Thank you, Matthew! That was my first thought as well. I tested this idea with more text-heavy album art and found it still more appealing than the current implementation. Especially since it would match the animated album covers in the iOS 17 music app.

I wish the lock screen on iOS 17 would display full-screen album art, similar to the music app

I'm guessing the reason they opted not to do that is that there's likely a significant amount of album art that either has text that would clash with UI, or doesn't look good when cropped to a very tall portrait aspect ratio

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