macOS Music - "Recently Added" no longer showing all entries

This is actually pretty critical for me as "Recently Added" has been my main way of listening to music the last 5(?) years. Working at a music venue i add a lot of albums from different bands every week. For the last couple of years "Recently Added" has been the easiest and best feature on any platform in helping me checking out bands/ artists and keeping control on my music consumption.

If this won't come back, i might actually be looking at switching to Tidal

Yep such a terrible idea. Apple should at the very least offer the option of letting you choose if you want to limit your scrolling instead of forcing this change on us or implementing a sort by Date Added on the albums section like they do with songs. One way I have found a workaround is by creating a smart playlist and viewing it with the album cover showing but unfortunately Apple does not offer a Date Added sort option. Fingers crossed they restore this to how it was because this is seriously such an unnecessary and disruptive change.

This seems deliberate as is completely unacceptable. Why is Apple crippling its own software? Do they want to force us into their streaming service? If they push us too much with such anti-consumer behaviour, they'll end up pushing us into the competition's arms instead. Sheesh! I'm sending feedback through their website, but I'll feign ignorance and, treating this as a bug (even though we all know it isn't), give them a call as well.

@realdannys - Unless you're on a beta version, there's been no update to Sonoma or Apple Music since this problem has presented itself.

Also, of course Apple won't fix it if nobody fills out the product feedback form.

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Still borked in final public release of macOS 14.1. Sent feedback several days ago but so let's see how it is in future updates. I don't like how they handled the situation with recently added tab, as it's actings as an album tab with different sorting...

I absolutely agree with this! ☹️☝️ I was extremely frustrated when I discovered this the first time I "upgraded" to Sonoma. I spoke to Apple Support, however there wasn't much help there... I had to revert back to Ventura because of battery issues amongst other problems and by doing that it brought back the Recently Added section. Then when the first update to the Sonoma OS came I once again tried the upgrade. Most of the other issues were gone including the battery problem I had, however the album artwork in the 'Unlimited Recently Added' format was gone again and now only displays a few rows... really disappointing as I find it hard to easily locate music and having it in that format made me easily recognise where I was in a span of time so to speak and therefore where to locate specific songs easily. I really really hope they fix this.... It was a great way of going back through time and memories of my life visually which I loved.

this new limitation is a nightmare. already hated it on the iphone.

and one of the reasons I kept my mac was the unlimited recently added view which I loved.

is there any alternative music software? I really considering switching because it doesn't make sense to continue using apple music anymore.

This is a disastrous change. I almost exclusively work in ‘Recently Added’.

It’s true that in the website version, this restriction to 60 albums is not present, but over there the albums that you bought on, let’s say, Bandcamp, don’t show up.

Atrocious idea of Apple Music. I hate it.

Apple. This feature alone stops me from moving over to Spotify. Please fix this asap. There are many people who would feel similarly...

I miss having one, big, reverse chronological list of my music. My Apple Music feels very desolate now.

Single handedly the worst change Apple has ever made.

I can't recommend Apple Music to anyone until this is reverted or the functionally restore in another way. Ridiculously idiotic change.

From what I can tell the first update to macOS isn’t changing this.

I think we might struggle to get Apple to revert this.

Maybe worth as many people as possible calling their support line since this costs Apple money and is harder to ignore than feedback forms?

dsmith1010 wrote:

Please restore this feature!

Tell Apple:

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Just updated to Sonoma 14.1.2 and there isn't the "sort by Date Added" option in the Album library. The recently added library still displays only 60 albums. So nothing's changed. :(