The lyrics feature in the YouTube Music app allows listeners to follow along with the words as the music plays. Although it’s a great feature for singing along or understanding the meaning behind the lyrics, it may not always work perfectly. Fortunately, there’s no need to use a third-party app to view lyrics for your favorite songs. This guide includes a few useful tips that should bring back the missing lyrics in the YouTube Music app.
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1. Try Another Song
It’s important to note that YouTube Music does not offer lyrics for every track in its library. If YouTube Music is not showing lyrics for some of your songs, there may be nothing wrong with the app.
Try playing some popular tracks and check if the app shows lyrics for them. If lyrics are not showing up for any of the songs, continue with the fixes below.
2. Don’t Use Offline
Another reason why YouTube Music may not display lyrics for songs is if your phone is not connected to the internet. While you can play downloaded songs offline with YouTube Music Premium, those audio files don’t include lyrics. As a result, if your Android or iPhone is not connected to the internet while playing offline, the YouTube Music app won’t show the Lyrics tab.
Connect your phone to an internet connection and check if that solves the problem.
3. Sign Out and Sign Back In
Authentication issues with your Google account can also cause certain YouTube Music features to stop working, triggering errors such as Lyrics not available. In most cases, you can resolve such issues by signing out of the app and then signing back in.
Android
1. Open the YouTube Music app, tap the profile icon in the top-right corner, and select your account.
2. Tap Manage accounts and select your Google account from the following menu.
3. Tap Remove account. Select Remove account to confirm.
iPhone
1. Open the YouTube Music app, tap the profile icon in the top-right corner, and select Switch Account.
2. Select Manage accounts on this device. Then, tap the Remove from this device option.
Sign back into the YouTube Music app and check if the issue is still there.
4. Clear App Cache
Music streaming apps like YouTube Music tend to accumulate significant cache data as you continue to stream your favorite songs. While this data contributes to the app’s smooth operation, it can become outdated or corrupted over time. When this happens, YouTube Music could misbehave and may not display real-time lyrics on your phone.
You can try purging the existing app cache to see if that restores normalcy.
1. Long press on the YouTube Music app icon and tap the info icon.
2. Go to Storage and tap the Clear cache option at the bottom.
Since iOS does not allow you to clear the app cache, your best option is to reinstall the YouTube Music app on your iPhone.
5. Check if YouTube Music Is Down
There’s a chance that YouTube Music servers are experiencing difficulties and causing the app to malfunction. To check for this possibility, you can check YouTube Music’s server status on Downdetector.
YouTube Music relies on services like several third-party lyric providers, including Musixmatch, LyricFind, and LASSO, to provide lyrics for your favorite songs. If these services are experiencing issues, lyrics won’t appear in the YouTube Music app.
The good news is that companies are usually quick to resolve such server-side issues, so you shouldn’t have to wait long. Try using the YouTube Music app after some time and then check if the problem is still there.
6. Update the App
Using an outdated version of the YouTube Music app can also cause such problems. Also, if the issue is occurring due to a bug within the YouTube Music app, updating it should help.
Head over to the Play Store (Android) or App Store (iPhone) and update the YouTube Music app. After that, the app should show lyrics as expected.
Unlock the Words
When you want to sing along to chart-toppers or immerse yourself in indie melodies, the absence of lyrics can diminish the overall music experience. Applying the above tips should solve that problem and get the YouTube Music app to display lyrics on your Android or iPhone.
