Why does my iPhone Music app not start in Shuffle Mode?

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Why does my iPhone Music app not start in Shuffle Mode?

I listen to Music on my iPhone while driving. The app always starts by playing the first song in alfa order in my playlist, which is bad for a couple of reasons. 1) I get thoroughly tired of whatever the first song on my playlist is. 2) More seriously, it takes a few presses or swipes to fire up shuffle mode, and fiddling with my phone is the opposite of what I want to do when I'm ready to drive. This happens even if I get to where I'm going and leave Music open on the phone, then later get back in the truck and resume.

Based on researching this type of question, I suspect there's no way to do this. Please show me I'm wrong? TIA!

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iPhone 12 mini, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 13, 2024 5:29 AM

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gsyrba

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Dec 19, 2024 11:26 AM in response to ridin gaijin

My shuffle through car play always starts the same for the very first song. I'm just in the habit of giving the song 5 seconds, then hitting the "next" arrow on the dash or steering wheel. Second song is always random. I know it never used to work this way, but I think something changed on Apple Music quite a while back, and since then, I can't change it either - and I've tried and tried.

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