Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

Ever since the update, My music has beeen lagging. It’ll play the next song but then still have the title, album picture, and ending of the previous song. I am unable to add songs to my playlists for some reason. I search for a song in my playlist and instead of playing the song and continuing with my playlist, it plays the song and then plays random music outside of my playlist. Idk what this update has done. but i’m going to need them to fix this cause this is irritating me!!!!

I just updated to iOS 18.0.1 last night, and now this morning I went to my Apple Music and all of my music was completely gone except for some albums I purchased years ago. I’m so bummed out and frustrated by this.

So, has apple been getting back to anyone about this?

I have an iphone 11 running 18.0.1, and apple music has been VERY consistently borked.

When shuffling a playlist consisting of downloaded music, native on the phone, Music will crash just past 30 seconds into the first song. I restart Music, hit play, and the song picks up again at 30 seconds on the dot, and then the playist runs fine.

Until the next time i start it, in which case it crashes again in precisely the same way.

I've tried reinstalling the music app, reinstalling itunes on the computer, replacing the playlist, even reloaded my music.

Alas, nobody has answers for me.

18.1 is available now with no pretense of affecting the music app. It’s mostly AI stuff as others predicted. I turned off automatic updates, seeing no need to update for features largely available in newer phones (I’m using an iPhone 12, putting my plans for a new one on hold indefinitely until the dust settles) and being a little gun shy now about being the first guy on the block. I’ll continue waiting for a more promising approach to addressing the problems we all are experiencing (and it continues to puzzle me that there are so many different problems being experienced by different users).

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.

Very well said. They seem to have an excuse for everything, until they can’t anymore. I’ll never go back to WindBlows, but Apple isn’t making me very secure with them anymore.

I am in fact looking for a streamer/server now to replace iTunes. iTunes is taking way too much of my time these days in order to just simply listen to what I want, when I want.

my phone also is having a score of difficulties, all revolving around wired sync for the music library. In order:

• Began taking far longer to complete sync, seeming to hang at the part where it gets ready to sync tracks (checked music, checked playlists, new additions to the desktop library)
• Proceeded to declare almost all of my onboard music files ineligible for playback because of region issues, for files that were *local data to the mac*
• above prompted removing all music from the phone and reuploading them, restoring my legacy music collection
• new problem: the latest dozen or so tracks appeared as present in library, but playing them would result in other songs in collection playing. Now they won't resync to phone.

mobile device: iPhone 12 Pro with iOS 18

desktop: 27" iMac 2018 with Catalina 13.7 (latest catalina update as best I can tell; hadn't upgraded yet because a friend and others online had been running into USB connnection errors)

EDIT: After deleting the tracks, removing them from the desktop library, re-adding them to the library, and trying multiple sync attempts, including having to unplug and plug the phone back into the desktop, the songs finally are back on the phone and working again.

Yeah, it's almost unusable, especially if I want to play music stream for a long time as something goes wrong quickly.

1. I start a playlist and it scrolls through songs without playing
2. goes to next song and no sound
3. Airplay is a mess, homepods start making a loud 'repeating' sound as though it's a vinyl record or CD stuck at a certain point.
4. Homepods keep disconnecting while Airplay through Sony receiver continues
5. Airplay goes out of sync from one speaker to another
6. Restarting constantly does not fix issues
7. I start an album, it starts loud then halfway into a song, the sound drops a lot.
8. Playlist skips tracks for no reason

I could go on. So much Apple software is no longer "it just works" .... grrrr

Apple Music songs aren’t available THAT should be available.

My Music app is pretty much worthless since I did the ioS 18 update - major lag when forwarding songs, super long timing for song downloads, and it's pretty much impossible to add songs to playlists.

I'm unable to sync my playlists (although the playlist titles are there) or download any music that was on my iPhone prior to the update. Apple Music is basically toast.

I’m having all the same issues but also notice my iPhone 16 heats up to astronomical levels while using the music app. They need to take this seriously as this is unacceptable at this point.

No issues with Apple Music per se but HomePods/Airplay are skipping tracks after 4-5 songs...then sometimes goes right back to the song that skipped prematurely and restarts.

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.