Apple Music Censoring

I’m so relieved I’m not the only one to have had this happen to! Thank God, it’s finally fixed! I just Googled the problem and found this thread while I was listening to a song of his, because I needed to get to the bottom of it. I thought it might have been something that Apple decided to do, but if you go into Settings> Apple Music> Dolby Atmos and turn it OFF, it fixes it immediately. Mine was on automatic, and the second I turned it off, the song rang out those sweet, sweet f bombs once again 😊

This is due to Dolby Atmos. If you go into Apple Music settings and disable it, the explicit versions will now play. I had the same problem and this resolved it for me!

Go to your main iPhone settings —> Music —> Dolby Atmos. It’s around 1/3rd down the page, after “Sync Library” but before EQ.

You may have to delete the local downloads for impacted songs, because Apple will not automatically replace your Dolby music files with non-Dolby versions the instant you turn it off. The setting only applies going forward, to songs downloaded or streamed afterwards.

The easiest solution to that is to just delete all local downloads (this doesn’t remove songs from your library). In the same music settings a couple lines below Dolby Atmos, there’s a “Downloaded Music” option. Go there, click Edit, and press the red minus sign at the top to just delete everything.

Dont do this second step unless you have decent wifi or are otherwise comfortable redownloading your library. And definitely don’t do it if you have songs from external sources like CDs. In that case you’d want that just delete individual songs that are affected by the problem.

As far as I know there is no setting that would "bleep out" words in the music. The only setting would prevent you from playing songs with the "explicit" label entirely. I think what might be happening is it just playing the clean versions of his songs. Check to see if they are marked as (clean version) on the song itself.

Perhaps have a friend listen to the same song on their account/device and see if the same thing happens? I wonder if it has nothing to do with you and is just that his songs are just uploaded that way in Apple Music in which case it would happen for everyone. I can't think of any setting that affects songs on a lyrical basis especially since you already checked your other settings.

Turning off Dolby Atmos has not worked for me unfortunately. I'm listening to 'Amputation' on The Jesus and Mary Chain's Damage and Joy, in which the "f**k" in the line "kiss today but f**k tomorrow" has been faded out. I own the CD – it's not supposed to be like this.

Ironically this is the 'Deluxe' edition (no other version is available); I didn't know 'deluxe' was a synonym for 'censored'.

NOT due to Dolby Atmos. I've always had it turned off. It continues to happen, and to music I have purchased directly in the iTunes store. And explicit version IS enabled. Apparently Apple feels it has the right to tell me what words I can and cannot hear.

there isn’t a setting for that in my apple music settings though?

turning atmos off did nothing to resolve this issue for me.

Omg THANK YOU!! I had the exact same issue only with his songs, and this fixed it. I’ve been searching Google for the answer for weeks!

This is happening to me as well

Thanks so much! It worked!

One more thing – this (Deluxe) edition has an 'E' next to it, which signifies 'Explicit'. The word "p**s" is also faded out. Madness.