I see , ok . Thanks for taking the time to explain , I appreciate it <| sep |> 143 . FUCKING WHAT ? ! HOW IN THE FUCK ? !<| sep |> Not defending this design as I think it ' s horrible , but can guarantee you no one designed it this way . Someone designed this for a song with convenient titleartistalbum length and beautiful cover art that makes this look really good . They send it to the developer that builds it , but not every song has has a nice titleartwork so it only looks soso for tracks that don ' t . The developer also may not think of what to do when no music is playing until it ' s very late in the game and very little can be done to make the deadline . They completely forget about the case that if the user was previously not playing from Music . app the bar at the top of Control Center won ' t be there . The screenshot is the end result . Again , not defending it , just saying I can totally see how this comes to be .