Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

I figure out the solve!! Turn off vocal shortcuts in accessibility. Instantly, all issues went away.

Have you tried logging out of Apple Music / iCloud, rebooting the device and logging back in?

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)

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.

Are you sure that the delay in playing a tune is not because your phone is having to re-download that tune?

That’s what happened to me – Apple removed so many downloads when I upgraded the iOS I’m constantly finding tunes that were previously downloaded have been removed and only their name appears, consequently the phone is using huge amounts of data to re-download the tunes and sometimes even when that’s done, for some reason they haven’t been successfully downloaded.

It’s a complete mess.

Please get in touch with Apple Feedback, those are the only people within the organisation who actually read users’ comments – the more of us that comment, the more likely it is they’ll do something about it.

It’s not just Apple Music , it’s also affected Amazon music .

tried it with lightning headphones and 2 other Dacs and it’s the same . Grainy sound, no space , 2 Dimwnaional. Sounds like a low res MP3 from 20 yrs ago

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.

Constant distortion through homepods when playing music or radio through Music app. Only started happening when I updated the homepods.

They also jam/glitch and I have to restart them to get them working again

I was able to fix the issue by exporting the music files on my MacBook, the re-importing the same files into iTunes. Bottom line: music on iOS 18.1 is glitchy and the techs don’t always know what they are talking about.

Have you reported this via Apple Feedback? If not, please do - everyone needs to do this as it is the best way of getting bug reports to Apple that are actually read. More chance they will do something about it.

Exactly what you describe has happened to me too - the rightful download of my bought and owned CDs not working; the editing or deleting of my perfectly respectful/polite posts on these forums.

Having been a loyal customer across several product ranges within the Apple line up since 2012 (and also persuading my family to join as well), I am now seriously thinking of jumping ship. I really feel betrayed.

However, I would urge everyone affected to take part in Apple Feedback (use your favourite search engine to get you to the right page), as Apple doesn't typically pay attention to these forums, but they do read Feedback. The more that report it, the higher the chance they will devote resources to fixing it.

Hi bayron101 - you need to call Apple Support and engage with a customer service operative to assist in solving this problem. Apple technicians don't monitor all these consumer forums (normally), so you are unlikely to receive Apple assistance on here. Also you should file a Feedback report via the Apple Feedback page; that is the only sure way to get your problems read by Apple technicians. Good luck

18.1 appears to have fixed my disappearing playlists and randomly closing apps. So far….so good.

when you are connected to AirPods and hold down the volume panel , the headtracking has to be turned off to enhance the volume instead of it being on but before the iOS 18 update, it was the other way around.

18 wronked up my music database on PC and iPhone. Had a buncha songs poof away. Not whole album, just some of the songs on an album. Unable to get them back by syncing, had to use a squirrelly workaround. But that wasn’t practical for the gobs of missing songs. Ended up deleting the entire iTunes music folder on my PC and starting over. Spent a whole day on this, it’s mostly ok now, a few glitches left.

this should never have made it out the door. Someone needs a different job.