Playlist Art on iPhone after IOS 13

Hello,


Is anyone else encountering the issue of playlist art not showing the correct album art on the iPhone after updating to IOS 13? Yesterday, I updated my old iPhone X to the new IOS and it messed up the album art on my playlists on my iPhone. I just purchased the iPhone 11 Pro today and I was hoping would the issue wouldn’t be there but it still persists. In fact, it seems to randomly select a covert art for a playlist each time I open the music app. However, when I click on the actually playlist the correct album art is there. I know this is minor issue for some, but it is annoying the crap out of me right now lol.


I’m old school in that I manage all of my music via iTunes on windows and I don’t use the cloud at all. I just prefer to do it this way because I have a ton of music that I imported years ago via CD from back in my high school days. Anyone encountering this issue currently? I’ve tried re-syncing all of the music on my phone several times, uninstalling iTunes on my pc and reinstalling it, and cleaning the cache. I’ve had this happen in the past but can’t remember what I did to fix it. The album art is correct on my pc, and correct once I select a playlist on my phone. It’s just wrong when I’m looking at all of my playlists on my phone.


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Posted on Sep 20, 2019 8:04 PM

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Posted on Nov 4, 2019 8:05 PM

My playlist art, once I moved to iOS13.1 and later to 13.2 were scrambled and incorrect. I finally solved this by adding the artwork that I wanted for the playlist in iTunes and then re-syncing the phone.


Step-by-step

1) In iTunes, choose Music to see all your playlists on the left side.

2) Select the playlist that has the wrong cover on your phone so that the playlist and songs appear in the right pane.

3) Double-click the album art on the top of that list (yes it works) and a popup window will allow you to select an image. Just select an image that you want. I used a 500x500 pixel jpg or png image that I copied from one of the songs in the playlist.

4) Do this for all the playlists that you have.

5) Sync your phone


This worked for me - after trying unsuccessfully to solve by

1) changing all the artwork on each song,

2) deleting all music and re-synching,

3) deleting the Album Art cache and rebuilding.

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Dec 19, 2019 2:14 PM in response to silverdalex

The fix is re-creating the playlist art. Take a copy of a cover of one of the tracks. Then double click on the main playlist art and replace it with the art you just saved. Now if you have hundreds of playlists this will be a pain but i fixed my art for 60 lists in an hour or so. Now mine is fine. No issues. Yes Apple should fix it but at the moment this is a workaround.

Jan 29, 2020 3:41 PM in response to alcilan

I can also report with the 13.3.1 update did fix my iTunes album artwork on my phone. finally. I hope that apple in the future will do a better job at testing before releasing ios 14. this was a problem for what, 4 almost 5 months. steve jobs is rolling over in his grave. come on apple get it together. if you don't I have a feeling u will start to lose customers. you were always the gold standard lets get back there.

Feb 14, 2020 2:40 PM in response to Crazy4Motorbikes

OMG, your right I just ran the update for 13.3.1 and all album art on the folders corrected itself, I didn't have to remove any songs and put them back either. Guess I jumped the gun on that one, but I also noticed others mention that it didn't work for them, unfortunate I guess. They never did fix my issues with iTunes on my old iphone 7, it would literally take me 5-6 hours to put one song on that phone because it would sit there and say "copying diagnostic information" forever! I guess I still have a little animosity form that. Peace out!

May 21, 2020 7:53 AM in response to jlj90

I'm having the same issue on iPhone 11 with the latest iOS release (13.5). It just started in the past few days. Songs with the wrong cover art, playlists with the wrong cover art, etc. I tried removing all music and re-adding it, but the issue remained (it fixed some of the songs/playlists that had the wrong cover art, but then other songs/playlists had the wrong cover art).

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