Remove songs from playlist but not library

My answer is rather simple.

I switched to Spotify. True story.

If you have the latest software, you can now remove the song from your playlist.

Don't you just love it when apple fixes the problems that they caused 🙂

Such a garbage problem. Have no idea how to get these songs back now or which ones I even deleted. Do these people even use their own app? Seriously, things like "play last" instead of an add to queue, now this crap? What a joke, I might just to switch back to spotify at this point

Yes, this happened to my wifes extensive playlist. Chatted with a apple tech, they seem to have no idea that this issue is even a problem.

She was do frustrated she showed me on my phone. One of my playlist had the same song seven times. Deleted one instance of the seven in play list, all seven instances disappeared as well as from my library.

Notice to apple: if you think you are going to get me to commit to Apple play by screwing up our 15 years of purchased music with you.

Then you are wrong. The music play from Big A and the Spot are now on my preffered go to.

FIX this! We did not screw up playlists , you did. We do not need to go back through

for hours trying to repair your mistake.

if you move my music, I move my money!

I had the same thought. Apple is deleting the music I purchased and then telling me I am not entitled to a refund to force me to subscribe to Apple Music. No way!

Thank you, Mark, for confirming my suspicions

Unfortunately I ended up deleting about a dozen of my songs this way, and no way to get them back as they were not downloaded/purchased via iTunes.

This is where I draw the line with Apple. No way this wasn’t intentional. Time to switch! When you care that little about your customers, you don’t deserve them anymore.

I spent at minimum five hours on the phone with four different media services specialists. The last person I spoke to had the audacity to tell me that the songs are just lost and I wasn’t getting my money back. I thought when you purchased goods, it’s yours.

There is no way to recover the songs that were deleted from the playlist bug, unless you have your phone backed up on a computer and you restore it from there (who does that since cloud computing!?!). Really Apple??

Perhaps Apple should come out with a flip phone, with a rotary dial next. Let’s just get rid of all the technology advances and go back 20 or 30 years while we’re at it.

I never had this problem with my CD’s. Oh! And my 8 track!

It’s getting harder and harder to love Apple the way I used to. This is such an idiotic change, functionality was REMOVED. Just like how they massacred the Podcast app. Someone PLEASE fix this feature.

This issue is causing havoc - I've lost so many songs and there are some albums with songs missing and I don't realize they are missing until I need to use them for my job. Why would they even make that an option ? Just another way to make everyone frustrated. I'm avoiding the updates on my other devices because of this issue. Apple could you change it back ! you've destroyed my music!

This is unbelievable!! a simple edit of a play list should be so hard???? delete a song form the play list not from the whole **** library and have to re-add it??? You have to be kidding me. OR I should recreate a 60 song play list simply because I want to make a SMALL change??? I assume it is possible by clicking this then that then a drop down then high lite then swipe then then then then and you're done. Come on a play list is an organic thing. Add songs move them around, remove them and add new ones!! Who designs your apps, who decides what features need to be easy to access?? Itunes was easy to edit play list, apple music not so much!!

It’s a new promotion from Apple. Ruin everyone’s playlists permanently. And even better, if you’re as unlucky as I was you can also permanently delete songs from your library with no way to recover them.

As a BIG thank you to Apple, I signed up with Spotify. This just shows how little they care about their customers. No official response from Apple as of yet.

Absolute nightmare. I want to use this app but updates like this are so horrifyingly inept. Just realized I deleted a lot of cherished songs thinking that I could casually make a playlist for my little brother. Guess not!

Thought I was doing something stupid, but no, lots of other people are having the same problem.

I created a big playlist - on my iPhone, realised it was too big removed a bunch of songs, probably about 50.

Later realised these had been deleted from the iPhone.

When viewing the music on my device through iTunes on my PC, the songs still show as being present, but when you click on one, it can't be played, because it is no longer on the iPhone, and a little exclamation mark in a circle comes up alongside the song. I then have to delete the song from the iPhone (even though it already isn't there), then copy it back from the PC to the iPhone.

My songs are not purchases, I am old school, I buy CDs, then add them to iTunes and copy them to the iPhone. It is taking ages to go back through my playlist - by memory - to work out what I added and then removed.

Thanks Apple for your total balls-up. Please change this functionality back.

If anyone knows a way to identify the missing songs, it would really help.

Yes! Gristy1984! SO very true!!! Apple needs to bring back the ability to remove songs easily from a specific playlist and NOT delete them from your library!!! I have some purchased music but since I subscribed to Apple Music I no longer purchase songs but now just add them to playlists. As long as I have my Apple Music subscription I’ll have access to my songs/music. But I digress. Apple, just like so many other companies/corporations, just feels the need to keep “tinkering” w their software and unfortunately for us, their customers, they end up not improving these processes at all and, instead, they make it SOooo much harder to do just the simplest thing! Apple is one of the WORST for making things way more complicated than they need to be!!! It all makes me question what is their underlying purpose in all this? Will it make them more money? Or are they just trying to give their employees something to do and keep them employed?!!! Like by trying to come up w all these half-wit, hair-brained, idiotic new schemes and ideas. As for us customers we have ENOUGH complications in our lives and we would very much appreciate Apple not changing things up for the worse under the pretense of improving something!!!