Songs on Playlist Being Skipped

Hi hgladner,

Since this happens when the connection is weak or unavailable, make sure that the songs are downloaded. If you downloaded them previously and it appears that they need to be downloaded again, check to see which options are selected from Settings > Music > Optimize Storage. Details below are from Add music to iPhone and listen offline - Apple Support and may help further.

"Manage storage space

• Free up music storage: If iPhone is low on storage space, you can automatically remove downloaded music that you haven’t played in a while. Go to Settings  > Music > Optimize Storage.
• Remove music and videos stored on iPhone: Touch and hold a song, album, playlist, music video, TV show, or movie that you’ve downloaded. Tap Remove, then tap Remove Downloads.
• The item is removed from iPhone, but not from iCloud Music Library.
• Remove all songs or certain artists from iPhone: Go to Settings > Music > Downloaded Music, tap Edit, then tap  next to All Songs or the artists whose music you want to delete."

Since you have plenty storage space, this may not be the cause but changing those settings may isolate where this occurs. Your other devices should not impact this behavior on your iPhone but you can certainly check those devices and make any needed changes there as well.

All the best.

Hi hgladner,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We want to help with your Apple Music issue, but we need a little more clarification:

When you say skipping, does it bring up the title of the song briefly and then skip to the next track, or just not even try to play the song entirely?

Are you shuffling the playlist?

Does this happen with any other playlists?

Do you ever see any errors or alerts when this occurs?

The answers to these questions will help us isolate the issue and work towards a resolution.

Regards.