Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

I worked with Tech support two weeks ago - did diagnostics on all the issues and sent all the data in but to no avail.

I am guessing the iOS 18.1 update on Monday won't address any of this - everything I've read says it's all about the AI features.

The Music App is pretty much worthless at this point!

I cannot open the app at all, a white screen opens and it crashes. I tried deleting and reinstalling the app, connecting the phone to iTunes and reinstalling the update, resetting the entire phone, and Apple advisor suggested signing out of purchases and signing back in re starting the phone and nothing has fixed it.

Honestly feels like over night this app has completely pooped the bed. What a sad state, this once amazing and revolutionary software is. I have a fast internet connection, my computer is not that old yet I see constant performance issues from Apple Music. They really need to fix it. When managing playlists, there's constantly issues with them. If I want to update a playlist info (name, organization) it mostly doesn't update, and I have to restart the app and try again. What a shame. Spotify certainly is looking like a good alternative again. Apple fix your s***

I was getting the same issue with Apple music. But get it fixed now. I tried two things. First I uninstalled the Apple music app and the installed it again. Second, logout of my apply account which logs me out from the music app and the n login again. It fixed the Apple Music issue for iOS 18.x.

I can't click (either with fingers or apple pen) on any new search if the band/song I am looking for hasn't been searched in the past (tried with some random and known band I never listened to). I can accurately reproduce this and 9/10 times it's an issue (tired with some big band names that never listened to but this seems to work)

Feels like a cache/database problem

A few days since the iOS 18.1 update and it hasn't frozen, crashed, and gone back to the end of the previous song. Definitely running much better. Not perfect, sometimes it takes a couple of seconds after switching to the next song to update the song title and artwork, but at least the crashes seem gone for now.

After v 18.0 iTunes update two immediate issues with music playback surfaced:

1. Album Artwork projected from iPhone15 to smart LG TV via AirPlay appears noticeably SMALLER. This is a significant reduction.

2 Song ‘playback’ quality has been reduced to the point where songs sound ‘tinny’ and raspy.

If I play music and then go use another app or close my phone for sometime, my music will eventually stop playing and the app will crash when I go back to it. So far the only way I’ve figured out how to avoid this bug is to periodically go back to the app. However because it doesn’t always happen after the same amount of time or songs (afaik) I sometimes forget or take too long. This happens with carplay, bluetooth headphones, and my bluetooth speaker.

My issues after the update are:

Dolby Atmos sound is unstable (goes on and off). After pausing the song the Atmos logo and sound return.

Songs often “skip a beat”.

I use the Sonos app to play Apple Music.

Did I mention the password problem? I thought it was a one off that my phone had forgotten some (but not all) of my passwords, but today it had forgotten a couple I had had to remind it about previously which it had remembered for a week or so, but it has now forgotten again. I’m not always at home near my laptop, where I can find them on Chrome, it’s starting to get annoying now 🤬

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?

It deleted every single song I had downloaded that’s 3 years worth, and when I try to redownload the playlists it says song is not available in my region like 8+ times and it won’t let me download it. Everything’s being really slow, and my phone keeps freezing really bad and I have the iPhone 13.

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.

Running 18.1 and it's been happening since 18. Glad it's not only me. Apple Music plays for a few seconds then stops. Repeatedly. Sometimes it'll play fine, but other times, it's useless. I notice that it also happens when I have my AirPod Pro 2 in. Not sure if it's happening anyway, but it's getting to be not much fun listening to ANYTHING because of the constant freezing and interruptions.