Playlist Art on iPhone after IOS 13

I know what you mean; this would not be practical for anyone with hundreds of playlists. I only have a couple dozen playlists, so it’s ok for someone with fewer playlists who doesn’t mind the new art.

I'm so glad I found this thread. I've searched forums on the internet with no resolution. I'm experiencing the very same issue with the "Recently Added" section on the phone. I pretty much did everything you did, from restore to moving all songs from my phone and then re-syncing to no avail. It's certainly frustrating

I didn't know you can assign art to the Playlist. I prefer to just have the Playlist automatically show the prevalent album art in the songs listed in the playlist. If there are multiple albums (e.g. several albums from the same artist in a discography collection), it used to show up to 4 different album covers.

Maybe the iOS after 13.1 will fix it ?

Same problem here. There seem to be a number of these threads now. I've done everything I could think of with my iPhone 8 and Windows 10 iTunes and it still keeps randomly selecting wrong album art from those available. I've discussed the matter with Apple Support on Twitter but with living in the UK, plus the many other issues they are dealing with, it was taking forever and few actually suggestions. They're now wanting to phone me but I'm waiting until I've seen what happens after the 13.1 update.

I have 13.1 public beta, and the problem still existed. However, Apple will surely fix it soon. For my playlists of same artist, I used a picture of the artist, and for same genre playlists, I used fun, stylized images that reads “Jazz” or “80’s” or whatever. I know its not a great solution, but I found it interesting, and thought someone else might find it useful.

iOS 13.1 came out today ... haven't had a chance to download it yet ... can anyone confirm the bug is still there (probably would be, since iOS 13.1 was release almost 1 week early ... doubt the Developers are even working on it)

guys I've just updated to 13.1 and sync my all songs over itunes nothing's changed the problem still persist and really irritating me hope they get it solved. i dont know if anyone issued this to apple dev team. but 13.1 didnt help at all

iOS 13.1 did not fix the issue.

It's not a big deal until it is and at this point it's a big deal. You can no longer visually browse your music. Annoying.

Re-sync of the library doesn't help. Artwork is still randomly assigned.

Hi @DeadGlory

Thanks for letting us know.

I tried deleting/restoring just one playlist, but it didn't work.

Maybe the trick is to delete EVERYTHING off the phone?

I've backed up most of my Playlists into .txt files, so hopefully I don't need to create new ones.

but I'm still going to wait for iOS 13.2+ before taking such drastic measures ... I'm sure others with a HUGE number of playlists will not be impressed with this workaround.

Another problem is, until Apple resolves the issue, what's to say the next iOS update doesn't bugger the playlists up again?

It wouldn't be efficient to delete/restore playlists after every iOS update.

It's happening with my 11 pro max as well. I remember this use to happen before. What you have to do is delete the iTunes media folder on you pc or mac. The one that holds the music going to your phone. Haven't done it in a while but I will report back when I do it later.

That sounds scary. Let me know how it works. I deleted all music from my phone in settings under music and reloaded my playlists after selecting not to sync music in iTunes on my computer. Did not work.

DO NOT DELETE YOUR MEDIA FOLDER. It holds ALL OF YOUR MEDIA, and if you delete it you can't then put it back on your phone, because IT'S DELETED. The media folder is not just what's on your phone, it's everything in your library, fullstop.

I just updated my iPhone 8 to 13.1. I have used iTunes on my Mac's for a very long time and have tons of music. I have created 60 or so playlists over the years. After the update the Playlist Icon doesn't match what the Playlist is. I nearly seems the icons are repeating in sequence. Luckily inside the tracks are what the name says. This is disheartening to say the least. Hey Apple, spend some time on this!

This happened to me too for my 7 plus and I cannot correct it. Also, not sure if related, but after the update my car radio can no longer track skip over a usb connection in playlists. It works in the main music library, so it may be related to this other weird album art cover. As it stands now I’d have better control over an AUX cable, if only I had the port...