How to change album cover on Apple Music

i hate this. sucks and been happening now for a long time and apple will not fix the issue.

i delete the song form my phone. power the phone off. hook my phone to the Itunes hardline in. sync the phone and now I get new different album art. I done this type of steps in many way and still same issue over and over never the same art work and never the right art work.

IF apple ever reads these post PLEASE for the love of DOG fix this issue for us OCD people.

I had the same problem with my SE - followed your instructions and it worked. I had a bit of a heart stop at one point when all the music was gone from my iPhone, but it did magically reappear. I hope it doesn't happen on future syncs - but at least now I will be able to remember that there is a fix --- not that I'll remember the fix -- but hopefully be able to come back here and say, "oh yeah - I did this before."

Thank you so much! It was odd looking at "Mozart Requiem" artwork and hearing Sufjan Stevens.

John

did not work.

there is no apply thinking you meant sync so did that

the 2 step you have down is strange. I think you want me to go into my phone and Go to Settings >> General >> iPhone Storage >> BUT when i go to photos just gives me the Documents & Data. ..............So i click on music and deleted that from my phone and went to the next step. selected all the music and added it back to the phone by syncing it.

and DID not work made things worst. Now none of my music has the right art.

Perhaps a silly question, but since I'm having the same issue with the album art being mixed up, I'm going to go ahead and ask anyway. I don't check albums/playlists/songs in iTunes, but add songs from my laptop's hard drive. I drag them them into my iTunes music folder and then add them to my playlist. (Probably very old school and cumbersome, I know.) The above doesn't seem to fix the issue for me. It actually fixed some of the album art, but not all of them. Could that be because of the way I add music? Thanks in advance!

ETA: I should probably note that I manually edited every song's info and album art via another program before adding them to iTunes.

Hi...so i've scrolled through all 7 pages of this thread and have seen the reply that seems to be working for lots of folks to remedy the rogue incorrect artwork problem transferring from MacBook(Pro) to iPhone. i got a new iPhone SE with 256GB memory in part so i could fit at least most of my music on phone (i don't use Apple Music or any streaming services, nor iCloud for storage...it's all on computer and auxiliary drive for back up). When i loaded most of music on to the phone, i did it by dragging and dropping each artist/album/playlist that i wanted manually (i've never used the box to automatically sync music because i've never ha a device that can hold it all). That initial upload onto the new phone transferred all the music and artwork correctly. Upon switching to Catalina (yes, not even Big Sur yet) on my Mac, the switch included moving everything from iTunes to Music. That's when the album artwork problems began. Every new album that i have attempted to drag and drop onto my phone since has come up with the wrong art work (yes, 'Woodface' by Crowded House seems to be a popular album cover in this new system, along with random covers from R.E.M. and Joe Jackson for me). Music purchased in iTunes store works (of course). i called Apple Support, spent a long time on the phone, got a case number and everything, and haven't heard a thing in months. Sounds like i'm not alone in this. My fear is deleting all 248GB of my music that took hours to load onto my phone in order to fix incorrect artwork for a handful of albums and then having it NOT work. Any advice out there for an old school old soul who just would like to manage his own music in a simple, old fashioned way? Thanks so much.

Hi Simon...thanks for the reply. i may have slightly exaggerated the music total...just looked and it's 208.5GB for music, 8.5GB for photos/videos (so not a whole lot), and then other apps, etc.

i wish i hadn't 'upgraded' to Catalina...but i was getting more and more messages about some of my apps not being able to be updated further until l upgrade to it. So i gave in...and it's mucked up some of the album artwork (among some other inconveniences). Funny how i became a Mac user over 20 years ago in part because they gave you options to maintain older formats and platforms and even provided updates for them while the 'bad guys' (Windows) didn't and made you buy new upgrades, etc. Now it appears Apple is more the one who tries to shoehorn consumers into accessing information only in certain ways (i.e. making it more difficult to manually manage one's music, especially for those of us who still purchase some physical CD's and such). Not enough of a knowledgeable computer user to know what other kinks are in the platform.

If you wouldn't mind kindly reminding where your instructions are located on this huge thread, that would be most helpful. I may give it a go in spurts...erase the music, then add it back gradually since i do it all by dragging and dropping.

Thanks again for the help and support!

I'm confused. HERE:

1. On the iPhone went to settings >> iPhone storage and deleted all the songs and playlists.

Did you mean to say that you went settings >> iCLOUD storage? I cannot find anything under SETTINGS>MY ACCOUNT> that says "iPhone storage". And, in iCloud settings, there is no option to "deleted all the songs and playlists."

So, I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

SimonBeer,

Thanks for checking back. Yes. It appears as though the process worked. My problem was with audio talks that I labeled "audiobooks" to keep them out of my music files, e.g., there'd be the art of an opera singer on a recording of a talk unrelated to opera.

Anyway, the process worked, except that the files that I manually removed from the device (iphone XR) are not synching even though they still reside on my computer. I had removed them to see if doing so and then resynching would solve the issue as was suggested on this --or a similar-- thread. It did not. I cannot seem to get those files back onto my iPhone.

Thanks so much.

Dianne

I already did those steps. That's how I got the album are to synch with the correct talks. But, as I said, the talks I removed manually from my iPhone do not return even through the process of removing all and re-adding all. Never mind; I can live without them. Just wasted the afternoon with an Apple calendar program which they daytime engineers will fit in four days (!).

Wow. Why has the Apple brand become. The core precepts of premium brand, customer satisfaction and easy UI are gone.

Waste of an afternoon and the bread I was making got ruined from my inattention.

I have about 200 gb of music on my phone. The thought of deleting it all to compensate for something that Apple really should take the time to figure out is enough to make me nauseous. There's got to be a way to get iTunes to do its job without deleting everything. :-(

“There's got to be a way to get iTunes to do its job without deleting everything. :-(“

This operation takes roughly 5 minutes on my iPhone, at ~100+ g of music.

I even did it a couple of times in a row to confirm all my steps.

Yes, shouldn’t be happening, agreed. This is a hack, agreed. But I’d rather just do it and move on to eating pie. ;)

I tried the fixes mentioned here and STILL I have album covers that are mixed up. And it's MUCH worse now. I would say the majority of songs show the wrong album covers. I used the method of stop syncing with iTunes (Music is the name now), sync, deleting all music from iPhone, and then start syncing music again from iTunes. What a pain. This is 2021. How many years has Apple had to work on iTunes syncing with iPhone and still has problems like this? I'll note that I have made metadata changes outside of iTunes including album covers but you'd think iTunes would simply pick up those changes fine. And I NEVER let iTunes organize my music and I'm certainly NOT going to let iTunes "Automatically update artwork" after I've done a huge amount of that myself. This is ridiculous. And I just started using apple CarPlay for the first time, and album covers show up wrong there too. I haven't found anything wrong yet in iTunes on Mac. Why the heck is it wrong on the iPhone. My setting is 'sync all music'.

This same folder that's on my Mac has been copied to other storage for use on Android devices and at least two different android music players on those devices show the album art cover correctly.

Ugh, what a nightmare. Huge library here, ripped from CDs, downloaded from the iTunes store and other outlets over many, many years. "Upgraded" my phone from 10 to 12 pro, and now this. Initial transfer from old phone to new was fine, but once I started syncing with my MacBook the artwork issue arose. I'm just focusing on one album now -- went in and deleted the artwork in iTunes, added new artwork, resynced -- and artwork is still wrong on the phone, and doesn't match what is in the computer. Again, I have an enormous library, and no time to f--- around with this. The handwriting is on the wall -- I need to get out of the Apple universe.

Same problem except I am also missing a lot of music eg all music by artists starting with W.

Several attempts to follow steps above but I cannot find Settings > iPhone Storage

iPhone 12 mini iOS 14.7.1

I have this problem on iOS 15.0.2.

Have tried the fixes described on here, deleting everything, syncing, then re-adding and re-syncing, but most albums and playlists still have the wrong cover (but different wrong covers than before). It seems quite random.

This is on an iPhone 13 Pro, very frustrated that such an expensive phone has such a buggy music app.