Music Player in Lock Screen of Samsung Galaxy S4

I know that lock screen widgets are only available if you have a Swipe lock screen method in your phone. But some of the widgets are can also be used even though you have a more secured lock screen method like Pin and Password. One of the available widgets that can be used in secured mode is the Music Player. Many people are asking on how to show/hide the Music Player on lock screen of Samsung Galaxy S4. At first, I can't figure it out on how to purposely show/hide the music player so I made several experiments. Today I want to share my findings.

Show Music Player in secured Lock Screen

Many People observed that the music player is not consistenly showing in their lockscreen. Sometimes the player is there and sometimes not. And they can't figure out whats the main cause of this. Check and follow the steps below:

• Be sure that you're playing a music - The player will never come out unless you're playing a music.
• Be sure that your Google Music app is updated - My music player does not appear in my lock screen before(even I'm playing a music) because I disabled my Google Music app to save RAM as it runs in the background even not using it. So what I did, I re-enabled and updated it and viola! the Music player is always there now everytime I play music.

Hide Music Player in secured Lock Screen

Many people annoys that everytime they play music, the player is there in their lock screen. Several suggestions in the forums saying that they must clear the data of Samsung Music in the application manager while other said to disable it. You're lucky if your phone allows you to disable it but not all Samsung Galaxy S4 can do this. What you need to do is to just disable the Google Music app instead of the Samsung Music. Go to Settings >> More >> Application Manager. Go to All and look for Google Play Music. Tap it and you will see a Disable button besides the Force Stop button

All of the tips here is based on my experience. These steps may not work in your phone and these might not solve your problem. Comment below if this works to you.