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Siri won’t play non-Apple playlists

Hi,

As of today, if I ask Siri to play one of my playlists on my iPhone it doesn’t work because she tries to use Apple Music. I don’t have an Apple Music subscription, but I regularly ask Siri to play my own music playlists.

For example, I have a playlist called ‘All Time!’. If I say “Hey Siri, play all time playlist”, today she is responding with... “Sorry, I didn’t find ‘All Time!’ on Apple Music.”

The most ironic part is that she actually recognises the playlist but still won’t play it! What does work is if I just ask her to play a particular song or artist or album, so it’s only the playlists that are the problem.

Could someone please help me with how to fix this? Why is this happening? I tried going to Settings > Music and turning off ‘Show Apple Music” but it didn’t help.

Thank you :)

Posted on Mar 23, 2021 4:27 PM

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chjones

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Posted on Mar 30, 2021 7:52 AM

Not much to add except that I do have an Apple Music account and have had the same experience lately. Similarly related, within the last month or so Siri would play an Apple Music playlist (not made by me) with the same name rather than the library playlist it had played without issue for a long time. I just tried changing the name of the library playlist, which is when I first got the “I didn’t find the playlist *** in Apple Music.”

I’ve tried adding “... from my library” to such requests as some older articles have recommended with no improvement. As expected, it also doesn’t seem to matter whether I ask to “shuffle” or “play” the playlist, or if I ask Siri to “play a playlist” then wait for it to ask “Which playlist would you like?” before naming it.

Happy to try other things if anyone has ideas.

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