How to change album cover on Apple Music

My problem started when I set up new iPhone 12 Mini. All the albums were a jumble and many under the same albumcover. I followed the routine mentioned by jtanerga in message above. I had to delete all music in settings > music > downloaded music > edit > delete all. After reboot and resync, choose albums and resync again. I followed this routine 3 times before all was right again. Thanks, jtannerga! I think it was the deletion in Music and reboots which did the trick.

It’s already in November of 2020! I have updated my phone and everything. The artwork is still not right. This is the most annoying thing ever. I have plugged into iTunes and all that nonsense, still not working correctly. Over a year later and still, no fix to this issue. Ridiculous.

Yes! And now my phone is lagging, pages won’t load, it gets frozen, nothing but issues. And this artwork thing has been going on forever now. I’m so over it! I’ve spent so much money in Apple products and I won’t be spending anymore. I’m done.

Just when I thought I had it all sorted, I discovered that in some albums, I now had 2 copies of each song. So back to Settings> Music > Downloaded Music > Edit and there I could delete the extra songs. It took some doing, but now I think it is mostly correct.

Have had this issue since I upgraded to iPhone 12 Pro, from iPhone 10, along with the duplicated music issue (which I resolved by deleting all of the music on my phone in the storage section, then re-synching).

However, have found that viewing the album artwork in the 'On My Device' section of the iPhone page in iTunes shows the artwork ( for those tracks showing incorrect artwork on my phone ) as being blank, even though the artwork exists in the larger iTunes library.

If I then add the artwork to the tracks where it's missing, on the 'On My Device' screen, it then synch's the correct artwork to my phone.

No idea why these different places would be different though, considering the files were synch'ed from the same library.

Any one from Apple like to assist?

I just got an iPhone 12 Pro yesterday and did the side by side set up with my old iPhone 7 which had several thousand songs. It transferred perfectly but I noticed that a couple of albums were showing as "Various Artists" (on both phones) and I wanted them to be under a single artist so I went into iTunes on my computer and changed the "Performing Artist" field then synced my music and everything doubled up. I deleted ALL the songs off of my iPhone then re-synced and now a lot of the album covers are swapped. I didn't know I had 9 Abbey Roads! This is frustrating and I don't want to re-setup my phone but I may do that because I really want the correct album covers and I don't know when they will fix this issue.

You've probably fixed it by now but I had a similar situation: I got an iPhone 12 Pro yesterday and did the setup side by side with my iPhone 7 and it was perfect – all my music transferred perfectly. Today I synced the phone up to iTunes to

update a couple of the artists that were listed as “Various Artists” that I wanted as a single artist. The sync process duplicated all of my music so I had two of every song. To fix this issue I deleted ALL the songs from the phone and synced the phone’s “Music” with iTunes and it brought all the music back in but a lot of the albums had the wrong cover.

I researched this online and found this site. A few people here have mentioned manually deleting the albums with the wrong covers then re-syncing. I had a lot of them but I took the time to delete them all one-by-one from the phone then I re-synced with iTunes and everything is fine now. Thanks to those who recommended this fix.

This has been an absolute nightmare for me. I bought an iPhone 12, followed the recommended peer-to-peer transfer, and found out that the vast majority of my PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED music was marked as unplayable due to digital rights issues. I tried resyncing with my Macbook Pro via a lightning/USB connection, and found two copies of everything (86Gb x 2) on my phone. After deleting everything from the phone and repeating the lightning/USB sync, I finally have playable music (I think).

Now I find that the cover art is all mixed up on the phone, but not on the iPad or Macbook Pro. Top that off with the fact that SAFARI NO LONGER SYNCS TABS ACROSS DEVICES.

Fix it fast, or NEVER AGAIN APPLE!

I don't know if this will help, but this is what I noticed:

The altered artwork issue appears to only present on the PLAYLISTS. If you look at ALBUMS and look at SONGS, they still have the artwork that had been previously assigned to them.

Next experiment: on my iphone, I created a NEW playlist and populated it from songs already on the iphone (in my case, the SONG artwork is fine -- the jumble is only on the PLAYLIST artwork).

The artwork persisted and looked normal.

I performed a sync or two and the artwork of the playlist I had phone-created remained perfectly normal.

Then I tried syncing back in a couple playlists from iTunes and those playlist images were all cocked up. Arg.

Thanks for this post. This was pretty helpful. It appears that when you're in iTunes, if you click on to your device and then MUSIC and you try to sync your "Entire music library", you'll bound to experience the mixed up art work situation.

In order to combat that, I went into my device, then MUSIC, and while I had "Sync Music" checked off, instead of "Entire music library" being checked, I selected "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" and then started selecting a few Artists at a time to see if I was experiencing issues. Surprisingly, I wasn't. So I started selecting a few more artists at a time while clicking the sync button. While a little inconvenient, it seemed to do the trick.

Hope this helps!

Just got an iPhone 12 mini and transferred all my music from my iPhone 7. It went well and all album covers are correct. I have lots of music and manually drag music from my computer to my phone if it isn't music I purchase through iTunes. I added some new music today ripping CDs and added the correct artwork to the computer. All looks good on the computer. I moved that new music to my new iPhone and the covers were swapped out with random covers from my library. When I look at the iPhone on the computer through iTunes, the covers show correctly on the computer, but they are not correct on the physical phone. I deleted the new music I added because it's so annoying to have the wrong album cover. Sounds like this is a common problem.

I am having the same issue. I updated to Version 10.15.7 on my iMac and updated the most recent IOS on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. After the last phone update I started experiencing issues with album art in the Music App. I have too many songs to sync to my iPhone so I transfer everything manually. I just started seeing that my songs were showing the wrong artwork. Oddly enough the incorrect album artwork were groups that started with a B. Such as Beastie Boys, Black Crowes, Blood Sweat and Tears, etc. very odd and I haven't found a solution.

Yup just noticed on my new iPhone 12 Pro Max (upgraded from iPhone 7 plus). Opened up music on phone for first time sense syncing with iTunes on pc. All the artwork is screwed. (Plays just fine).. So now I have to take time trying fix it as I spent a god-aweful amount of time getting my library just so several years ago..

I'll update this post if anything works

I figured out the simple fix. Couple iPhone to your iTunes account. Go to the MUSIC tab and unclick the "SYNCH Music onto iPhone" button in the upper left. Then, click SYNCH on lower right. Once done, start the process over except CLICK the "SYNCH Music onto iPhone" button in the upper left and then click SYNCH on lower right. Whalla.....all the album art is immediately corrected!!