Rating songs with Siri stopped working (iOS 15.1.1 Music app, not service)

Just adding my reply so that this topic has more comments. I'm using an iPhone 6s and IOS 14.8.1.

This behavior seems to effect any model iPhone and IOS release and is most definitely caused by Apple's backend changes.

PLEASE FIX THIS APPLE. I really hate when Apple makes a changes like this that hurt its users (which they do occasionally like when they decided that finder and spotlight would return metadata instead of filename when searching music)

Just for so we all know how consistent Apple Music is, the empty Playlists DON'T disappear on my phone. Obviously I can't say what I might have done differently to you but I'm not deleting them to test, might never get them back...

Having said that, the changes the shortcuts make are still no syncing back to Apple Music.

I have a theory as to why this issue exists. Like others on this thread, I've utilized the "rating playlist" workaround. It's mostly worked, with one exception: songs that I've uploaded to my library can no longer be added to playlists. I believe this issue and the song rating issue are both tied to the new Apple Music Voice plan.

For half the price of the regular Apple Music plan, the Voice plan provides Siri-only access to Apple Music. Aside from not having a GUI, it also doesn't have library or playlist capabilities. My guess is that there is an issue identifying the plan subscription, so all users are being treated as Voice plan subscribers.

Apple QA either didn't account for the standard Apple Music plan user persona and missed this defect or, they did, identified it, but management determined that they didn't have enough time to fix it prior to the Voice Plan launch. Regardless, either scenario reflects poorly on them. Hopefully this gets fixed in an update sooner than later

I could not figure out how to create the shortcuts correctly. (Shortcuts and I are not friends.) I would be very grateful if you could provide the actual steps for how to create one of the shortcuts; I got very confused).

But the following process did seem to work. First I created five different playlists titled "rating five," "rating four," and so forth. (Thanks for this suggestion.) Then I simply used the following syntax with Siri while listening to music.

“Hey Siri, Add Current Song to Playlist Rating Five” (or whatever rating I desire)

Then at the end of the day, I went into each of those playlists and actually rate the songs in those playlists.

I’m having the same problem. I rate new songs in the car. I have a huge music library and ratings is the best way for me to organize and play it all. My unrated new smart playlist is getting ridiculously hefty while I wait for a fix on this. I don’t have the time or patience to do this manually. It’s very aggravating that this is happening.

I don't think this was a mistake, bug, or accident. With this backend change having occurred months ago without update or resolution, I think it's safe to assume that Apple is just removing the functionality from Siri to be able to rate your songs.

It really really stinks.

It stinks that they make this change and hide that they made the change and prefer to let users contact support.

It stinks that they are impacting visually impaired users disproportionately when they degrade Siri functionality.

It stinks that with so much of your phone's function being "software as a service" that is subject to change without notice and without transparency.

There's a lot I love about Apple, but this stuff burns me up. I hope they realize that every time this problem is mentioned, there are multitudes of users who are quietly annoyed.

But hey, I hope they prove me wrong and fix the Siri backend to enable song rating again.

I was then ecstatic when Apple added rating songs to Siri.. Suddenly my phone was ACTUALLY safe to use in the car! Perhaps I could FINALLY let go of my clickwheel iPod!! (where you can rate practically without looking quick and easy..)

I was seriously weirded out/angry that the recipricol command, "how many stars?" seemed to simply not be part of the new functionality..

Now I'm angrier than ever that something I hugely valued has been broken (by this threads time stamps) for months now..

Sure seems to give creedence to some of the theories presented..

We love music. We've had access to iTunes for decades. Apple CANNOT jeopardize the cumulative work in rating song libraries around the world, but I guess it's okay to discourage it.. Like when "love" tried to push ratings out of the way.. Grrr..

+1 for A) fixing this, and B) adding "Hey Siri! How many stars does this song have?" (and permutations.. How hard can it be?)

Great points mtrcycllvr

This also is making things harder on vision impaired users, just as a mention.

I've been continuing to ask siri to "Rate this song 3 Stars" just so that the Siri logs on Apples servers still register that users are trying to use this function.

I wish *HINT HINT* that tech support would, at least, release an official response to this.

Just to add to the problem, the shortcut idea from earlier in this thread would work but for a couple of problems (Apple related, not the person who came up with the idea). First, it only works occasionally if you use Siri on your watch and secondly the additions to the "Rating" playlists seem toe be stuck on my phone. They don't sync to my iPad or Mac, not even to music.apple.com.

This is getting seriously frustrating.

The shortcut solution was working for me, but stopped about 3 weeks ago. Basically, when I invoke one of the rating shortcuts, the currently playing song gets added to the playlist on my iPhone. When I check that playlist on my MacBook, the song's not there. Interestingly, if I manually add a song to that playlist from my phone, it magically appears on the playlist on my MacBook. So the issue is once again linked to Siri. I tried logging out from iCloud and back in to no avail. I finally discovered a workaround. If I rename the playlist on my iPhone, it forces the songs to update in the playlist on my MacBook. (I still have to manually update the ratings and delete the songs from the playlist after that.) So yet another kludgy step is added to get song ratings to work. Meanwhile, there have been like 4 iOS updates since this was first reported and no fix. WTF!!!

Well the shortcut solution works very well so thanks for that idea.. I am glad I read through this discussion. I thought My phone was just behaving badly on its own. The shortcut is a great solution, however it does not change the fact that Apple has broken a long-existing functionality and forced us to program shortcuts to re-activate it. Also, of course there is the additional work of reviewing the lists and starring and cleaning out the songs that accumulate in them, but yes,, its a HUGE help, so thanks again! Come on Apple. Don't break stuff that's been working since before most people even had a smart phone.

Just adding that I'm more considering this break to have been intentional. I notice that while Rating has stopped working via Siri, the "like this song" command still works. Dear Apple, this is insufficient.

Same troubles.

Suggested troubleshooting methods did not help (

Same problem here. Worked perfectly last time I was in the car, doesn’t work today.