Play music on iPhone, does not update plays or last played on Apple Music for Mac

For me, it is long, long way from being fixed. My playlists 'Under four' are different on Mac, iPad, iPhone and TV. However, a new quirk now is, the iPhone version only registering songs played while on my Wi-Fi at home, in the 'recently played' smart playlist back on the iMac. Check on Last.fm and yes, there is ALL the music I listened to, to and from work. And whaddayaknow?! In the Journal app, it invites me to write something under a section where, amongst other things, it lists ALL the music I listened to on my iPhone, walking in and out to work.

Let's face it, if Last.fm can get it right...

This solution synced for two songs for me. And then it stopped. I also tried playing music from Home Sharing from my AppleTV. It also did not increase the play count. The funny thing is that Music on the mac **knows** that the song was played, it just does not increase the play count. Anyone from Apple able to tell me how to file a bug on this? Thank you.

I still have not figured it out. I use Apple + and Music... so why all my devices are not the same puzzles me. I want the songs I play on my iPhone to be reflected on my Mac and MacBook. And of course my iPad. Any ideas are appreciated. Thx

Yep - raised a case for this back in April that was never resolved. This predates iOS 17. Plenty of threads like this one under the Music on iPhone category as well.

Totally 👍

This makes sense nice find on that. I hope if that is the case they can still figure out a way for us to keep accurate play count as consumers.

Yeah, very frustrating. I spent 4 hours the other night going through all my albums and artists Favoriting them only to find out it didn't sync across my devices. It is such a mess right now.

Thanks.... VERY frustrating. Along with another problem. Many songs will only play for 14 seconds. The music app does not seem to be getting much attention from Apple

oops.... Disregard. Recently played are finally updating!

The new IOS update 17.2 fixed the issue for me. Everything is working as expected.

The number of plays is not syncing on my microsoft laptop either

Im still having this problem...its really important to me....any new ideas???

I have the same problem on my iPhone 14 Pro. It seems that it happened after updating to iOS 17.1. The songs appear on the "Last played" playlist on my iPhone, but doesn't appear on the same playlist on any of the other devices that are synced with my Apple Music library. I have set the library to sync and the device to log to the last play log. It also seems that the last played albums appear on my "Listen now"-lists in Apple Music. I've set up so that my favourite songs are shuffled playing based on how long it is since I've heard them, so this is really annoying.

My play count sync stopped at October 24. All the music I listen on iPhone (12 PRO), Apple Watch (Series 8), iPad (6th Gen), and even MacBook Air (M2) doesn't upload to my Music App on iMac (4k 2017).

I always keep them updated. And have already restarted all my devices.

Done a few tips here and there, but none of my devices upload the play count to the cloud and can be seen on my Music App on iMac. Only the songs I listen on the iMac change the count and register the "Last time played".

October 24 is when play count stopped updating for me when songs play on my iPhone or Apple Watch. I have my itunes on a Windows PC where I can see the play counts and last played. Smart Playlists seem to sync between devices when I change the sort order and add or delete songs But regular playlists do not when changing order manually. I am not sure if there is a way to see play count on iPhone??