Music app changed how it’s displaying my songs list, how do I change it back?

I am pretty big about creating different music playlists for different moods, for example, I have different ones for when I’m cooking, cleaning, or exercising, and other ones that are for general feelings like Sad, Rage, ‘Dance Mode’ etc. so I’m constantly creating new playlists, editing existing playlists, or getting rid of old playlists on my Music app on my iphone. It used to be when I would edit a playlist and click ‘add music’ and then select ‘songs’ it would show all of my songs in one list organized alphabetically by artist name, but now for some reason when I click on songs it has them organized by title name and it’s really throwing me off. Does anyone know how to make it go back to displaying songs by artist and not by title on the iPhone Music app?


(Now, you may be asking “but OP you can just click on the artist tab and it’ll organize them by artist,” No. what happens when you click on artist is it displays them as folders that you have to open up one by one to see what songs are listed in there, and that is annoying. This is especially annoying with artists that frequently do collaborations with other artists because each collaboration is listed as a different artist folder, for example;

KHS.

KHS ft. Madelyn Bailey.

KHS ft. Sam Tsui.

KHS ft. Macy Kate.

KHS ft. Max Schneider.

KHS ft. The Overtunes.

That’s 6 different folders! For songs that were all published under the same artist, KHS, on the same album that under the “artists” tab are all displaying separately!

I just want my songs list to display by artist again instead of by title, please, I do not handle change well.)

iPhone SE, iOS 17

Posted on Feb 15, 2024 1:41 PM

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Feb 15, 2024 1:46 PM in response to Lizzy3596

(For clarification, if I just go into my songs list, there is an option for me to change it to organized by artist, the problem I’m having this in is specifically for when I’m adding music to a playlist it does not let me organize it by artist, it’s just showing by title for some reason when it never has before and I can’t figure out how to change it)

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