Slider / scrubber control on iPod Touch or iPhone music player has disappeared!

June 24th 2009

Just a quick note incase you (too) find that the player control slide or “scrubber” bar on your iTouch/iPhone music player has disappeared, it ain’t broke, it’s just hiding! 

I was so excited about the added feature in the 3.0 Software release that allows you to skip back 30 seconds in a track – especially useful when listening to a podcast and you get interrupted – but then suddenly it wasn’t there. I was half way through a Boagworld podcast when I accidentally hit the skip button. Without the scrubber bar I (thought I) was looking at listening to 30mins all over again (when in fact if you hold down the skip button it does fast forward through the track you are on – another thing I learnt following the link below).

Turns out you have to tap the album cover/artwork to show/hide the scrubber bar. More info about the additional music controls can be found on the Apple site.

Posted by Emily

Comments (7 so far)

Brandon wrote on 9th July at 6:55 PM

I just lost mine listening to a podcast and couldn’t find any information about it on the net…except from here.  Thanks for the info!

Andre wrote on 27th July at 8:15 PM

It was quite a relief to find this solution.
Adding tags: iphone 3.0 ipod skipping slider problem gone

Drew wrote on 22nd January at 2:10 AM

Cheers from Austin Texas - this tip saved me from going bonkers!

Angus Neil wrote on 10th February at 3:50 PM

Excellent - the info you supplied has been foxing me for weeks now.  Couldn’t even find a mention of it on the Apple site.  Certainly makes navigating my audiobooks with ‘lost’ placemarks a lot easier now that I’m able to get the scrubber controls back.

Rob wrote on 15th February at 11:31 AM

Literally.. Brilliant work. I’ve been restoring my iphone because I couldn’t suss out this problem… feel pretty stupid now though smile

Alan wrote on 22nd February at 12:10 AM

Brilliant. Like the other posters above, I thought I had done something wrong - couldn’t work out why it had disappeared. So simple!! Thanks a lot

katie smal wrote on 1st March at 3:10 PM

Brilliant! I can’t do my peddling on my exercise bike unless I know exactly how much time I have left on each track. Now I can start exercising again. Yeyas!!! Thanks very much.

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