Music on iOS displaying wrong album artwork with iPhone 12 Pro

I encountered the same problem and figured it out on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I deleted all the music from my iPhone and then sync it with my mac again. All duplicates are gone and every song is now correctly displaying its cover art.

ON YOUR MAC (Open the Music app)

-Select Music on the top left-hand corner

-Select Preference

-Select Advanced and turn off "Automatically Update Artwork"

-Reset Warnings & Reset Music Store Cache

-Select Save and Close.

ON YOUR IPHONE (Go to music under settings)

-Turn off "Cellular Data"

-Enter "Downloaded Music" under Downloads

-Select "Edit" on the top right-hand corner

-Now select "All Songs" and delete them (You are only deleting all your music from your phone)

Now open the Music app on your iPhone and verify that all your music was deleted. Also, you may have to manually delete any playlist you created on your phone as well. Once you are done with that, cycle your phone (Turn it off, turn it back on).

Now just sync your phone to your Mac and it'll place all your music back into your phone like new. You should have no issues and all cover art should be where it needs to be. Took me a few hours to figure this out but my phone music is all organized as it should be now. I've also attached a snapshot of what my phone settings are on the Music app. Hope this helps everyone experiencing this problem. Don't forget to back up your phone after you have done this and get rid of the old backups of your phone.

dodsonmd00, your solution made a major improvement, so THANK YOU. But ... randomly picking through my phone's library after your process, I've already found 2 albums where the wrong artwork is on the album in my phone but the correct artwork is on the album in my Mac's library.

Really frustrated and disappointed with Apple that they allow this to continue. The very first thing I did (we probably all did) with our very first iphone was to synch our music. To have that become less than reliable speaks volumes that Apple is paying attention to other things at the expense of existing, basic infrastructure.

All of these methods are BS. I have had this problem for years, spanning several phones, I have an 11 now.

one, syncing the phone makes no sense when you have a large ITunes collection. I have to manually select tunes for my phone.

two, I noticed that only Apple bought music shows proper art. All of my uploaded CDs have jumbled artwork. I have converted all files in ITunes to Apple lossless which only helps maintain proper artwork on PC iTunes, not iPhone

after all the resetting, only once has the artwork corrected on my phone, only to be jumbled again upon next transfer or OS change.

thirdly I’ve noticed that when I shuffle my songs on my phone it plays 8 Apple bought songs to every 2 cd uploads. 90% of my music is cd upload, so this makes for an extremely repetitive shuffle, so annoying

iTunes program support has been ignored at Apple where they really want you to use the Apple Music streaming service

I am currently having the same issue on my iPhone 12 (latest version of iOS). It was fine the other day and then I synched my iPhone with my iMac and everything went to pieces. ALL the artwork on the phone, in music, is fubar'd. It's just fine on my iMac, though. Little help here?

I followed XxBBVTMxX's good advice from the "helpful" comments... but it didn't fully work. I wiped the music clean from my phone successfully, and it initially deleted all 35GBs. However, it left 3 EMPTY playlists or playlist folders in my Music app on the iPhone 12 (NOT ones I created within the phone... positively came from my MacBook). I didn't like that it did this, but I couldn't find any option anywhere to manually delete these empty playlist folders from my phone (I assumed because they weren't created there, and ultimately I figured this would get cleaned up since my Music settings showed "0 kb" under "Downloaded Music". So I moved on with the process, despite have 3 empty playlist folders left on my phone, that seemingly couldn't be deleted.

Low and behold though, when I plugged in and re-loaded all 35GBs, half the album covers are still totally messed up. In what almost can't be coincidence, it's almost all albums from the 3 playlist folders (even though there were entirely empty after deleting my music) that had never left the phone. So, I really need to learn how to wipe EVERYTHING (playlists included) from the phone, and (hopefully) start over, even though it'll take another 5-ish hours.

What's worse though, is now that I've done this once, my iPhone will no longer let me delete the music again. It shows "0kb" under "Downloaded Music" again, but when I got into the Music app, all of the music FILES are still there (with the incorrect cover art)... just none of them are playable (all greyed out... if you click a track it tells you it can't play).

So,

1) How do I totally reset the Music app on my iPhone (delete ALL music, ALL playlists, start totally clean) again?

2) If I can manage to do this for a second time, is there a way to make 100% sure that there are NO playlists or playlist folders (even from the MacBook) remaining on the iPhone, since it seems clear that's what is causing this issue for me?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Thanks. One KEY item you have here is clicking the selection "Sync only checked songs and videos" - that actually cleared all the playlists. There are a lot of threads where folks cannot clear the actual playlists from the iphone. Apply that selection does the trick.

I tried this. When I synched the iPhone to my MacBook Pro (Big Sur), the phone wiped out all of my playlists on the MacBook. I thought the synch was supposed to transfer music from my MacBook Pro to my iPhone. Over 100 playlists and 50 GB of my programmed music gone!

Thank you. This did the trick.

I had the same problem with my iPhone 12 Pro but your solution worked for me. Album artwork showing the correct cover. Thanks!