Lock screen pausing

I just got my Galaxy S5 and I noticed that when I'm playing music on Spotify and I lock my phone, I can't pause or skip from the lock screen. Is there a setting that I can change to fix it or is the feature not availble on this phone?

I have a similar behaviour.
I play a podcast in the Podcasts.app, and a few hours later, when I hit 'Play' on the lockscreen, the music player 'forgets' this fact and just grabs a title from the music library instead of continuing with the podcast.
This started happening in IOS6, so I think this is a new 'feature'....

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HT201401 My lock screen is stuck

Everytime I go to unlock my phone my lock screen pauses and then lets me in. Recently, I have been putting in my number and the screen completely locks, I cannot turn off my phone and I cannot charge it, I have to wait for it to shut down by it's self which, takes anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. Any clue what is the matter with my phone?

Try Virtual Lock Button. Settings App > General > Accessibility > Assistive Touch > ON > tap new small white screen button > Device > Lock Screen. This can even be used to turn iPhone OFF. To turn iPhone ON, connect to power, charger or USB port of computer.

Why are the forward and backward buttons so close to the play/pause button on the lock screen?

The quickest way to control the playing of music or podcasts is on the lock screen after double tapping the button. The controls for forward, rewind and play/pause are way too close together. There seems to be no logical reason for having them so close when there is room on the screen. Is there a way of moving these buttons?

No. But tell apple about your concern http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Can't pause music from lock screen in iOS 6?

I have my iPhone 4s set up with a passcode. In iOS 5 I could pause and resume music and podcasts without having to unlock the phone with my passcode. I no longer have that ability in iOS 6. If I have a song or podcast playing the phone will Auto-Lock after a minute, and to pause playback I have to slide the slider and then enter my passcode to make the controls visible.
I've done a fair number of searches to determine whether this can be controlled with a setting but haven't been able to find any answers. Am I missing a setting somewhere, or did Apple remove this functionality?
Thanks.
Shawn
PS: I wasn't planning on upgrading to iOS 6 any time soon, but I dropped my 11-month-old iPhone 4s a week ago during our first trip to New York. Smashed the front glass (couldn't find my bumper before we left). Out-of-warranty, no Apple Care. It turns out we were only a few blocks away from the upper west side Apple store. They replaced the shattered phone with a "new" one for $200 (plus $50 for Applecare and $30 for a case), but ended up with a phone running iOS 6. So now there's this lock screen control issue, plus the map issues (which weren't too bad). On the bright side, I made a lot of use of the Panorama photo feature on our trip. And I was happy we were able to get a replacement within an hour, even though it cost $200+.

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner! Thanks so much Steve A. Double tapping the Home button does toggle the player controls on and off from the lock screen.
I was hoping it would be something simple like that.
Just wondering, is that functionality explained somewhere? As I wrote in my first post I did several searches to come up with a fix or explanation for this issue.
Cheers.
Shawn

Anyone else having trouble pausing and skipping music from the lock screen?

I usually listen to music in the mornings and when I go to pause my music or change the song it simply won't work unless I go into my phone and use theistic icon to pause it or skip it.

it works fine on my phone. try to check access Settings- Control center - make sure Access on Lock Screen and Access within Apps are On. while on lockscreen mode, try swiping up from the bottom of the screen to view control center. try to play a song, then swipe it down to hide the control center. u will see there music playing while on the lockscreen and can pause it from there.. hope this will help.

Pause before lock screen

Original ipad wi-fi 3G, consistantly updated a short pause from button-push to lock screen suddenly turned into a long pause from button-push to lock screen. Sometimes it pauses until a fraction of a second before the lock screen times out, sometimes it almost boots normally but never more than once. Tried reboot-reset-refresh, started from scratch, nothing has seemed to help.

I have the same problem. I guess these are bugs on Control Center app, and hope Apple sees to this and release updates to fix them soon.

Play/Pause When Doubleclicking from Lock Screen

Hey,
So I have a 4S and up until yesterday when I would double click the home button I could play and pause the music just fine, but now even when music is playing the music controls on the lock screen don't register anything and when I hit the play/pause button, nothing happens. I can control the volume from the lock screen but when I try to play/pause the music from the multitasking menu, I have the same problem as the lock screen. Is there anything I can do about this?

Try doing a hard reboot of your iPhone: Press the Menu button and the power button until you see the Apple sign. See what happens then

Whenever I try to pause or skip music on my lock screen it doesn't allow me to. It doesn't allow me to do that from the control center either. I am running on iOS7. How to fix this problem ?

I've had this issue since I downloaded iOS 7. Is there any way to fix this ?

I have the same problem!
I came on here to see if anyone has a solution, but it seems there might not be one just. Keeping my fingers crossed. Quickly adjusting music selections from the lock screen was one of my favorite and most used features (not to mention this bug renders control center pretty much useless to me if I have not access to my music from it).

Music buttons not working in lock screen on my iPhone 4 after iOS7 update.

After I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS7, the music buttons like PLAY, REWIND and FORWARD are not working in the locked screen as well as on swipe up menu. Any resolution please?

hi there
i had a problem with my wifes iphone 4s, today morning while travelling to work i changed a setting on repeat option and changed it to repeat artist, it was fine until when i finish my work and on my way back i found songs are not playing anymore, lots of stop signs next to my song list, play/pause button not working, album arkwork keep moving from one to another on its own, so after i reach home i try to do some research on Apple support communities, try to soft reset my phone closing all the apps on background didnt work, also note that control centre music player was not working as well. none of the solutions worked. after trying for two hours i found out that the trouble is in repeat options , so i changed it from repeat artist to repeat off. and the music start playing as usual, but i still have those stop buttons next to the songs i tried to play earlier. At least it fixed temporarily. please also note that in the meantime i tried to sync my phone with the pc and suddenly its start syncing all the songs again assuming there were no songs on my iphone. so guys i think soft reset might not help all the time but try to remember what settings you changed recently and change it back to the original option, not sure ,but it might help.

I downloaded iOS7 and now my lock screen photo is blurred.

It was fine in iOS 6. I tried using one of the Apple photos for the lock screen and it blurs also.
I'm not having that problem with the home screen.
Any ideas?

Apple clearly desinged the lockscreen to blur, whenever anything other than the TIME has to display there.
Took me a long time to realize that, for me, the problem was audio playback. For others, it is notifications, texts, etc.
Whenever you use AUDIO, the iOS displays the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen, which causes the blurred background [presumably in order to better see the displayed info]. But, as soon as I PAUSE, the screen clears right up.
If your issue is notifications, this should be fixable; because you should be able to NOT DISPLAY notifications on the lockscreen.
I will be checking to see if there is an option to NOT display the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen - given new control center, those buttons are no longer even necessary, especially when I can access the control center from the lockscreen.
We need to request that apple add option to STOP blur effect on the lockscreen.
You will NOT see this effect on the home screen; because, in theory, the iOS does not "display info" there - only icons.
Hope this helps! Been very annoying for me, as well!

Can't switch users from lock screen in Cinnamon 2.0.14

Hi! I have searched the forum and couldn't find anything that answered my question.
The expected behaviour is that there should be a 'switch user' button on the lock screen to take the user to the login manager. Unfortunately this is not the case, and the only way to use the computer is to either log in to the last used account, or do a hard reset. Is there a configuration option somewhere that will enable such a button?
Thanks
P.S. Another slightly related question. Every time the computer wakes from sleep there is a brief pause while a line ending in 'suspend' is printed on a black screen. This is repeated on each wake so that there are multiple lines on the screen. Is there any way to stop this behaviour?
Last edited by Und (2013-12-24 04:23:11)

Hurricane wrote:
It seems as though that bug was reported a while back. Here's the link.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/671
Unfortunately the suggestion on that page simply returns:
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/bin/gdmflexiserver’: File exists
However, I have replaced GDM with LightDM and that is working perfectly. Thanks for telling me where to look!

Lock screen issues when deleting notifications

I am having a recurring problem where the phone gets stuck when I try to delete a notification from the lock screen. When I swipe and hit Trash, the screen sends me to the password entry screen but every time I hit a button, the screen only bounces to the right then back. I have to double tap the keys quickly just to enter the code. Once this happens and I can unlock to Trash the notification, I then sometimes have the time/date on the lock screen disappear. I have to reboot to get it to work. It's happening on multiple devices, 5s, 5c, and iPad Air, all with iOS 8 (the phones on 8.1.1 and iPad on 8.1). I'm also having TouchID get stuck if it doesn't read after three attempts. Overall, the Lock Screen is pretty unreliable on iOS8.

sometimes seems like the effect may not auto-disappear, as it should. hopefully the "blur with no notifications" is NOT normal.
rebooting the iphone always works to remove the burred effect; and may fix this "glitch", if it IS a "glitch".
but, if your issue is only with notifications blurring the lockscreen, this seems fairly easy to fix, since you can set ALL of your apps to NOT display notifications on the lockscreen. If the iOS doesn't have to display info there, there is no need to blur the background.
you should note that there are things other than notifications that WILL blur the lockscreen; so when you say you're getting "blurring but no notifications"; then this could mean that the iOS is displaying some other info on the lockscreen.
Example: for me the blurred screen has to do with AUDIO PLAYBACK, which causes the iOS to display the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen. When I PAUSE AUDIO, the blur clears up instantly. So, clearly, Apple designed the screen to work this way.
I will be checking to see if a way to remove the "audio controls" from the lockscreen. given new contol center (which I can access from the lockscreen), there is no longer any need for these controls to display on the lockscreen.
I will be trying to remove everything possible from displaying on the lockscreen, to at least minimize this effect. But think we all need to request that apple add an option to STOP the blur effect on the lockscreen.

When playing YouTube in background the phone stays on and does not auto lock and if it is auto locked and you receive a text it will stay on / lit even in the lock screen

Mine and my wifes iphon 5s is having way too many problems for today's technology, when using iTunes music app from the lock screen if you press pause from the lock screen it stays the same not like before when you paused the music the play buttons would disappear but now they just stay there, and when playing YouTube videos in the background from safari and the phone is in lock screen and you receive a text the screen will stay lit until you turn it off yourself and also the same thing happens in the home screen if your playing YouTube from safari in the background the phone won't auto dim of auto lock after any amount of time it will stay on forever these problems need to be fixed, also the wifi is not working like it used to and the LTE and 3G data are slow, slower then the 3GS when ios 6 came out. Please fix thank you, loyal customers for 8 years and own almost every product you sell, thanks again

Any number of things could have caused the phone to do this. If after the reset you are experiencing additional problems, the next step in the troubleshooting process is a restore from a backup. Make sure you have one before you start the restore process. If that does not improve things, then you may have to restore as a new device. Remember, restoring as a new device will delete all data off the phone. Make sure all of your pictures are imported to the computer and all other data is synced to supported applications on the computer before restoring as new. See this support document about backups http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946, and this about restoring the phone. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

HT5957 Controlling music apps in lock screen doesn't work in ios7.02?

After applying the second update to ios7, none if my music apps function in the lock screen. No stopping music from any app including the Apple music app in the lock screen. This means that Bluetooth controllers such as car stereo systems can't control next track, pause or stop on any music app being accessed since the screen is generally locked while driving. This is dangerous because the only way to control these apps - while driving - is to unlock the phone. Apparently my phone is now more secure, but I guess that means it securely doesn't work in lock screen.

Try A and B
(A) Restart iPad
1. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears.
2. Drag the slider to turn off iPad.
3. Turn iPad back on, hold down the Sleep/Wake until the Apple logo appears
(B) Reset iPad
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
Note: Data will not be affected.

Just got iOS 7, Lock Screen Blurred When I Have No Notifications?

Just got the new iOS 7 update for my iPhone 5, I realized that the lock screen blurs when you have notifications. So for the first few days if I swiped into my phone, then pressed the button on the top that turns the screen off and takes you back to the lock screen. And it wasn't blurred anymore (thank god! I really like the picture I have for my lock screen. Then after a few days I got some notifications, once again (because I wanted to see the picture I had for my lock screen/I deleted it by mistake and no it's not on my iCloud I checked) I went into the phone and went out and it was still blurred when there were no notifications on display. What is going on?

sometimes seems like the effect may not auto-disappear, as it should. hopefully the "blur with no notifications" is NOT normal.
rebooting the iphone always works to remove the burred effect; and may fix this "glitch", if it IS a "glitch".
but, if your issue is only with notifications blurring the lockscreen, this seems fairly easy to fix, since you can set ALL of your apps to NOT display notifications on the lockscreen. If the iOS doesn't have to display info there, there is no need to blur the background.
you should note that there are things other than notifications that WILL blur the lockscreen; so when you say you're getting "blurring but no notifications"; then this could mean that the iOS is displaying some other info on the lockscreen.
Example: for me the blurred screen has to do with AUDIO PLAYBACK, which causes the iOS to display the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen. When I PAUSE AUDIO, the blur clears up instantly. So, clearly, Apple designed the screen to work this way.
I will be checking to see if a way to remove the "audio controls" from the lockscreen. given new contol center (which I can access from the lockscreen), there is no longer any need for these controls to display on the lockscreen.
I will be trying to remove everything possible from displaying on the lockscreen, to at least minimize this effect. But think we all need to request that apple add an option to STOP the blur effect on the lockscreen.

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