Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

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

It's a mess.

Many songs play in silence, until I hit the back arrows.

Sometimes "Now playing" shows the previous song.

I'm sure Apple is working hard to fix the Apple Music iOS app in the 18.1 update.

Yesss! I was forced to update to iOS 18 because it wasn’t working on the last version of iOS 17 either. It crashes, it won’t let me download any music or play music I haven’t downloaded before. Updating to iOS 18 fixed the issue for a little while but now it’s doing it again

Those running iOS 18 on iPhone and have issues with streaming on Apple Music, you can try uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it while maintaining your subscription you got! Only caveat is that you will have to redownload any songs you had previously downloaded for offline streaming.

I’ve updated to version 18.1 and updated the firmware of my HomePods to the latest version. So far, I haven’t encountered any issues with Apple Music. I can now play my playlists without any changes in audio quality or no sound while the track is playing. Fingers crossed this issue now resolved

My phone updated to 18.1 yesterday and things are much improved. The crashes after switching between playlists has been fixed, the very slow response when starting to play has been fixed, too. However, it still, occasionally, continues to show the previous song as playing when it’s finished and moved on to the next one, and s new feature has crept in. Not an important one, other than as an indicator all is not well, but occasionally (NOT every time), if I’ve been looking through a play list, when I exit out the screen re-centres itself higher up my list of playlists. So all told, much improved but could do better.

I have constant Music issues after updating to IOS18, from artwork to listings. I have music on my phone, sync'd from iTunes, that is there and can be played but only by searching for a song. The artist and album names do not appear under Artist or Album title, even when I use the search facility.

My concern is I had several custom stations I made in Apple Music radio, and they are gone. So I remade one and the apparent playlist it creates has like a handful of artists and it seems to repeat them all on a random cycle…why and I paying for that?

since iOS 18 I can’t search for a song within my playlist and click on it. When I do the app freezes hard. The song will play after maybe 30 seconds to a minute, but that essentially renders that function useless. It’s been a month of this.

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)

Thanks for the possible solution. The problem with Apple's bugs is that they do not affect everyone in the same way. In other words, a new update comes out and people have all sorts of issues from the update. Handfuls of people have the same issues, but not everyone else does.

I have synched my iphone and ipad pro directly with my music library now and they still come out corrupted. Some albums have triplets of the same songs while there will only be the single song (correctly) within the same album(s).

In addition, so many albums are missing a large majority of the songs even though they remain in the albums that reside on the Mac itself. You go looking for a specific song on your iphone or ipad and you notice it's not available.

I don't even bother calling Apple anymore. They act as though no one knows how to do basic troubleshooting. Of course, not everyone knows how to do it and I'm not denigrating those folks, but when I tell Apple that I have already done what they are saying to do, I don't want to do it over again.

I'm currently looking for a high end music server/streamer for my audio system that I can load all of my music on to and then hopefully use that to transfer to my ipad/iphone.

Apple's bugs sometimes cause HUGE problems, and this is one of them since music is important to me and many other folks.

Cheers and good luck.

Totally agree with ‘Oldoiler’ comment. Apple historically has the ‘take it or leave it attitude because we are smarter than you’ approach. It may be time to look for other Music Library Management options.

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’.

My Apple Music is glitching after updating it to iOS 18. Any song I play is stopping and starting on its own.