Apple Music no longer shows album artwork on playlists

Please Apple!!!! We prefer the old method of creating a playlist that loads the albumcovers! This new "color" is terribly boring!

While we are here, can we please choose a default setting for the field options for playlists!!!

Why must we change settins whenever we log on?

PLEASE!!! hear us and respond!!!

Submitted this feedback.

"A recent update to Apple Music on iOS changed how the artwork for a new Playlist is generated. Previously, a playlist would generate artwork by combining the artwork for the first four tracks in the playlist. Now, Apple Music on iOS uses a selection of abstract gradients for artwork on a new playlist. This is a backwards step. The previous behaviour was much better. At the very least, the old behaviour should be one of the options available to choose from."

This is a terrible idea from Apple. Just another way for them to take functionality away from the user.

Yep. It’s really annoying. At present if I create a playlist in the Mac Apple Music app it still uses the artwork from the first four tracks to generate the playlist artwork. Even if you add the tracks on iPhone or iPad. I suspect a future update on Mac will switch it to the terrible iOS Music app behaviour.

I can think of no good reason to change it to work like this. 😡

Good news - IT IS SOLVED on both iPhone and Mac.

Process explanation:

1. iPhone: Music > Select song(s) > Add to a Playlist > New Playlist > Save the playlist. Done (so don’t even touch the image section)
2. Mac: Music > Select song(s) > Add to Playlist > New Playlist > when the playlist comes up, in the IMAGE section, click left to the most left “empty” image with a red + in it > select it > Save the playlist. The album image(s) appear in your playlist!

Hope this helps - it is not intuitive but works (I tried several scenarios and it works every time).

Please upvote my reply so others know it is solved, too.

I now have to do work to get something that used to just happen. Technology is supposed to make life easier. It is the very small things that can push the consumer to other companies. I hope that I will simply have the option to have my playlists like I used to with the album art automatically added.

I agree with everyone who says this change was a bad idea. I used the artwork to differentiate between playlists quickly, and I appreciated the amalgamation of album covers Apple Music generated when a playlist had songs from several albums.

Apple— please listen. We liked the old way better.

I am also having that issue. The only thing we can really do is use the Apple product feedback form in the hope that Apple fixes whatever is wrong, or makes it the way it used to be.

This new update is the worst. I miss the album artwork option and hope they bring it back.

We can't be the only ones that have an issue with this, can we? Other than sending product feedback to Apple, how do we get them to give us the choice to put something back the way it was, which was wonderful. I am choosing my words very carefully is to not have my comment be deleted, but I simply don't know what to do. As it is, now I have to scour the Internet for album art and create my own artwork based on that. Who thought this was a good idea?

Very well said. I have found this to be a troubling trend with Apple over the last few years. "improvements" That take freedom of choice from the user.

Yes, but leaving the previous behaviour to generate playlist artwork from the songs automatically would have been a better option. Even if it wasn’t the default.

please reimplement the album art on playlists. this update sucks!!! 🍅🍅🍅

The update to macOS 14.2 has now changed the behaviour in the Music app on Mac to be the same as iOS. Or, to put it another way, it's broken on Mac now as well.