mookiemeister

Be careful.

After a complete désinstallation of iTunes in my iPhone and a complete reinstallation, and after a cable synchronisation with my mac book, I had all my lyrics in my iPhone. I put new songs in my macbook with they lyrics, and after a new cable synchronisation, a lot of lyrics disappeared from my iPhone. I can't find a logic. Some lyrics was there, and someone else not, without logic, After a 3 synchronisation, some lyrics were back again and some other were erased.

I don't understand what's happened.

( I don't use a total sync, but a chosen synch. I check the album's I want to synchronise.)

Dec 11, 2017 10:25 AM in response to Retxed24

**** APPLE! I HAVE THIS ******* LYRIC **** BUG IN EVERY SINGLE UPDATE RESP. SUBVERSION SINCE IOS 9.0.0, YES: IN 9.0.0, AGAIN IN 9.0.1, AGAIN IN 9.0.2, AGAIN IN 10.0.0, AGAIN IN 10.0.1, IN 10.1.0., IN 10.1.1, AND AGAIN IN 11.0.0, IN 11.0.1, IN 11.1.0, IN 11.1.1., IN 11.1.2 AND STILL IN 11.2.0 - AND NOW ******* PERSISTANT.

Sometimes before it "helped" to copy EVERY SINGLE TRACK MANUALLY AGAIN to iPhone – after EVERY SINGLE SUB-UPDATE again and again. Sometimes it worked, BUT NOW NOTHING WORKS! WORSE, THE VOX PLAYER KNOWS THE LYRICS - THAT PROVES THE DATA IS THERE!


THE BEST OF ALL IS THAT the APPLE IOS 11 CRAP FORCES me to enter two-way authentification codes WITH THE SAME DEVICE – on my MacBook the ******* idiots asks me if I trust the MacBook, on the iPhone it asks me if I trust THE IPHONE!


STEVE JOBS IS DEAD.

Dec 17, 2017 2:24 AM in response to Retxed24

My iphone X, After updating my iphone to 11.2 .1 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.

Dec 17, 2017 8:41 AM in response to Shih3310

Same here, I have 12 thousand songs on my iPhone in 5 languages. It had been a tool to learn languages.

Collected and manually inserted all lyrics for years and years now I can't see them.


Disappointment is an understatement.

And If you have the patience to call them is like talking to a 4 year old and repeating the same over and over.

Dec 18, 2017 7:06 PM in response to ppithermo

Thanks for the procedure! It works great on my iPhone 8 Plus 256GB iOS 11.2.1. However, the procedure does not work on my iPad Pro 9.7", iOS 11.2.1.


Your solution reminds me that even though I've used/owned/bought/programmed many Apple products since 1984 I should get back into the habit of clicking/pressing on everything I see on a screen just to see where it takes me.

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