Where did all my Apple Music Playlists go?
All my Apple Music Playlists have disappeared from my iPhone SE 2020 and my old iMac. The playlist titles are there, but there are no songs in the playlists. It appears hours of searching and compiling those playlists has been lost.
I'm not sure what caused them to disappear. I was fiddling with the iTunes app on my iMac to try adding Apple Music songs to a playlist on the iMac, and then lost all the Apple Music playlists I had created on both devices.
To explain, I have a late 2009 iMac with High Sierra 10.13.6, and it won't support any newer macOS. That means I don't have the Apple Music App. I have trouble accessing my Apple Music Playlists on iTunes on the iMac. For one playlist in particular, it only shows about a quarter of the songs on my iMac compared to the complete list on my iPhone. In addition, even when I'm signed into my Apple account in iTunes, it still shows the prices for songs and albums in Store, even though I have an Apple Music account. Sometimes logging out of my Apple account in iTunes and then logging back in solves the problem. It didn't this time.
Next, under Account Information in Store, under Account/Authorization in the top nav, I noticed the
option to Authorize this computer. I selected it, and the prices did not disappear from items in the Store. I think that is when I also lost all of my Apple Playlists, but I didn't check those immediately so I don't know for sure it that's what did it.
I've checked my iPhone to make sure my Apple Music subscription is current.
How do I restore the songs on my Apple Music playlists to my iPhone and my iMac?
Why doesn't iTunes on my iMac recognize my Apple Music account and allow me to access must without paying per song or per album?
iMac, macOS 10.12