Can’t delete Favorite Songs Playlist from Apple Music Library

Agree wholeheartedly. I was using Spotify before this, and I decided I wanted to get rid of ads, but instead of buying Spotify premium, I bought Apple Music. Part of the reason for this, was because I dislike how these music platforms force you to use favorites playlist. Apple Music is even worse than Spotify. On Spotify, if you have no music in the playlist, it'll go away, but on apple music if you have no music in it, it stays. I really hope Apple gives us an option turn this feature off, or better yet just removing it if you have no favorites.

This worked for me. It’s far from ideal, but it’s a better solution than Apple is offering. What would be ideal is if they didn’t force things without giving an option to revert it to how it was before.

This solution also allows me to ask Siri to “play my Favourites playlist” to play the playlist that I created myself, whereas before Siri would default to the Favourite Songs playlist that I never wanted or asked for.

I don't get it Apple. What is so freaking hard not to constantly add features everywhere that nobody has asked for?

Everyone who wanted a favorites playlist could have created one on macOS using a Smart Playlist: right click playlist area, New Smart Playlist, select "Favorite" "is" "Favorited", hit OK. Takes 15 seconds. There was no need to add that as a non-removable playlist.

But there are no Smart Playlists on iOS? Exactly! As that's a features thousands of people have asked you for already and that for over a decade but when people ask for a useful feature, of course you don't add it! As that would allow people to decide for themselves, who could ever that, right?

I feel as though the playlist is extremely unnecessary because if a user wants a 'favorites' playlist they can create it themselves. I have an aesthetic going on with all of my albums and it is very irritating whenever the font doesn't match (i used a fonts app btw) and the cover is not my taste.

Off Topic Suggestion: I think apple should consider making an optional folder for albums if the user feels necessary. I would like a folder for all of my different summer playlists. Thank you for reading this!!

Indeed. I *did* create my own favorites playlist, years ago, which I named—wait for it—“Favorites.” Suddenly now if I want to play the playlist I’ve built up over years, I have to take my iPhone out of my pocket and select it manually, because no matter how carefully I phrase it, if I use the word “favorites” at all, Siri will play Apple’s new “Favorite Songs” playlist. And, yes, no option to remove it. Thanks for nothing, Apple.

The music I play most often is typically albums or playlist I recently added to my library. If I want to go back to an older playlist, I open the playlists tab. Now because Apple decided I NEED this, I’m stuck with an ugly red star in my recently added which I DID NOT recently add. To me it’ll like the U2 album all over again, except I can’t remove it. A favourites playlist is not a “feature” if I wanted it I would make it myself. If Apple wanted to make it easier to add music to that kind of playlist for people who do want it, fine, let me delete it. Adding playlists to my library is hugely invasive.

This is genuinely going to make me switch to Spotify or switch off Apple in general I’ve been considering switching to Samsung because of all the unnecessary bull sh*t Apple shoves down our throats. I just wanted to listen to music to calm my anger yet that almost made me through my phone across the room

So annoying it won't even let me sort it to the end of all playlists. Has anyone tried to unfavorite all songs? Did the list disappear then? I'm tempted to try, but with over 350 favorites, that's too tedious of a process to attempt without knowing the end result.

I debating on keeping my iPhone 15 in a drawer or using it as an iPod. I have only ever had an iPhone since iPhone 4

mayne android is the way to go. Once I get over the fear and frustration of learning a new phone maybe it will be better. 🤷‍♂️ Apple seems to be telling me what I want and what I like, instead of letting me decide. From playlists, to photo libraries, to that dumb U2 album I had to delete. I don't want to be told what I like. I would rather be asked.

Agreed. Completely annoying. Again, apple inventing and "forcing" unwanted stuff. The whole idea of a playlist is that I can create a "favorite" if I choose. I don't need Apple to do it.

I absolutely dread Apple Updates because something new and useless seems to happen every time.

Apple Music, PLEASE remove this FAVOURITE feature added - it’s impossible to delete. You added three songs there that I don’t even have on my actual downloaded song list. I don’t want those songs on there and it needs to remove ASAP. You created a feature but didn’t think that other apple users have preferences to their own music. We should have the capability to control what we want to add, delete, or create playlist with our choice ONLY. You shouldn’t be creating a permanent playlist for us and adding songs we don’t listen to or even like either. To keep in mind that people tends to change their taste of music as we grow or they just need a change. Sometime they want to delete what they want and start a new genre of music of their choice. WE DON’T NEED YOU TO CONTROL WHAT WE SHOULD LISTEN TO ON THAT PERMANENT PLAYLIST YOU CREATED. ALSO WE DON’T WANT TO LOOK BACK AND LISTEN TO MUSIC IN THE PAST THAT WAS SO LONG AGO. I highly suggest you remove this feature due to everyone request ASAP. SADLY, you will losing customer pretty fast with this unnecessary features. I am insisting and as well as all the other comments that been made on here; again I said this several time already but PLEASE remove this feature as requested. Thank you!

Etcccc, I am just not sure - it worked for me and my playlists and my vehicle as a work around. My playlists are in alphabetical order. I think I monkeyed around with it for a good half hour to get everything to work the way I wanted it to. Good luck!!!

YES!!!! WTF? This absolutely is incredibly BS!!!!! This feature needs to go away!!!!!!! Especially since there was absolutely no 'heads up, no warning and no permission given by Apple, or iTunes!!!!! Also, the odd thing is, that this playlist feature only affects my phone. It's no where on my Mac.......

Same as many others I have by mistake favorited a song. Now I'm stuck with empty undeletable playlist on all my devices. Can't change the art, can't change the name, can't remove it. I'm deeply displeased.

Got the same question a couple of days ago trying to clean my Apple Music feed and playlists a bit.

Very annoying to have an empty playlist and not having the option to enable it or not in the Settings of the Music app, or even not having it disappear automatically when you have no favorite songs at all 🙃