Music app on lock screen/watch never shows anything playing

[chfilm]

hi,

My music app is freaking me out since ios11.
Whenever I’m playing something, on the lock screen / today view it just always pretends it’s playing nothing.
The same in “now playing” on the Apple Watch.

Anybody else has this problem, or a fix?

 

[willmtaylor]

Now that I'm on 11.2, this is happening ALL OF THE TIME on my iPhone 7.

I rarely use the Music app, but it's constantly up on my lock screen. Maddening.

 

[C DM]

Now that I'm on 11.2, this is happening ALL OF THE TIME on my iPhone 7.

I rarely use the Music app, but it's constantly up on my lock screen. Maddening.

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Have you tried opening and closing the Music app to get rid of it? Does it come back right away or just randomly somehow?

 

[willmtaylor]

Have you tried opening and closing the Music app to get rid of it? Does it come back right away or just randomly somehow?

I had tried that as well as several hard resets to no avail.

However, I do believe I isolated the culprit: one of my Safari tabs had a video embedded in it, so Safari kept thinking this was a media file that needed to be resumed. After closing that tab and resetting, the issue has not reappeared.

 

[mcdeeee]

I had tried that as well as several hard resets to no avail.

However, I do believe I isolated the culprit: one of my Safari tabs had a video embedded in it, so Safari kept thinking this was a media file that needed to be resumed. After closing that tab and resetting, the issue has not reappeared.

I tried that myself to no avail. I'm sick of seeing it too! Annoying.

 

[willmtaylor]

I tried that myself to no avail. I'm sick of seeing it too! Annoying.

Did you try closing out Safari tabs?

 

[Howard Ellacott]

I was getting it constantly, even when playing music in the music app, however reset all settings reduced it massively, happens very rarely now.

 

[willmtaylor]

I still get this quite regularly. I'm fairly certain it's related to how iOS 11 handles bluetooth devices--specifically when they're no longer connected. I've also noticed that it also drains the battery quite rapidly, as when this occurs, my battery has ZERO "standby" time for the day--only usage time.

I can only hard reset the device to have it behave normally, but it typically comes back same day.

Super annoying.

 

[willmtaylor]

After restarting my phone yesterday, I did indeed have usage time and standby time again.

I was careful which Bluetooth devices I connected to, and I think I narrowed it down to the Bluetooth receiver in my vehicle.