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Has anyone experienced issues with Apple Music in iOS 18? For example, audio quality lowered despite Dolby Atmos and EQ off? Or trying to scroll through your playlist and the app crashes?
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iPhone 15, iOS 18
Me. So thankful to find someone else with this issue. My Apple Music has been almost unusable since the upgrade to iOS 18. Crashes when scrolling a playlist, crashes when trying to remove songs from a playlist. Won’t let me edit larger playlist. Also freezes a lot, is super slow, and the audio quality has decreased. I have been on basically a 4 day phone call with a Apple Senior Adviser about this and they can’t figure it out, plus they say nobody else besides me has reported to them issues with Apple Music on iOS 18. Which is hard for me to believe. The tech is calling me back tomorrow with what his bosses said about the screen recordings i sent them showing my issues. I’ve done every troubleshooting step they can think of except reinstalling iOS 18. I hope they can figure it out cause it’s annoying me to no end not being able to use my music.
My issues were not as comprehensive as most here. Mostly around Homepod and playlists skipping and pausing unexpectedly etc. ive been rolling since 18.1 released and that issue at least has gone away.
It is 10-5-2024. After updating to OS 15 on my iMac, I have been having trouble with instant crashes when I try to drag a song from one playlist to another, so dragging a song in a single playlist. It's really ridiculous.
Another issue I've noticed is it sometimes forgets a song has been played and reverts Play Count to a previous value. I have a fair few audio books so in order to remember which chapter I'm up to I have a smart list showing tracks played less than X number of plays. A few times recently I've gone into the playlist and a few earlier chapters are appearing. In fact in the last few minutes I went into the playlist intending to set it playing when the current song by Peggy Lee finished and it was the correct chapter showing. Before the song currently playing finished Music crashed and when I opened it back up two earlier chapters were showing as the next to play from my audio book.
Hey all iOS 18.0.1 is out and it fixed some issue regarding
Performance Enhancements
Some iPhone models experienced performance issues due to memory allocation problems. The update addresses these issues, improving performance and stability across various devices.
Fixed slow downs and crashes for me.
Even before last update there’s something wrong in Apple Music especially the quality of the sound, if you compare Apple Music with YouTube just for example YouTube music will win hope they will fixed it soon cuz it’s a great app for music we can’t live without it:))
This happened to me twice with one song immediately after the update. It cut off exactly 1:13 at the end of the cut. The third time I played it directly (not in a playlist sequence) and it played through. This problem has not recurred for me. My primary complaint is how clunky the response is when I try to add a cut to a playlist, rendering that feature extremely annoying and verging on unusable. The other discouraging thing is - judging from this board - how long it took Apple to acknowledge that there is even a problem.
Another issue I've identified is that when I turned on my laptop it causes my iPhone to crash when playing music. This happened every time so yesterday I turned off Bluetooth on my laptop and now when I boot it up the phone no longer crashes (tried a few times). I think I'll try turning it back on and see what happens (will my phone start crashing again?), and then try telling my laptop to forget my phone, see what happens then (will it stop crashing?)
After updating to ios 18, had a couple of crashes but seems to be getting better. however, i cannot add songs to any playlist unless i edit the playlist and add them through search. at first i thought my playlist or library was too big but after clearing some room, it’s still a problem. i’ve been using apple music for about seven years and have never had a problem until now. any suggestions on how to fix this?
It's been an utter disaster since I upgraded to iPadOS18 (not the Beta - I never use Betas), and it's almost halfway through October with no fixes.
Apple Music on my iPad is completely disabled. No music, no playlists nothing.
Note Apple Music is now working on my iPhone since 18.0.1 (just upgraded it today).
Also I notice seperately they have further hobbled iTunes on windows.
1st - Since iOS18 I have found iTunes unable to recognise any device (iPhone or iPad) running iOS18 rendering it even more useless.
2nd - If you install Apple Music or Apple TV apps for Windows it will disable all functionality in iTunes except for podcasts - music library and all.
Pathetic.
I cannot control music from multiple devices any longer when using airplay on my homepods. I used to be able to skip songs, change playlists and even control volume from either my iphone, watch or ipad. Not any more. Its absurd!
since the iOS 18.1 my apple music has been acting up specially when I try to connect to Apple CarPlay. the audio is terrible or it wont connect to my car and just plays music through my phone instead of the car speakers. only when i use bluetooth does it work fine. I prefer CarPlay so I can use Maps at the same time. Plus the audio is always better through CarPlay than with my cars bluetooth. Please apple fix this problem. I have been looking at third-party sites to uninstall iOS 18 because of this issue! Its a hassle to even go down that road but not having CarPlay is terrible! Dissatisfied customer here! I love the home screen updates with the new iOS but i’d rather have Apple Music work correctly
Right I’m having issues not only on my phone but on my laptop which is weird since my music was playing fine yesterday albeit crashing when I tried opening the queue. Like why music literally is my whole lifeline & I’m not for the Spotify commercials (SongShifted playlists to send to friends). I’ve never had issues so bad with the music app😭
I started a thread about how my Apple Music was instantly crashing when I tried to move songs around in playlists on my M3 iMac after upgrading to 15. Still doing it after 15.0.1 upgrade. If I try to drag a song from the main playlist window, to another playlist window-pow! just disappears. Only 3 or 4 people seem to be having that problem. Glad I don't stream A-Music on my iPhone! I have enough problems!
I am still having issues with my Apple Music on M3 iMac. Can't drag songs around without instant crash. Now today, I can't change the names of playlists. In the left column, it is the same, but in the window it changes, then both go back to the old name. What the crap? I ran disc doctor on the external with my Apple Music library and my main computer and things week getting weirder. Fix please!
I’ve been having issues with Atmos audio and lossless audio on my Apple TV 4K. Many times, when I’m listening to a song in Dolby Atmos/lossless, it stops abruptly about 30-50 seconds before it ends and doesn’t finish the song. I’ve noticed that when I switch to just lossless and disable Dolby Atmos, the problem goes away. On the other hand, when I switch to just Dolby Atmos and disable lossless, the song plays perfectly. I haven’t noticed any issues with my iPhone or AirPods Pro 2—it’s just with my Apple TV 4K paired with HomePods. All my devices are updated to the latest versions, including the paired HomePods. I’ve even rebooted and reinstalled tvOS 18 on my Apple TV 4K, but the issue persists.
Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update
