Why is Siri unable to play music from my Apple Music library?

Only fixed when hand held as all playlists now work. When in the car, carplay gives the same message as before, "looks like Apple Music cannot play that right now". This is useless as it is only in the car that I actually need this feature.

Still need fixing for Carplay.

I subscribe to Apple Music and I’m having the same issue. I can’t ask Siri to play anything in my Apple Music library. She will attempt to play it through Sirius, but it ends up being an interview of that artist on a radio show and no actual music. It’s infuriating.

I updated my iPhone 12 Mini to 17.6.1 this morning and, as of right now, this seems to be working again.

If I press and hold the Siri button on my phone and say "Shuffle (Playlist Name)" it works. (To be clear, my playlists are stored in the Music app on my phone, mostly in MP3 format. I'm not streaming.)

I haven't yet tried this with CarPlay and pressing the Siri button on my steering wheel.

Just updating my post: So as of 17.6.1, I can ask Siri to play a playlist stored on my phone by saying "Shuffle (Playlist Name)" BUT this doesn't work when I'm connected to CarPlay.

When I'm connected to CarPlay, Siri just says "Looks like Apple Music can't play that." If I'm not connected CarPlay, Siri can play my playlist just fine. Super weird.

Hey! I might be a bit late to this but promoting Siri like "Hey Siri, shuffle my <insert playlist name here> on Apple music" seems to work for me.

If you don't want Siri to shuffle your playlist, just prompt it using "Hey siri, play my <insert playlist name here> on Apple Music".

The trick here is to give your playlist a unique name so that Siri will instantly match your prompt with your playlist and start playing your playlist.

It gets a whole lot tricky if your playlist has common names like "Favourite songs" for example. At that point, Siri will traverse through Apple Music's catalogue and might play someone else's playlist.

Hope this helps! :)

Please share your response or solution from Apple if you get one. I would like to solve this. Thanks.

There’s a workaround by creating shortcuts for each of your your playlists. It works for now until Apple breaks that also.

It’s working as of today….

Apple update 17.6 available now solved the problem.

I can too finally say that it seems fixed now that I have downloaded IOS 17.6!

Why is this fix taking so long?

It works properly when I'm on wifi but if I'm on a cell connection it won't play my playlists. Toggling show Apple Music on and back off and enabling Music to use cellular data didn't help.

Apple does not admit that this is a problem because it is intentional.

This problem has existed for at least 6 months now. Apple should truly be ashamed of themselves for such poor quality. But they're making too much money to care, clearly.