Playlist Art on iPhone after IOS 13

I'm uncomfortable with upgrading to Catalina, too! I hate that they're doing away with iTunes the way it was. I watched a video on YouTube where a person was demonstrating using iTunes Match to get the music on the device, and there were a lot of issues with some of the files (maybe files that were ripped from a CD or came from another source). Some of them were not syncing to the device anymore, and it appeared there was no way to fix it. Incorrect album art would be the least of my worries at that point! I've spent so much time compiling and organizing my library that it pains me to think that all my music won't sync correctly. It feels like the goal here is to have everyone to get their music directly from Apple and nowhere else. I'm really frustrated and not sure what to do.

I actually agree with all of you about updating to Catalina. if they want you to use the Apple Music app so bad, make it available to Mojave users... updating to Catalina is not a minor upgrade. And, So I don’t get censored I will say that Apple and I have had our disagreements over the years. I wouldn’t even be using apple stuff to the extent that I do (if at all.... maybe an iPod at best), but I do pro audio stuff and I have been there and done that in a Windows environment.... it’s bad, lol.... so, unfortunately, I am stuck with Apple. Only like one plugin that I own and logic is supported on Catalina.... the computer I updated, that I sync my iOS devices to, I don’t do music production on.... infancy, all I use are Apple products, office, and an application that allows me to make video files from DVDs to put on my Plex server. however all of my other computers have Mojave, and since so little software I have is supported on it yet, I will not be updating for quite some time. I understand that since Catalina is such a big update, that they don’t want to put Apple Music on Mojave, but at the same time, they should have not left is in the dark and made us figure all this out on our own, so a big thank you to Apple for that!!!! And as far as the syncing via iCloud, I kind of figured that would be riddled with bugs, so I am glad I found the way of syncing old school!!!! Anyone on Windows, please let me know how it works out with you guys!!!!

Good to know they are aware and hopefully fixing the issue. Album view is subpar. If you have a mixed playlist (Workout Mix or Best of the 70s) each song / artist from that playlist would have an album cover. And if you have multiple mixed playlists the album view is sort of pointless with all these one song album covers. The playlist view is crucial.

I am thinking of just deleting all music from the iPhone itself. If I do that and then resync with iTunes the fact that music was deleted from the phone will not impact anything on my computer, right? It should just resync the library to the phone, correct?

I am one of many who are experiencing this. It has affected my two iPads as well as my iPhone, it is really inconvenient. What has happened to quality control. How much testing was done before release? It also appears that the new MacOS has problems too. Come on Apple get your act together.

This is really absurd. This last update has 1) Completely messed up my playlist images, 2) Completely stopped me from being able to text my android friend users and 3) messed up 4 out 5 of my mail accounts. What gives????? Only 12 pages of complaints here. I just cant believe this.

I have turned off auto update and deleted the downloaded updates on my iPads and other iPhones. Apple has until November to fix this before I go completely Android when all of our devices come up for renewal and upgrades. That’s 4 iPads, 5 iPhones, 3 MacBook pros and 1 iMac mini. Family is making a move to something stable.

You don't think apple will be ashamed, do you? The problem is that there is no concurrence on the planet for them.

The only thing is to wait and in the meantime to depose plaints where one can.

For me it is clear. I will not move to the new system until it will be VERY stable.

I had enough with this small update to iOS 13, imagine Catalina ...

And I will not buy ANY hardware that forces me to change the system.

Only for the climate a system change would do good.

How big is your library? How many playlists do you have? I am a bit concerned about doing this as my library is 150gb with 17,000 tracks and videos. How long would it take to reimport this library and does it recognize what I bought from iTunes?

Lots of questions.

My Library is 326gb. I have ~90 playlists that I sync to the phone. That number changes as I only keep music that I’m currently listening to on the phone. I imported music in batches of 200 album folders per and it took a full day to complete. All purchased iTunes music imported with no issue.

I heard about the bugs ... waited for 13.1.4 just did the upgrade and same problem . Some of mine are ok and the rest aren't. Im actually leery about syncing my phone to my computer cause I don't want it to screw up playlists on my computer

I like many here have a HUGE music library over 60 Gb. It started back with an old iPod mechanical wheel and now on my iPhone 7. Some of it was from purchased iTunes and others from legit online mp3 purchases but most of it was from over 600 ripped CD’s.

I’ve been an avid Apple owner for 16 years. Been through some ups and downs. I must say though, over the last 4-5 years things have been much more volatile and unreliable than the prior decade (I’ll let the read speculate on the cause).

I upgraded to IOS13 very early and then applied the 13.1 patch and most recently the 13.1.3 patch. NONE OF THESE have modified or fixed the iTunes music play/display on my iPhone.

I almost exclusively use my iPhone (previously was iPod) for my audio listening pleasure. I’m often in places where wifi or internet is very limited so online streaming ISN’T an option.

Since ios13, my music on my iPhone plays in some random order and NOT the track order of the CD. I have gone into iTunes on my mac and changed the order (was set to ‘Playlist’ in the newest iTunes and I have no idea what that means). Now on iTunes on my Mac things are somewhat correct although the change is TEDIOUS at best as one has to go into each and every playlist and modified the sort order, add/remove sort columns and then click on the correct sort.

I did that and resync’d to my iPhone and iPad but both continue to play the songs in some random order. This is MOST unappealing for the continuous CD’s that I have of mixed tracks. They now play is random order so the mix is all screwed up. And, yes I have set these to complication types in iTunes.

How is the world do software developers put this trash out as an official release?

It is unfathomable that Apple is doing so poorly with software releases recently. I personally believe this is related to the decision to “discontinue iTunes” to force us to pay for Apple Music service. BTW - Apple has even unable to tell me what will happen with my music library is I start to use Apple Music. I have rare CDs I have ripped that are in my library. And I have specific versions of albums and songs that I believe sound better then more recent remasters. I don’t want Apple mucking with my music library. FIND ME SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THE SOFTWARE WILL DO!!!!!

You could be right about the whole iTune> Apple Music but I'm assuming they will realize they can only pull so much s&@t before people will just give up on Apple. I feel like they've done this before ... took away Camera Roll on one upgrade and incurred such wrath it was back in a week or two. Bern an Apple person forever but getting over it!

I agree with you. I have hi res files of My music and do not want Apple Music to replace them with mp3 files. I have bought all my musics from Apple or ripped them from CDs. >17,000 tracks. Good news is that if they do begins to replace my files, I have them backed up and I will move away from Apple completely. That’s 5 iPhones, 3 iPads, 4 computers. iTunes if the only reason I have stayed with Apple and if they change, I no longer need them and will make the change. My brother keeps nagging me to move to Samsung Android. Maybe he’s right and is time.

RL