Playlist Art on iPhone after IOS 13

Yes, deleting one or more didn't help me. Deleting everything resolved the issue but then again.. this is not how Apple should be treating us.

My Mac has upgraded to the newest IOS. I reluctantly synced my phone to the computer to add a new playlist. After the sync, it was back to normal. I am hoping this has cured the problem.

Go to iTunes, Click on the 3 dots at the top right of your playlist, click on copy play order and your artwork will change to the first 4 songs on your playlist

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.

I have a temporary fix but it’s time consuming. I had to get a new phone since my iPhone 7 was on it’s second battery and was dead in the water. I had over 300 playlists on my 7 256GB, so for the Pro Max11 I’m adding them slowly changing the artwork above the list of songs through phone screenshots of the album covers (Amazon ,Discogs etc) as soon as I add the playlist. It beats the musical chairs of artwork scrambling around and simple. Just a pain. I shouldn’t have to do this but for me this is working. So far I have 63 playlists with no artwork issues. Apple should be the ones telling us they fixed the bug.

Just resent another Bug notification to https://www.apple.com/feedback/.

Perhaps if we bombard them enough, they'll get the hint?

"I want to report a problem that Apple knows about but still hasn't fixed.

I refer you to: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-13-beta-5-%E2%80%95-bug-fixes-changes-and-improvements.2191695/

i.e. In iOS 13, "Playlist artwork still shuffles randomly and never match the right artwork after using music app for a while."

And if you go here, you'll see lots of people are affected, so I don't want to hear "this is the first time I've heard of it":

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250649355

This problem still persists with iOS 13.1.2.

I am using iTunes 12.6.5.3 on Windows 10."

I reluctantly upgraded and Catalini does replace iTunes with music, and it has helped with the artwork issue. Most of my playlists have now got the correct covers again and are not flickering between covers randomly. However there are many lists without covers where they once had them and Apple Music has replaced some. I’ve not had time to go through them all yet as I have a lot of playlists.

However the update has now created a problem with my Apple ID and I’m having to talk to Apple support to try to fix this. So one problem is replaced by yet another!!

I'm also finding that the new synching user interfaces on Music quite annoying as the process seems to open two windows, with one representing your computer and the other your phone. There’s less information about what is syncing and what steps are happening and it seems to take forever! Still for many of us that look at our lists visually the cover art work should mostly be correct but only if you update.

after updating 2 album covers manually on iphone 8+ it fixed those 2 under playlists. added some additional music on itunes and synced and those 2 album covers i fixed are still correct. its a fix but still alot to do a whole catalog of music. holding out for an update before i do that to whole library on iphone

Hello, I use a Windows 10 1903 PC and an iPhone 8 iOS13.2. This may only apply to that config.

This is from a PC iTunes point of view.

I want to be clear, on my iPhone 8 iOS13.2, the cover art shown in the playlist view are all correct.

The playlist icons in the Library view are random cover images from the iTunes data base.

Apple or iTunes "knows" the correct icon in the playlist view and is choosing to display something else in the Library view.

Library - Playlists - the icon is incorrect

Library - Playlists - playlist_name the icon is correct

For the playlists that show correct cover art they are stable and never change; for the rest then even scrolling up and down is changing them. Any window update seems to trip a cover art update that is incorrect.

I have tried making an album with cover art then a playlist of the album with cover art and it never gets the correct cover are into the Library- Playlsit entries. Each file in the playlist has the same cover art data in the mp3 tag; I verified it.

I use fubar200 1.3.15 & Mp3tag v2.49 to check and modify the mp3 tags.

I did try all the suggestions by those before me and thank them for that but even after trying them more than three times each but never got my playlist cover art to work.

Maybe if we report what we see this may get some traction at Apple. Debugging is not easy.

Happy Trails

Hi all. Just got off the phone with Apple support and after logging out of Apple account and logging back in, shutting off devise and rebooting and doing a hard sync to iTunes - support stated that this is a known issue and Apple is working to resolve it.

I love Disco Danny!!!

same problem but I have iPhone 11 and windows computer. Same problem. I called Apple and after hard reboot and logging out of Apple account and rebooting again and logging back in ( which is a royal pain as your wallet and other pro game disconnect as well) Apple told me it was a “known” issue and they are working on the problem. I love that you escalated it and hope we get an answer/ fix soon. I’m not joining Apple Music!!! Ugh!!! Thank you. !!

I delete app music from iPhone and install again. After sync with my Mac is everything perfect 👌

I upgraded to 13 and experienced the same. So typically frustrating. My playlist artwork is all corrupted. I can no longer select my playlist at a glance. I think I will have to delete all music on my phone and resync. PIA as I have over 8,000 songs on my phone.

Hi all, I've got the same problem on my iphone and wife's phone as well. randomly album artwork is being changed everytime. playlist , songs all correct but artworks are really corrupted seriously. we all need to wait for 13.1 patch and i believe it'll be fixed aftrer the patch released. typical new ios bugs everytime happens im used of struggling those bugs it doesnt bother me anymoree :) all i need to do is just wait a few days.. but yes its shame on dev team maybe they should have done more agressively test before they release it

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.