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iOS 16 Brings Back Full-Screen Music Player to the Lock Screen
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Agreed. The whole point of the cover art is to see it in full display, not hide it away.
As someone who actually designs cover artwork, I fully agree!
Me too! Can’t wait to see the covers on the Lock Screen again! I have some old screenshots of the old player that I looked at recently and it is so much nicer than the small artwork player we got in the ost versions of IOS.
I miss the times when Apple cared about music. It was one of the reasons I fell in love with Apple because I love music very deeply. And Steve Jobs also loved music so much. Now those bozos don't even know what music stands for. They don't care about it. They only care about profit. And to be really honest, all those "important" executives like Eddy Cue, Craig Federighi, Greg Joswiak, etc. don't really like the music they tend to promote on their platform. These guys are old school rockers. We know very well that Eddy loves rock 'n roll, Craig loves metal, etc.. Nobody from the executive level likes the current trendy stuff. I apologize for this rent of mine, but I just miss the old Apple so much.
How about if I don’t want just anyone to see what I’m listening to, music or podcast?
Seems like a glaring fail for a company that touts privacy.
Seems like a glaring fail for a company that touts privacy.
You can click the artwork and it shrinks down to miniature size in the mini player on the Home Screen.
The full sieze artwork is probably my favorite ios16 feature as I’ve been wanting that for years!
Um, my point is that the Lock Screen now exposes things like your music (maybe not so bad) and the podcast you’re listening to (which some may not want made public) for anyone to see. And there’s no way to disable that. I don’t care how long you’ve been waiting for this bit of coolness — the fact that Apple provides no way to turn it off is just plain bad.
Didn’t you read my post? If you click the artwork it shows the small player which is almost identical to the lock screen player in ios15. you can choose the full screen artwork or just the mini player. iOS remembers if you enabled full screen or just mini player.
If your issue is with the mini player as well then the issue is with iOS overall which shows a player on the Lock Screen, and not ios16.
I think I’ve been very clear that the issue is with iOS16. So yes, if you’d read my posts you’d get that.