Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

I am also having an issue with iTunes since updating to ios18. For me, iTunes won’t play. I’ll press the play button and nothing happens but a flash of the pause button. Closing the app does nothing. Only way to reset is to restart the phone. It will work but then when I pause and go back to play, it does the same thing again.

Also, a separate issue - my phone has randomly shut off and then rebooted…3x!!!

Just updated to iOS 18.0.1 thinking all the Music app problems everyone and myself

have been experiencing since updating to 18 (huge download lag times, playlist

add timeouts, playing/forwarded songs taking forever) would solve all our

issues, and it didn't fix anything!!! What is going on?!

Yes I will definitely let you know what they tell me, I’m hoping they put out an update with fixes as well just hope it doesn’t take too long before it is released.

I don’t use apple music paid service as all music help locally but i noticed after signing into to my apple ID all my locally created playlist had gone. I synced up via iTunes and as soon as I signed back into apple they got deleted.

I spoke with Apple Tech Support yesterday. She tried a buncha things on her end, some more button pushing on my end, end result is that the problem is not fixed/workaround, it's just different now. Still missing a gob of songs from iPhone -> iTunes -> Purchased. She suspected they were "hidden". She did something at her end to unhide a bunch of them, but not all. I had tried "Unhide All" a few days ago, but it didn't seem to do anything. Today that's gone.

I have provided a buncha data to them for analysis. She recommended that I not put a lotta effort into fixing/workaround at this time. Wait for a bug fix. Then start cleaning things up.

Anything I do now might be a total waste of time because the bug behavior is sporadic and it might break something I thought I had fixed/workaround yesterday.

This looks like a database corruption problem. iTunes has always had issues with creeping crud in the database, but this is a whole new level. It's possible that the hotfix may be unable to repair the database damage, and we'll have to rebuild our music library from scratch.

My experience and recommendation is to stop trying to fix something that's fundamentally broken, we can't find a workaround that doesn't get undone or some other problem manifests when Music goes insane again tomorrow. Imma just suffer through it, use what limited functionality it still has, and wait for a fix. I've wasted cumulatively two whole days on this, and I'm no better off than I was before. Different, but not fixed.

The app has so many ridiculous bugs. I dunno if it's the app itself or related to iOS, but this is one of the saddest updates to an app I can remember. It feels like whatever features were added were not necessary and have broken this app.

Ok new update from me - I got my new iPhone 16 Pro Max today, synced my music to it and guess what? Having the SAME issues on the new phone. I’m not sure what to do at this point we shouldn’t have to pay for something that doesn’t work or that we can’t even get an estimated time frame of when it will be fixed.

Another thing...and this is also aggravating to no end. the dynamic album art feature defaults to an incorrect album cover. Case in point Van Halen II and Women and Children First shows dynamic album art from Van Halen The collection. And I haven't seen where you can defeat dynamic album art anywhere. UGH! Apple got it all wrong for Music on this latest iOS update I am afraid. FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!

OMG! I thought I was alone on this. I am a heavy Apple Music user and it keeps crashing. The songs will mix together 15+ seconds before the current song ends. Additionally, the app keeps deleting downloaded songs, especially "Saturn" by SZA. I have deleted the current song, but the file won’t delete until a day or so. Once I try to download it again, it does not download nor does it save back in my library for another day. I can still listen to it by searching it on Apple Music as opposed to my library, yet I can’t do that if I’m in the subway or somewhere without internet. 😔

For Apple to say no problems with Apple Music after the ios18 update is ridiculous. I have intermittently experienced many of the issues described in this thread, although I would not go so far as to say it renders the app unusable. It surely does render it extremely irritating. I love exploring their library and discovering new music, then saving it in the appropriate playlist(s). That *was* beautiful. Now my primary and ever present complaint: what used to occur nearly instantly now consumes upwards of 30 seconds. Click to save to a playlist and…dummydum dummydum…thumbs a-twiddling…waiting…waiting… This goes beyond clunky.

Had another call today with the senior advisor who said the higher ups said the timestamps on my diagnostics log and my screen recordings didn’t match but that they do see a error in the diagnostics log that I’m getting so we had to do the diagnostics and screen recordings all over again, so got yet ANOTHER call for Friday. I asked him if they can see a issue in the log why does it matter what the timestamps say, and he said that they need to know what my phone is doing at the exact same time the actions are performed in the screen recordings. I’m close to having no hope with this. I’ve literally been on this call back repeats with the senior advisor since a day or so after iOS 18 released. But I guess we will see, will update you all again Friday.

Same thing here. Virtually not usable. Pretty sad for a paid service that crashes, hangs, lags, etc. Apple knows, but will never admit. Reminds me of a Windows product. Also causes all 3 of my ipads to get very hot. Looking at alternative music services. I live for my music. Lesson learned. Don’t be so quick to update software.

I use my legacy music tracks on my Mac hard drive. this is music I've paid for or ripped over the years from CD's. lots of Operas, Broadway shows, and concert and classical music.

I tried to 'send a' to my HomePod mini the other day after upgrading to 18.0.1. It basically said that in order to play MY OWN tracks I would have to pay for Apple Music +.

I managed after several tries to get a playlist play on my HomePod mini, but the screen on my iPhone 16 would not show what was playing. Then, it would stop playing.

If this keeps up, Android is starting to look like it's going to make a comeback.

the iPhone 16 Pro Max with 512 GB of space is turning into a buggy phone, with software to match.

I installed 18.0.1 yesterday, no difference; still crashing, still taking an age to change to a different playlist, still jerky when scrolling. Maybe it wasn't supposed to fix anything, but if it was it hasn't worked :-(