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Has anyone experienced issues with Apple Music in iOS 18? For example, audio quality lowered despite Dolby Atmos and EQ off? Or trying to scroll through your playlist and the app crashes?
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iPhone 15, iOS 18
Me. So thankful to find someone else with this issue. My Apple Music has been almost unusable since the upgrade to iOS 18. Crashes when scrolling a playlist, crashes when trying to remove songs from a playlist. Won’t let me edit larger playlist. Also freezes a lot, is super slow, and the audio quality has decreased. I have been on basically a 4 day phone call with a Apple Senior Adviser about this and they can’t figure it out, plus they say nobody else besides me has reported to them issues with Apple Music on iOS 18. Which is hard for me to believe. The tech is calling me back tomorrow with what his bosses said about the screen recordings i sent them showing my issues. I’ve done every troubleshooting step they can think of except reinstalling iOS 18. I hope they can figure it out cause it’s annoying me to no end not being able to use my music.
iTunes Music from iPhone15 Audio Quality using CarPlay is significantly decreased after v18 Upgrade. Called Apple Tech support up 4 levels for help. Could not fix problem. Did Apple make a business decision to compromise quality of CarPlay Audio and AirPlay Album Artwork to open bandwidth capacity and move it to other products?
It deleted every single song I had downloaded that’s 3 years worth, and when I try to redownload the playlists it says song is not available in my region like 8+ times and it won’t let me download it. Everything’s being really slow, and my phone keeps freezing really bad and I have the iPhone 13.
This is a little late, but ever since the ios 18 update, my music libraries on my iphone and ipad pro have been totally screwed up. Almost every song was duplicated. If this wasn't bad enough, it removed a bunch of songs from the albums. However, the main library on the Mac M1 is fine.
I have resynced my iphone and ipad pro to my Mac and it has only made it worse. Now I have duplicate songs again and it has separated songs out of albums and made numerous albums that all of the songs for, should be under one album.
Keep in mind, I have about 1300 albums on my iMac. I have been trying to fix this for weeks. I do not subscribe to Apple Music, but I do have the Apple Music Sharing subscription or whatever it is that adds everything automatically to each device. No matter what settings I apply under Finder or in sync settings in itunes will remedy this.
The last thing that I want to do is delete my entire library on my Mac and reburn every CD individually. This isn't the first time this has happened. Some years ago under ios 14 or so the same thing happened.
Apple is turning into Win(blows).
Song audio quality significantly inferior after iOS v 18 upgrade. The sound via CarPlay, is like listening to song on a digital radio station when you are not yet set on the exact channel. Very upsetting and unacceptable because prior to iOS v18, audio via CarPlay was excellent.
Running 18.1 and it's been happening since 18. Glad it's not only me. Apple Music plays for a few seconds then stops. Repeatedly. Sometimes it'll play fine, but other times, it's useless. I notice that it also happens when I have my AirPod Pro 2 in. Not sure if it's happening anyway, but it's getting to be not much fun listening to ANYTHING because of the constant freezing and interruptions.
Its terrible. Now it orders The albums by year…. But only Give you The option of going through the most recent one to the oldest one, destroying the “reading” order and the flow of evolution in The artist career.
Forgive me if you have already tried this.
You'll notice in itunes in the upper righthand corner there is the little magnifying glass and just to the left of it is a little down arrow and three horizontal lines.
Go over to the left side and under library highlight your albums. Then go back to the little down arrow in the upper righthand side and click down to the "Sort Options" and click on it. It will give you other options to sort your albums.
If it's not there for you, then it's another one of the inconsistent bugs that affects different users in different ways.
I may completely be misunderstanding you though.
Cheers!
I actually have a follow up call on Monday so if anything changes I will let you know. If I wasn’t invested in Apple Music I’d switch lol!
I also had this issue since I have had it but it seems to be getting better.
Apple Music also won't stream for me on cellular data. It will play about a dozen songs and then stop and go back to the original song. It works fine on wifi but terribly on cellular data
iOS 18 upgrade music search screen freezes on iPad. I would type what I'm looking for results would shows but then the screen would freeze. Tech. support could not help.
Songs in my Apple Music playlists repeat even though they appear once. Selecting next song moves on.
I have similar problem witch my iPhone 13, tidal and usb DAC - audio is low quality and it’s not my feeling but I see it on led indicator on DAC
The “Go to Artist”
option appears to be gone now as well.
Yes - this is exactly the problem I am having when streaming to my HomePods from phone, iPad and ATV - driving me nuts
Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update
