- iPhone users are experiencing a black screen bug in YouTube Music, making the app unusable.
- YouTube Premium subscribers can switch to ad-supported music as a temporary fix.
- Track control issues include skip and rewind buttons more suited for podcasts, affecting CarPlay and lock screen controls.
Apple iPhone users if you’ve been seeing the black screen when opening YouTube Music you’re not alone. iPhone users are complaining bitterly about a YouTube Music bug that made their music app journey dark. However, we’ll tell you all about it and show you some fixes as well.
YouTube Music Bug Shows Black Screen on iPhone – What You Need to Know
Some iPhone users are dealing with a bug, which lets them with a black screen when they just open the YouTube Music app. This shortcoming renders your app out of use as you are deprived of your music files and favorite playlists.
Although your phone screen may be dark, the YouTube Music logo and other icons, including your profile picture, might appear. The bottom bar can still show the Home, Explore and Library tabs but the Samples tab might no longer be present.
Sadly, people with YouTube Premium subscriptions are denied access to their music libraries because of it. However, there is a way around this – cancel the subscription plan and access music with ads instead. It is far from ideal, but we need something to keep us going while we wait for an actual solution.
This bug seems to be affecting iPhone users more than Android users while the latter seem to be escaping unscathed. A lot of users assume that the recent update of the app (version 6.48.3) has conjured up a server-side problem. And NO, even reinstalling the app won’t work.
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Users also complain about track control issues in addition to the black screen glitch. The navigation buttons have changed to 30 seconds skip and 10 seconds rewind control, which is more appropriate for a podcast than music. This issue is shown on the CarPlay and lock screen’s Now Playing controls.
Not all iPhone users are impacted by this; hence, if you haven’t experienced any issues with YouTube Music, add your name to the lucky list. We will update this blog once Google has initiated any updates to resolve this issue.
