Add playlist songs to library keeps turning on

This is definitely a bug, I have the same issue as well. A quick trick to this that works for me on my iPhone 11 is to:

1. Go to music from settings
2. Turn off “add playlist songs”
3. Swipe up or double click your home button (if applicable) to keep the settings app page open
4. Add a song to your playlist
5. The song you added to your playlist should not be added to your library, hope this helps :)

To add: it may have started before the update, but I unknowingly had a workaround. Typically, the setting re-enables itself after I manually add a song to a playlist. But using a shortcut from the shortcuts app to add a currently playing song to a playlist does *not* seem to re-enable the setting. I used that shortcut a lot yesterday, and I don’t remember how much I manually added songs to playlists. I only noticed the issue after I made the update this morning.

Yes, this is so annoying. I think it’s a bug. I open my settings and leave it open on the music settings to make sure it stays off and then I will add songs to playlist so they won’t be added to my library. But when I close the settings app, it turns right back on. This started happening after the update.

Me too!! I thought it was only me, but I tried restarting my phone and deleting Apple Music and reinstalling, but that doesn't work either so don't stress yourself to do so. I might contact Apple to see if they can do anything about it, but for the meantime, keep deleting songs out of your library.

Yes, mine is doing the exact same thing. It started off as being added to a playlist and library together, but now it’s not even showing up in my playlist at all, and only in my library. I’ve tried turning the setting off, but every time I open the app after I fix the setting it magically ends up back in my library 🙄 The update is the only thing that’s changed on my phone, and I’m sure it’s a bug that apple will take forever to fix like usual

I had the same problem too! What you can do is click edit in your library and deselect “album” and I’ll guarantee it’ll fix the problem!

Yes!! I found a few songs in my old playlist and i wanted to add them to my new playlist. Now they’re all in my library and its kind of annoying. I hope this gets fixed.

Also: My phone has just been lagging/bugging in general but idk if that’s because of my phone or the same thing.

This is happening to me too. It's extremely frustrating, especially since you can't delete songs from your library without removing them from playlists too. I updated to the newest version of IOS in hopes it would help-- no luck. As others have said, if you are really really quick on adding a song after turning the setting off yet again it seems to work sometimes, but that's annoying, unreliable, and only lets you add one song at a time.

If you're wanting to add songs to a playlist , go to the playlist and select "edit". Then add the songs by search. I haven't had them added to my library and I added at least 6 new songs to a playlist.

Yea I’m having the same problem. I add songs to my playlist and they add to library. Even after turning the setting off it keeps turning back on. This started to occur after updating to 17.1.2. Pls fix this quickly.

me too very weird bug, on desktop and ios same problem, option forces itself back on

I’m having the same problem on my iPhone 14. I’m very confused, because I will turn the option off, and it continues to turn itself back on.

This seems to have started for me as soon as I installed the iOS 17.1.2 update. Very annoying.

Yeah, it’s happening to me with an iPhone 12 mini also. Hopefully they’ll fix it as I’m sure it’s a bug.

This seems to a bug that crawled in after the last update. They need to fix this asap, it's annoying and it would definitely be a driving factor on me switching music streaming service. My music library is sacred. I add songs to a playlist and depending on a few factors they either ascend to my music library or stay in the playlist till whenever.