How to change album cover on Apple Music

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.

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!

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 think you nailed it!

I did delete "Music" files on iPhone, but this may have been an unnecessary step. One thing to note, I suspect the initial migration from my iPhone 7 to 12 Pro Max did something that caused it to be weird.

I spent a month organizing my library 10 years ago when I was still syncing on a 160 gig iPod. First time I had any issues.

I posted a step-by-step sequence I found a week or two ago. Hardly any work at all, but does take time to reload the music.

Anyway, to follow up — my phone still is good as far as cover images. And I’ve added a lot of new music since and it remains happily connected to the right artwork.

No need to do some kind of work the length of which is driven by how many playlists you have. It turned out to be a lot easier than I expected.

Thanks so much! This simple fix worked for me after months of frustration since getting my iPhone 12.

I would just add that if you have a large library, be patient, as it takes awhile for all the songs to re-synch.

Have tried deleting all songs off iPhone 12 Pro, re-starting iPhone and re-syncing with iMac and problem doesn't go away. Cured some of the covers being correct against the song but not the album or some playlists. Running Big Sur on iMac & iPhone 12 Pro, both up to date.

Come on Apple - please fix this, it's so annoying !!!

It’s amazing to me that Apple has not fixed this. It has been a problem for at least two years and all of the fixes seem to fail after a few months based on what I’ve read.

I will try the last couple of suggestions since I’d just given up after the last ones failed.

This worked quite well (blood pressure has been restored back to normal)! I did find that I had to do a third sync operation to get one album cover corrected, but in general, this process worked for me.

I agree that someone in the Apple test group fell on their face badly to have let this issue slip out for any length of time.

It depends on how your playlists are organized. For example, if you use folders and sub folders, you can activate every play list in that folder. But if you only have a bunch of playlists with no organization, it might take about 36 minutes.

I’ve read quite a few comments on this issue in this thread as well as some others. There seems to be some consensus around the problem being tied to a check box for syncing the entire music library being checked as opposed to manually selecting what music to sync. So, if I understand this correctly my album art displays perfectly on the base model iPad I’m using, because I have insufficient storage to sync all my music. However, on my iPhone 11 Pro that I felt was worth spending extra on for the improved cameras and paid too much extra just to get the increased storage so that I could sync my entire library, the software isn’t capable of allowing me to use the check box for syncing all my music without mixing up the album art? The apparent solution to this appears to be that Apple feels it’s incumbent on their customers to resolve this problem by following unclear instructions from other users having the same problem. If Apple doesn’t feel that it’s important to support this functionality anymore they should allow 3rd party developers to offer better software for supporting music organization and playback.

I noticed the other day that one or two of the albums on my iPhone were showing the wrong cover art. I've also spent a bit of time recently converting LPs to digital files and adding them to the music library on my computer, and wanted at least one of those on my phone too. (I use an iPhone 12 Pro and a MacBook Air, both fully up-to-date.)

It seemed like a great opportunity to review and refresh the music selection on my phone. (I have always added music manually, not during the synchronisation process.) But each step I took seemed to make matters worse. Eventually I removed all the music from my phone and put it back manually, as someone suggested in this conversation, but that didn't work. Next I tried to use the "sync selected albums" function. Now I'm in the position where all the music I want on my phone is there, but it will be nigh-on impossible to find the album I'm looking for because they almost all show the sleeve of "Woodface" by Crowded House as their cover.

Is there a definitive explanation of this, and a way to put it right?

Apparently apple doesn’t care about the fact that there’s 6 pages worth of problems with this. I totally feel you, I upgraded from an iPhone XR to an iPhone 12 Pro Max and I’m still having problems with my artwork.