Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

My phone updated to 18.1 yesterday and things are much improved. The crashes after switching between playlists has been fixed, the very slow response when starting to play has been fixed, too. However, it still, occasionally, continues to show the previous song as playing when it’s finished and moved on to the next one, and s new feature has crept in. Not an important one, other than as an indicator all is not well, but occasionally (NOT every time), if I’ve been looking through a play list, when I exit out the screen re-centres itself higher up my list of playlists. So all told, much improved but could do better.

I have constant Music issues after updating to IOS18, from artwork to listings. I have music on my phone, sync'd from iTunes, that is there and can be played but only by searching for a song. The artist and album names do not appear under Artist or Album title, even when I use the search facility.

My concern is I had several custom stations I made in Apple Music radio, and they are gone. So I remade one and the apparent playlist it creates has like a handful of artists and it seems to repeat them all on a random cycle…why and I paying for that?

since iOS 18 I can’t search for a song within my playlist and click on it. When I do the app freezes hard. The song will play after maybe 30 seconds to a minute, but that essentially renders that function useless. It’s been a month of this.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION ?:

OK, I found a remedy to part of this issue, at least for my problems. I was unable to see playlists and songs loaded from my Library on my Mac after the 18 updates. I downgraded back to 17.7 just to have a workable option and that worked fine.

Basically, I backed up my entire phone to my Mac, and then did a factory reset on the device without transferring back my data back in. Once the refresh was done, I updated it to 18.1 and then restored from my backup. However, I still had the same issue where Music on the iPhone didn't recognize my songs and playlists, even though they showed up in Finder and on the Music app on desktop.

I then told Music to sync my library and stopped the sync before it could finish, and for some reason, it loaded my music and playlists from the desktop app as I needed it to. Not sure what part forced it to resync properly, but I now have a working app on the phone, including streaming.

tbh, I think I stumbled into this solution, so if you decide to try it, good luck.(Your mileage may vary)

Totally agree with ‘Oldoiler’ comment. Apple historically has the ‘take it or leave it attitude because we are smarter than you’ approach. It may be time to look for other Music Library Management options.

I did and it didn't do one single thing to help. In fact, it seems to have made even more songs grayed out with the message, "This item is not currently available in your country or region.", in addition to all of the other screwups it has caused. Heck, itunes won't even update the album art on my iphone or ipad, if it can even find it in it's own music vaults which practically contain every song written since the beginning of mankind.

I'm getting close to just deleting the entire library. The fact that it controls my music; the music that I OWN and tells me that it is not available is infuriating beyond words. I have already wasted WAY too much time trying to repair my itunes library.

Knowing that my itunes library is not complete on my iphone and ipad makes me not even want to use them anymore to play music, simply from the fact that, it's NOT ALL there.

This same thing happened to me years ago with an ios update and I don't recall what the fix was at the time, but I don't recall it being anywhere as bad as 18.XXX.

Good luck

In looking more and more into my itunes library, I'm seeing that it's actually FUBAR. It has deleted a lot of songs from albums, if not all of the songs and the complete album.

In addition to that, I have some albums that I downloaded "legally" years ago from sites that were free at the time, but now are not. Bad on me for not burning those downloads to a CD for backup, because itunes has deleted all of the songs off of each album, except for one song.

Lots of people dis physical CD's in this day and age, but these itunes issues are the reason that I still buy physical CD's so that I have a concrete backup of each album. Now I'll make sure to burn downloads as well.

One more thing regarding folks that have "solved the problem". I have learned over the years that itunes, and almost anything Apple that is a bug from a certain software update does not affect everyone in the same way. So, one person's fix doesn't necessarily fix everyone's problems. I appreciate people sharing their "fixes" that worked for them, but they don't apply across the board.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

18.1.1 installed a couple of days ago, no change, I still have the same issues. Nowhere near as bad as some of the people commenting on here.

Maybe I’m one of the lucky ones, slow starts and occasional crashes are an annoyance, but at least it plays everything and no songs have gone missing or not played due to Region.

Yes! Adding a song to a playlist is tortuously slow, and I can watch the app process unfold in slow-mo as the graphics flash off and on. This is my primary complaint. I have not suffered some of the more egregious problems experienced by others. What did they do to precipitate such a varied consequence to their users?

I now use my iPad (not upgraded) to maintain my library and playlists. Not convenient, but more efficient and less frustrating. We all expected better.

Two problems surfaced since installing v 18 1 wk ago:

1. Using AirPlay on iPhone15 to play song and Album Artwork from iTunes playlist onto a smart TV, the Album Artwork projection on TV is noticeably SMALLER in center of TV screen. Gives appearance it has been crammed in a box.
2. Using CarPlay with a high end music system in car, the Audio quality is significantly inferior after v18 update. The sound is ‘raspy’ and broken up. Totally UNACCEPTABLE. Was on phone with 4 level Apple Tech support and they could not fix problem. Suspicion is Apple made decisions to compromise features to balance ‘streaming overhead’.

My Apple Music is glitching after updating it to iOS 18. Any song I play is stopping and starting on its own.

I am using Amazon Music, and noticed right away that the sound quality is terrible since the update. Edit, forgot to add that I am using Apple pro headphones as usual.

ive had pretty much all the same issues its really annoying to search things up in playlists and its super laggy and crashy so apple please fix what ever you did