iOS 13 Music App album art is incorrect.

Yes, happening with Mac iTunes. On my MBP15 the images are correct in iTunes. But synching to iPhone 8, the images in the list of Playlists will show the correct images on playlists near the top, but as you scroll down farther they change randomly. If I scroll back to the top those have changed, scroll again back farther down and playlists there have new 'random' images of artists from my other playlists.

Yep , I also use MacBooks and the same issue. What is astounding is that after Apple test releases for months and through several betas , they still come up with such a basic issue like this ? Perhaps they have stopped caring about all stuff but this is basic hygiene. Must have it right as millions of users can SEE it every single day .

I volunteer to be a tester for all iTunes stuff for Apple for free ! Unless they know about it and still went ahead and ignored it.

Thanks - I was on the same track (I think) as KK Mac, where Apple has announced iTunes going away on Macs (staying on Windows), so wouldn't be surprised if this is the first sign of de-supporting the platform... :(

In order to work around the fact that 'Albums' shows me every single album that any song belongs to, I have gone the route of creating playlists for full albums, as well as collection playlists for groups of individual songs across many albums. As a result, I have many many playlists on my library and device. The 'album art' bug is annoying, I had no idea how visual I was in using the Music app on my phone... And I agree that its crazy that something this fundamental in the Music app wasn't surfaced, or addressed, in beta testing.

This is an awful bug! I'm having the same issues on my MacBook with iPhone XS / iOS 13.1. It seems to repeat the last 15 images that have been added, but also some of the artwork matches some albums on my playlists. It seems random and its a complete and total mess. I hope there is a fix very soon.

I found the same problem after upgrading my iPhone XR to IOS 13.1

I have been testing and looking at the results with both the Apple Music app and a third party app: the CS Music Player app from the Apple App Store on the same iPhone.

The results were interesting as well as surprising:

There is a definite artwork disconnect in playlists when using the Apple Music app.

There is NO PLAYLIST/ARTWORK DISCONNECT WHATSOEVER when using the CS Music Player app on the same iPhone!!

To me this means that playing around with the music library on my iPhone would be a total waste of time. The problem is not a library or database problem: The problem is with the IOS 13 version of the Apple Music app. I am sure Apple with look at these posts and eventually fix the problem. Since this is probably not a priority for Apple, I would suggest using the CS Music Player app from the App Store. (I purchased this years ago when the Apple Music app had a different problem that Apple was slow to fix, so I don't remember exactly how much it costs but I am pretty sure it was under $3, and it is VERY much worth the money!! ) I think that the CS Music Player has a nicer front end anyway for my music library.

End result: For now, I am using the CS Music Player app instead of the Apple Music app for my music enjoyment. (at least until Apple gets their stuff together)

Also, I have a lot of playlist...I’ve noticed the first 14 in the list start out with the correct thumbnails. Then after that they repeat those same preview down the list (as others have stated too).

Now, I found, when I scroll thru all my playlists, to the last, back to the top, the art work randomly gets assigned to each playlist. When I scroll thru a few times, eventually some in the list don’t get a preview art work, so I selected one of the artless playlist, just to see if the correct art is under the actual song list is still there. When I do this, it’s a total blank page, no songs or anything. It will let you back out to select another list, but then with art work or not, all list are blank, forcing you to totally close out of the app, and restarting to the same ‘every 14 playlists the same art repeats’ . So, yeah it’s still useable, just don’t scroll to fast thru your lists, or it ends up crashing. I hope there’s a 13.1.2, or a 13.2 update soon.

I am experiencing this issue, too. IOS 13.1.2 on iPhone 11 Pro. Artwork in Music App on iPhone is incorrect. I am syncing my music using iTunes 12.10.0.7. So, everything I am using is up to date. This is not acceptable, Apple.

IOS 13 has nearly bricked both my iphone & my ipad. Album art is completely wrong on the phone and there is nothing but a dead frozen itunes on my ipad. Not to mention all the other issues this terribly buggy OS had presented me with. I'm beyond disappointed with the readiness of this "update" what if I needed these units for work or family related needs... Apple, you're slipping.

So glad to have found this thread. I'm still an iPhone 7+ user and I have the same problem with the new IOS messing up my playlist album art. I hope this is resolved soon. I have way too many playlists to do a manual deletion and recreation which I see some forums are advising.

I switched from an iPhone 8 to an 11 Pro and used the device to device setup which copied everything including my music over to the 11 Pro. All the album art was correct after finishing the setup.

Today I decided to back my phone up to iTunes and make a few playlist updates. When I synced the phone it messed up ALL of the album art on my phone. I have tried resyncing numerous times and still no luck. When I look "On My Device" through iTunes at the "Music" it shows all of the tracks greyed out with a circle comprised of dashes as if the music is not on my phone at all. But I can go to my phone and play every track just fine.

I have this issue too... in addition, my photo albums from my Photos app on my Mac are copying over to my iPhone and iPad Pro all mixed up too. I think this is an IOS issue as someone else has commented.

I also have my music app album art work on the wrong song group for half my play list and I have a iPhone 11 pro max and have ver 13.1.2 It seem to happen after I activated my iPhone. I did clear my music list on my iPhone and connected the phone to my MacBook pro and sync it back up and reinstalled the selected songs and album and still same problem.

So glad I found this thread. It's irritating to have the wrong playlist displayed visually. I teach a fitness class and use my playlist daily. I would love to get an answer to this. I would not have upgraded if I had known this would be an issue.