Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

Yesss! I was forced to update to iOS 18 because it wasn’t working on the last version of iOS 17 either. It crashes, it won’t let me download any music or play music I haven’t downloaded before. Updating to iOS 18 fixed the issue for a little while but now it’s doing it again

I’m having the same issue. It freezes while I’m driving so I obviously have to wait to force close it. Whenever it freezes, it goes back to the beginning of the playlist no matter how many songs have played. It’s very annoying.

Those running iOS 18 on iPhone and have issues with streaming on Apple Music, you can try uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it while maintaining your subscription you got! Only caveat is that you will have to redownload any songs you had previously downloaded for offline streaming.

Almost a month now with these problems and nothing from Apple! The thought of dumping my iPhone and getting a Samsung or Google is growing stronger each day this lasts. The music app is worthless at this point....what I am paying for?! And Apple's complete lack of acknowledging all of this is very frustrating and disappointing....perhaps Amazon Music Premium is in my future???

I’ve updated to version 18.1 and updated the firmware of my HomePods to the latest version. So far, I haven’t encountered any issues with Apple Music. I can now play my playlists without any changes in audio quality or no sound while the track is playing. Fingers crossed this issue now resolved

My phone updated to 18.1 yesterday and things are much improved. The crashes after switching between playlists has been fixed, the very slow response when starting to play has been fixed, too. However, it still, occasionally, continues to show the previous song as playing when it’s finished and moved on to the next one, and s new feature has crept in. Not an important one, other than as an indicator all is not well, but occasionally (NOT every time), if I’ve been looking through a play list, when I exit out the screen re-centres itself higher up my list of playlists. So all told, much improved but could do better.

I have constant Music issues after updating to IOS18, from artwork to listings. I have music on my phone, sync'd from iTunes, that is there and can be played but only by searching for a song. The artist and album names do not appear under Artist or Album title, even when I use the search facility.

My concern is I had several custom stations I made in Apple Music radio, and they are gone. So I remade one and the apparent playlist it creates has like a handful of artists and it seems to repeat them all on a random cycle…why and I paying for that?

since iOS 18 I can’t search for a song within my playlist and click on it. When I do the app freezes hard. The song will play after maybe 30 seconds to a minute, but that essentially renders that function useless. It’s been a month of this.

iTunes Music from iPhone15 Audio Quality using CarPlay is significantly decreased after v18 Upgrade. Called Apple Tech support up 4 levels for help. Could not fix problem. Did Apple make a business decision to compromise quality of CarPlay Audio and AirPlay Album Artwork to open bandwidth capacity and move it to other products?

This is a little late, but ever since the ios 18 update, my music libraries on my iphone and ipad pro have been totally screwed up. Almost every song was duplicated. If this wasn't bad enough, it removed a bunch of songs from the albums. However, the main library on the Mac M1 is fine.

I have resynced my iphone and ipad pro to my Mac and it has only made it worse. Now I have duplicate songs again and it has separated songs out of albums and made numerous albums that all of the songs for, should be under one album.

Keep in mind, I have about 1300 albums on my iMac. I have been trying to fix this for weeks. I do not subscribe to Apple Music, but I do have the Apple Music Sharing subscription or whatever it is that adds everything automatically to each device. No matter what settings I apply under Finder or in sync settings in itunes will remedy this.

The last thing that I want to do is delete my entire library on my Mac and reburn every CD individually. This isn't the first time this has happened. Some years ago under ios 14 or so the same thing happened.

Apple is turning into Win(blows).

Song audio quality significantly inferior after iOS v 18 upgrade. The sound via CarPlay, is like listening to song on a digital radio station when you are not yet set on the exact channel. Very upsetting and unacceptable because prior to iOS v18, audio via CarPlay was excellent.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION ?:

OK, I found a remedy to part of this issue, at least for my problems. I was unable to see playlists and songs loaded from my Library on my Mac after the 18 updates. I downgraded back to 17.7 just to have a workable option and that worked fine.

Basically, I backed up my entire phone to my Mac, and then did a factory reset on the device without transferring back my data back in. Once the refresh was done, I updated it to 18.1 and then restored from my backup. However, I still had the same issue where Music on the iPhone didn't recognize my songs and playlists, even though they showed up in Finder and on the Music app on desktop.

I then told Music to sync my library and stopped the sync before it could finish, and for some reason, it loaded my music and playlists from the desktop app as I needed it to. Not sure what part forced it to resync properly, but I now have a working app on the phone, including streaming.

tbh, I think I stumbled into this solution, so if you decide to try it, good luck.(Your mileage may vary)

Totally agree with ‘Oldoiler’ comment. Apple historically has the ‘take it or leave it attitude because we are smarter than you’ approach. It may be time to look for other Music Library Management options.

I did and it didn't do one single thing to help. In fact, it seems to have made even more songs grayed out with the message, "This item is not currently available in your country or region.", in addition to all of the other screwups it has caused. Heck, itunes won't even update the album art on my iphone or ipad, if it can even find it in it's own music vaults which practically contain every song written since the beginning of mankind.

I'm getting close to just deleting the entire library. The fact that it controls my music; the music that I OWN and tells me that it is not available is infuriating beyond words. I have already wasted WAY too much time trying to repair my itunes library.

Knowing that my itunes library is not complete on my iphone and ipad makes me not even want to use them anymore to play music, simply from the fact that, it's NOT ALL there.

This same thing happened to me years ago with an ios update and I don't recall what the fix was at the time, but I don't recall it being anywhere as bad as 18.XXX.

Good luck