Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

I am having problems with Apple Music, the music isn’t as loud anymore, Bluetooth’s glitches, it’s on certain volume setting and can’t get louder. I get no bass.

I've had similar issues, I updated all my devices to the latest operating system (iOS/tvOS18) and I've had playback issues while streaming music from Apple.

The biggest issue is the complete interruption of certain songs after a while: usually the song plays for several minutes and cuts out before the end of the song. The timeline keeps moving forward but no sound until next song.

Additionally, several equaliser and volume issues have occurred while playing from HomePods (OG version).

OMG! I thought I was alone on this. I am a heavy Apple Music user and it keeps crashing. The songs will mix together 15+ seconds before the current song ends. Additionally, the app keeps deleting downloaded songs, especially "Saturn" by SZA. I have deleted the current song, but the file won’t delete until a day or so. Once I try to download it again, it does not download nor does it save back in my library for another day. I can still listen to it by searching it on Apple Music as opposed to my library, yet I can’t do that if I’m in the subway or somewhere without internet. 😔

For Apple to say no problems with Apple Music after the ios18 update is ridiculous. I have intermittently experienced many of the issues described in this thread, although I would not go so far as to say it renders the app unusable. It surely does render it extremely irritating. I love exploring their library and discovering new music, then saving it in the appropriate playlist(s). That *was* beautiful. Now my primary and ever present complaint: what used to occur nearly instantly now consumes upwards of 30 seconds. Click to save to a playlist and…dummydum dummydum…thumbs a-twiddling…waiting…waiting… This goes beyond clunky.

Same thing here. Virtually not usable. Pretty sad for a paid service that crashes, hangs, lags, etc. Apple knows, but will never admit. Reminds me of a Windows product. Also causes all 3 of my ipads to get very hot. Looking at alternative music services. I live for my music. Lesson learned. Don’t be so quick to update software.

Ok new update from me - I got my new iPhone 16 Pro Max today, synced my music to it and guess what? Having the SAME issues on the new phone. I’m not sure what to do at this point we shouldn’t have to pay for something that doesn’t work or that we can’t even get an estimated time frame of when it will be fixed.

I have been having the same issues. Especially when listening with AirPods Pro’s 2nd(USBC). My music plays, the quality is good but then as you get to the best part of the song it will either skip the song or it will pause and when I manually open music I see it paused because the app crashed. I at first thought it was maybe the force sensor on the AirPods that was faulty but then I gave it some thought. If it was the force sensor shouldn’t the same or similar issue occur when watching YouTube, Netflix… or even while listening to podcast? Right? It’s definitely not the force sensor that’s faulty

It's a level of software degradation that I didn't know was possible in a music-streaming product. Editing and Sorting playlists is broken and often will not sync across devices; adding songs to playlists or favoriting an album or song can take up to 10 seconds. My phone also heats up specifically when using the app and no other apps. Not sure what is going on under the hood here, but I'm on a 16 Pro, and it's the worst-performing app I've ever had on an iPhone from Apple. I am incredibly frustrated and disappointed that it has neither been fixed nor acknowledged.

Since updating to iOS 18.1, music in my library on my MBP is not available on my iPhone. I was told by Apple’s tech support that it’s because the missing music was purchased via a third party site, not iTunes Store. But that’s the whole point of iTunes Match. I’m sorry I updated my iOS.

Has anyone tried 18.1.1 which apparently dropped overnight? It only purports to address security issues, but I am wondering whether it might affect the Music app, either positively or negatively. I learned my lesson with iOS 18, turned off automatic updates, and will await the verdicts of those braver than I am.

I know nothing about coding or programming, but I have noticed that there is a wide variety of problems being reported. My issues are relatively minor, just annoying…ridiculous delays when adding a song to a playlist, infrequent jettisoning of a song halfway through playback.

Others have catalogued really egregious problems. The silence from Apple about this is deafening. Some say Apple does not read these community support boards. It seems to me that, if they did, they might ponder what they screwed up that could cause such a varied distribution of diverse problems. There is no shortage of clues from which they could triangulate.

I violated my usual protocol and updated my phone to iOS 18 right away. Once I witnessed my issues, while finding nothing online initially to suggest a problem with iOS 18, but noticing the precise correlation of my issues and the upgrade, I turned off automatic upgrades on my other devices.

Further to my previous post that 18.1.1 has made no difference - yes it has, the battery now drains at a ridiculous rate. In the last 20 minutes it’s drained 15%, 2 of them while typing this post. It’s done this every day since 18.1.1 installed. This is where I need a shaking head in hands emoji.

Useless. Releasing an update with so many bugs. Or is it a conspiracy to force us to purchase the latest phone. Been a Loyal Apple user for some time. But looks like the King is otw out.

Hello Apple, does anyone even care about this problem?????