Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

Yes Oldoiler - they removed my post. I can see they edited yours as well. I'm really not sure what I said wrong in my post that caused them to remove it - nor the previous post by Allezrider too.

All I really wanted to say is that whoever has a determination to attempt to get the company to fix stubborn issues should appeal via the Feedback page (easily found if you search for it via your favourite search engine). Reports collated via that page are actually taken into account, so there is more chance of a fix if everyone reports bugs etc in that manner.

Hope that helps. Also hope this post doesn't get deleted as well........

Just left a nice note on the Apple feedback site. I'm sure they're diligently reading it now(can you hear the sarcasm?). I've updated to 18.2.1 with no resolution. This has been too long. Not sure if anyone has found a resolution but I hope they fix it soon. Getting ready to find a third party fix.

I see that my posts reporting that since the new updates have come in I’ve had 600 songs that I uploaded from cds go missing & songs bought in an another country also go missing. Strange that !! especially when I mentioned that I was looking at alternatives.

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

Two problems surfaced since installing v 18 1 wk ago:

1. Using AirPlay on iPhone15 to play song and Album Artwork from iTunes playlist onto a smart TV, the Album Artwork projection on TV is noticeably SMALLER in center of TV screen. Gives appearance it has been crammed in a box.
2. Using CarPlay with a high end music system in car, the Audio quality is significantly inferior after v18 update. The sound is ‘raspy’ and broken up. Totally UNACCEPTABLE. Was on phone with 4 level Apple Tech support and they could not fix problem. Suspicion is Apple made decisions to compromise features to balance ‘streaming overhead’.

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

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.

So now I can make my iPhone vibrate along with the music but I can’t make the music app work properly. At least they’ve got their priorities in order.

I can not listen to my entire library of all songs on shuffle anymore. I used to be able to, but since updating it is not working and just says Not Loading.

@Robinne 96. Upgrade to 18.1. You can thank me later.

Many of my songs aren’t playing at all. I mean songs I’ve had for years!

Ha ha ha, woke up this morning and opened Music on my phone and the first thing it did was display an advert offering three months free if I subscribe to streaming. Fat chance!