Apple Music no longer shows album artwork on playlists

I feel exactly the same way about this, it’s very frustrating. I’ve submitted feedback about this to Apple and have included a link to this forum; you’d like to think that they then can’t possibly fail to acknowledge this forum when a customer clearly points it out!

…well, unless the Apple Music team exercise ignorance in dealing with feedback!

Yea I have been using the old behavior literally since iTunes was released, and I hate this new behavior. I don't want to have to download the album artwork again to make the playlist have the album Artwork.

I too submitted feedback to Apple, though I don't expect them to listen unless this gets plastered all over the internet.

I'm glad I came across this thread, because I initally thought there was something wrong with just my apple music app.

It seems that Apple have decided to not support the automatic playlist cover creation. Instead now, for my meditation playlist, I have an awful brown playlist picture, instead of the usual album covers. My older playlists still have their original album covers. This new colour thing only applies to new playlists, and I dont like it! It's all either marbly brown, or brown smoke style or black with brown dots. It's ugly! Yuck! Or, I can upload my own chosen photo, but I don't have pictures saved of all the albums that I have stored on my apple music app.

Please apple, bring back the previous auto cover genrator. Why should there only be a marbly, smokey brown 💩 pic for the playlist!? Ugly!

I tried this before commenting but unfortunately all I got was a plain graphic and not the album art.

I do not subscribe to Apple Music streaming. I am making playlists from tracks I’ve imported from CDs and/or downloaded from the iTunes Store. Not sure if this makes a difference.

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.

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.

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Ta. I’ve reverted to creating my own playlist artwork. See attached for one I created this week. That’s shared in Apple Music if you search for it. Here’s a link. New music playlist

I want the option to go back to using album art as well. So much so that I am throwing a hail mary and actually submitted feedback!

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It’s NOT SOLVED. The process you’re talking about is the old way. It’s is not resolved.

Yep. It’s a disaster how these baby undergraduates, who have never used classic itunes, ruin what used to be the best music player.

Every iteration of Apple Music on Mac has got worse. It is shocking and this current version is the worst by far.

i have 2 Mac Minis and I wish I’d left one just as a media server instead of updating it to this Android wanna be

I think there has been a change! For the past two weeks my new playlists have taken the first four album covers as a default setting. I can live with that instead of that boring color.

My next battle is trying to get them to respond to choosing how we view those playlists!

Everytime I log on the playlist view has reverted to viewing as playlists when I want to view as songs. I also want to have the option to choose my view options!

Who will join me on this crusade!

I can attest to this! I created a test playlist just now and it took the first four artworks displaying it correctly.

But a minute later, it reverted to the crappy generic artwork!

I have duplicated a custom playlist and so far it’s holding up the first four album artworks… if anything changes, I’ll post here again.

I know there’s good in you, Apple, you’re so close!

So it does! Thanks so much for this. It's weird, because it 'feels' like it either hasn't worked at all, or its created a playlist with a blank cover but sure enough, I tried it with an album and it created a playlist with that album artwork. I then added three more albums to the same playlist and lo and behold, it even did that neat thing where it creates a playlist cover of the first four albums in a playlist!

I then synced it from my MacBook to my iPhone and it appeared there as well.

Okay, we've still not got auto adding of playlist titles but I can live with that.

Thanks again for the good news!