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iOS 7 Beta 4 headphones play/pause button fail
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thank god you're posting this. I assume at least one of you guys have an iphone 5?
because I thought it was wilful by Apple not to support it any longer - at least not on my iphone 4. you see, on iOS 6 the remote control wouldn't work at all with my old iPhone, but up until iOS 7 beta 3 all buttons worked. i do hope this is not an intentional move by apple.
because I thought it was wilful by Apple not to support it any longer - at least not on my iphone 4. you see, on iOS 6 the remote control wouldn't work at all with my old iPhone, but up until iOS 7 beta 3 all buttons worked. i do hope this is not an intentional move by apple.
I've had issues with my BT headphones since the first beta. The play/pause buttons didn't work on my headphones nor did the play/pause buttons on the lockscreen. b3 fixed it, seems to be working fine with b4 as well.
Same problem here, on both my iPhone 5 and iPad 3. I actually use the remote all the time, so this kind of sucks. 
Oh well. At least it still works for Siri - "skip to the next track" ...
Oh well. At least it still works for Siri - "skip to the next track" ...Chill. It's a bug and will be fixed in the next beta or the GM release. It's a beta for a reason. The remote worked fine for me when I had an iPhone 4 running iOS 6.
The remote works when using third party music apps - works on Spotify for me which is my main music app. Not such a big deal then for me.
Hi ! I'm on iPhone 4 GSM.
It's clearly related to the Music.app, because Siri/Voice Controls work, Volume works and play works when the Music.app is closed (hitting play opens up Music.app and starts the last song you play or else starts a random song.)
We have to test other apps to be sure. Rports say Spotify work. Confirm anyone ?
We should test :
-Deezer
-Pandora
-YouTube
-Dailymotion
These would give us a good idea of how the bug behaves.
I'll check on my side.
Cheers from France,
Clovel
It's clearly related to the Music.app, because Siri/Voice Controls work, Volume works and play works when the Music.app is closed (hitting play opens up Music.app and starts the last song you play or else starts a random song.)
We have to test other apps to be sure. Rports say Spotify work. Confirm anyone ?
We should test :
-Deezer
-Pandora
-YouTube
-Dailymotion
These would give us a good idea of how the bug behaves.
I'll check on my side.
Cheers from France,
Clovel
CarTunes doesn't work with the headset pause button.
Anyone know if it's possible to get spotify to read the iTunes library on the device or does it only work with streamed music or tracks set to local storage from the app?
No, Spotify cannot read your music on your device, unless it's synced to the spotify app.
I've listened to a continuous mix track that is over 90 mins long this morning and it didn't skip at all.
They must of changed the behaviour of something. I expect it'll be corrected in the next beta. Theres nothing in the release notes though.
I can confirm that the headphone buttons WORK on the following apps:
Spotify (pause, play, next track, previous track) [volume causes app to crash... Workaround: use Spotify iOS4 app.]
Spotify iOS4 (volume, pause, play, next track, previous track)
Tunigo (volume, pause, play, next track, previous track)
Pandora (volume, pause, play, next track)
TuneIn Radio (volume, pause, play)
iTunes Music Store [while previewing a track] (volume, pause, play)
From my testing... it seems to be Music.app related...
Spotify (pause, play, next track, previous track) [volume causes app to crash... Workaround: use Spotify iOS4 app.]
Spotify iOS4 (volume, pause, play, next track, previous track)
Tunigo (volume, pause, play, next track, previous track)
Pandora (volume, pause, play, next track)
TuneIn Radio (volume, pause, play)
iTunes Music Store [while previewing a track] (volume, pause, play)
From my testing... it seems to be Music.app related...
Or if you have an older version of Spotify for iOS 5 or above in iTunes (it's only version 0.7.1 that doesn't work), I would use that. The app for iOS 4 is so crippled.
Thanks guys, I was also thinking it must be music.app related as killing the app and restarting gets it to work for a bit (or maybe just once?)
And I should have stated this earlier, but I have an iPhone 5. However, this bug seems to be hardware independent.
And I should have stated this earlier, but I have an iPhone 5. However, this bug seems to be hardware independent.
Your solution is better to be honest, I just don't have the older version locally. I know its a Google search away for the .IPA, but i'm feeling lazy, haha.
Do you mean crippled as in, less features, or it doesn't work? It works well on my iPhone 5. I've noticed a small bug (started this morning) where it force quits if i quickly press CANCEL on the "Make the most of Spotify" dialog. If I wait a few seconds and then press CANCEL, it works flawlessly.
You could try a double workaround.... Use the Spotify iOS 4 (or an earlier version of the regular Spotify, if available) and then use that to open your iTunes Playlists. I believe that works on downloaded content only... aka no Cloud items.
It lacks the newest features. Saying that i can't believe they took away the option to rearrange playlists from within the app and only resorted it in the latest version (which we can't use), but the app from iOS 4 is missing this and will not get it.
Luckily i have the older app in iTunes on my Mac, but if i didn't i'd have to use the iOS 4 app *shudder*
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If you are saying that Spotify will be able to detect your playlists in the music app (local files), then it doesn't work. You could sync all your iTunes tracks to spotify and play them that way, otherwise it will not detect all the music you have synced to your device using iTunes. You need to be a Premium subscriber to do this.
I'm sure the Amazon Cloud app lets you play local stored music through the app.
It does and the pause button works in it! Thank you for pointing it out, could be a useful workaround for the next couple of weeks
It does and the pause button works in it! Thank you for pointing it out, could be a useful workaround for the next couple of weeks
Nice, I shall try this later.
Same here. Play/pause only works to open the music app. I also noticed that whenever I unlock when there's a song playing, the song skips back to the beginning. Anyone else experience the skip?
Hi ! I'm on iPhone 4 GSM.
It's clearly related to the Music.app, because Siri/Voice Controls work, Volume works and play works when the Music.app is closed (hitting play opens up Music.app and starts the last song you play or else starts a random song.)
We have to test other apps to be sure. Rports say Spotify work. Confirm anyone ?
We should test :
-Deezer
-Pandora
-YouTube
-Dailymotion
These would give us a good idea of how the bug behaves.
I'll check on my side.
Cheers from France,
Clovel
Hi !
I'm on iPhone 5 GSM with iOS 7 beta 4
In my case, the play/pause button doesn't work with :
- native music app (the volume works)
- Youtube app
- Scrobbler (use the native Music app)
The play/pause button works with this apps :
- Dailymotion
- Deezer
- Ustream
- Telly
- Vimeo
Siri/Voice Controls work, Volume works, play works when the Music.app is closed