Playlist Art on iPhone after IOS 13

I found a workaround that did the trick for me, but it's slightly labor-intensive, and not the same thumbnail as you had before. Assign each playlist it's own thumbnail. Tap the playlist thumbnail in Itunes, and you'll be prompted to save an image of your choice. I used album covers or pictures I found on Google Images, and saved to my PC. I added my own text to some of them, using MS Paint. I changed the thumbnails on iTunes in my computer, synced with my phone, and no more incorrect, shifting images.

I have iPhone SE with iOS 13, and iTunes on Windows 10, and, like you, I create/edit playlists in iTunes, then sync my phone. However, before syncing, I noticed that the playlists in my phone had the option to upload a different thumbnail by tapping the existing thumbnail on the phone itself, so that's probably another thing to try for those who don't sync with iTunes. I'm actually happier now in a way, because I got to choose my own thumbnails instead of the default, so a happy accident.

Here is how mine got fixed.

1. On the phone, I permanently deleted all playlists. This also deleted the playlist in iTunes.
2. Sync'd the phone (removing all music/playlist).
3. Created playlists manually again in iTunes. (I know, its a heck of a work if the collection is large).
4. in iTunes, selected the playlists I wanted to Sync to phone and hit the sync button.

Playlists are back on the phone without any issues with the album art now.

I'm on iOS 13.1 and iPhone 7.

Hope it helps.

Looks like the 13.3.1 update has finally fixed this issue! I just updated my iPhone X and all the playlist cover art is back to normal.

To anyone else having this issue, do the update and fingers crossed it will be resolved for you.

I have an iPhone 6s. I was having the same problem with scrambled playlist art for the past 6 months, since iOS 13 at the end of September 2019..... until NOW. I have just downloaded iOS 13.3.1 and my playlist art is FINALLY back to normal and no longer scrambling each time I play a new song in my library. Better late than never! Whew! I hope my act of sharing this good news will give others enough hope to download iOS 13.3.1.

It seems this issue finally got resolved with Ios 13.3.1 - at least with my iPad. ****, it only tok Apple 6 months to fix this. I am going to be very cautious in installing any new Ios in the future until they've worked out all the bugs.

I just did the latest IOS update 13.3.1 and it’s corrected!!! Yay!! All the album artwork is now correct and working. That sucked! But it’s fixed. Grab the update. 😀

Problem fixed for me after updating to iOS 13.3.1 ... did Not need to resync my iPhone XS Max with my Windows 10 iTunes.

It is doing the same for my Iphone XMax too, it is frustrating because I have the correct art of each single album and now that I have some new songs of artists I like I don't want to sync because of this problem.

I don't know if this would help guys but what I do is go to the playlist, duplicate it by putting any name then erase the wrongfully displayed playlist and then rename it with the actual artist and it is fixed. I must say that it's kinda a pain in the butt, mostly when you have 50 to 60 playlists like I do :/ I hope this helps guys and the next update fix this problem.

I found the same problem after upgrading my iPhone XR to IOS 13.1.2

I have been testing and looking at the results with both the Apple Music app and CS Music Player app 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 how much it costs but I am pretty sure it was under $5)

Finally fixed.

9/18/2019: iOS 13 released

1/28/2020: IOS 13.3.1 playlist art bug fixed

Hope my wifi stops dropping its connection as well. Time will tell...

The 13.3.1 update that's just been released fixes the cover art issue. Run the update and everything should be back to normal.

I miss that feature. Pretty good idea if there is no solution by tomorrow. Manually changing the artwork within the “Edit” of the playlist is still working for me. It’s a pain going one by one but works. I have a long ways to go before getting all my playlists corrected though.

OK gang, let's look at it this way: iTunes is going away with the next IOS (probably November, 2019). So I don't think the album art issue is going to be resolved. What I did: I decided to go with VOX app. There are others you can check out with this website. (https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-itunes-alternatives-for-mac/#bestoverall). I am testing VOX right now. It took me less than 5 minutes to download VOX, have it access my iTunes library -- with playlists. I'm sold. Next, I will subscribe (though it is not necessary) to VOX. Meanwhile: ALL MY ALBUM ART IS CORRECT!!!!

My scenario:

- macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave) iMac Late 2015

- iTunes 12.9.5.5

- iOS 13.1.3 iPhone 11 Pro Max

- iTunes configured to sync `Entire music library`

- Many songs were displaying album covers of other songs

- Album and artist covers were displayed correctly

My suspicion is that a database cache is used to speed displaying album covers

or similar behaviour and that became corrupt at some stage during my iPhone

upgrade or subsequent syncing with iTunes.

The correct album covers were still embedded in each song file on my iMac, so

assuming the bug that causes the corruption is fixed in or before iOS 13.1.3,

forcing a re-sync of the entire music collection should rebuild the cache.

Hopefully this works for everyone else and I wasn't just lucky.

The following actions fixed it for me:

Note that creating and syncing a temporary playlist is probably unnecessary,

but is the actual sequence I performed, so I've included it just in case it

matters. It's also a quick way to check that the fix is going to work before

re-syncing the entire collection.

I recommend performing backups of both the iTunes host machine and the iPhone beforehand

1. Create a temporary playlist with one example song with incorrect album

cover for testing purposes

2. Select the iPhone in iTunes

3. Click on `Music` in the sidebar

4. Select option to sync `Selected playlists, artists, albums and genres`

5. Select only the temporary playlist created in step 1

6. Click `Apply` to sync the changes

7. All previously synced music is removed from the iPhone, leaving only the

single song in the temporary playlist, which still displays the song with

the wrong album cover

8. Deselect the temporary playlist in iTunes

9. Select another playlist that does not include the song in the temporary

playlist

10. Click `Apply` to sync the changes

11. The newly synced playlist should be showing the correct album covers

12. In iTunes, select the option to sync `Entire music library`

13. Click `Apply` to re-sync the remaining songs to the iPhone

Apple has not released any iOS version fixing this issue.

I found a workaround by doing the following:

1- I downloaded and installed on my iPhone a third-party music player. I chose VOX, free version.

2- I imported/rebuilt (don't remember exactly) the Music Playlist inside VOX. (In French, it's "Collections" - I don't know the English corresponding word on the iPhone application.)

3- After doing so, I don't recall exactly how long and what I did, but after closing and reopening Music, all Playlists were displaying the proper album cover(s).

-JJ C.- France

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