Custom lyrics not showing iOS 11.2

answers to technical questions don’t always come directly from Apple manuals or memos. What I’m saying is AppleCare advisors sometimes make it up as they go, even using good ol Google search as the source of their advice.

Are you surprised phone support agents could do this?

Seems you re an Apple hater, the way you write, mr. I-don’t-even-own-a-cellphone. The rest of us came here earnestly looking for a solution or workaround.

To me it’s a real issue, but I wouldn’t switch to Android because of a lyrics bug, come on!

Sadly this is why I will NEVER use IOS exclusively. Apple change good and practical stuff, whether by accident or (I suspect) intention. The suggested actions from many of force touching in list view does not work for me with 11.2.1. Keep looking for solutions....

No, not saying that.......sadly I use iOS on iphone at the moment, but most of my music is purchased outside of Apple and imported into iTunes so that I have free choice about my music and my kids can use the music files for Android phones too. Haven't checked how lyrics work for Android yet. Was hoping for a simple intuitive solution..

I hope apple will give us back lyrics as it was befor they change it. The way that it works now takes out ol the fun out of vewing lyrics while plaing songs. APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS. I AM SURE YOU CAN.

I repeatedly suggested a possible hopefully relible solution

1) have lyrics on/off button

2) if lyrics button says on, the lyrics are displayed for each song and change with eahc new song.

if lyrics button says off, the we do not see them

3) all other interfacesnad commands are effective like shuffle et...

may someone can forward this to Apple...

I totaly agree. It is inacceptable that mac don't solve this problem. I spent a lot of hours to put lyrics for my greek songs, and I want to see them on my iPhone. Please !!! Can you solve this problem.....

Yes !!! Thank's. It works for IOS 11.2.6. A little bit complicate, but better than nothing.

It's more than one year now that this bug persist. What's happened !!!

Are the mac programers begin to be totally incompetent ? I know about programming systems, and I am sure that this bug is not so complicated to solve, so please, what the **** are you doing ????

Same experience with my iphone. How come this update removes the lyrics in your iphone? it supposed to improve the phone not to make it worst. I am so disappointed. So Angry. I'm starting to hate iOS. 😠😟

When I said "It's work with IOS 11.2.6" I talk about the trek from Retxed24 listed above.

I to, I am angry against Mac. And I know a lot of people they fill the same against their agressive politic marketing of mac. They think we are stupid. They have voluntary put some slow-down inside the system to push people to buy their new model. The same politic with the planed obsolescence of the accumulators. If this will continue, I will I turn to Chinese products. Shame, because IOS could be a very good system. It is almost a very good system.

But I can't accept anymore this agressive politic of Mac.

Something else is very strange. I have done a cable synchronization again with my iPhone with checked only the chosen pieces of music, and the choose playlist. I have dechecked everything to sychronyse nothing, but instead, all my pieces of music are in my iPhone. Or I expected to have nothing because I haven't checked anything. I don't understand this sort of synchronization. I thought that I could have on my iPhone only the checked Album, And if it is an Album on my iPhone I don't want anymore, it was enough to have the checked box of this album empty on my synch list. But this don't work.

What I said before, is not totally exact. Were erased from my iPhone all the album not buy on the iTunes store. Those coming from a CD or other sources. It seems like the system don't treat the buy and not buy album in the same way.

This is not very useful.

So I've gone laboriously through this thread and many other sites like Reddit where this issue crops up. I am utterly at a loss as to how to resolve this.

I'm using an iPhone 6s, running 11.3 (which supposedly corrected this problem from 11.2).

However: I literally cannot find Lyrics anywhere. It does NOT show up as an option when I do the whole mini-artwork-song-shows-up-in-pink-press-and-hold-on-the-song-title method described, and I updated to 11.3 when it was promptly released and it resolved nothing. Still no "Lyrics" showing up anywhere in my system. And yes, these are songs that have "Custom Lyrics" checked and lyrics populated for them on my desktop and laptop copies of iTunes. And yes, I am a signed-up user of the Apple Store with a working Apple ID and everything.

I think flat-out it's just stupidity on Apple's part at this point. Laziness in quality control. Other people talk about having to completely re-install their libraries and so forth and nobody should have to go through that just to have a feature that worked perfectly fine on older devices and OSes.

Why does this have to be so artificially complicated? Why not simply let us have lyrics for a song, and a lyrics button that is ALWAYS there right in the song-expanded view window, and it's greyed out if there are no lyrics but if you have them then you just click. No hunting around or guesswork or complete change of where it's hidden with every new release. Apple used to pride itself on consistency in its design philosophy and logic and intuitive ease-of-end-user experience. Did all that really die with Steve? Beginning to think so.

Tonight I'm downloading 11.4. So let's see if MAYBE Apple can fix something that wasn't broke in the first place until they 'upgraded' it.

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???

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.