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Music issues in iOS18 - Can’t sort by album release date.

i updated to iOS18 last week and since then my library has been messed up. It seemed to duplicate a ton of songs randomly and now won’t allow me to sort by album release date. The option is there, but it flips everything from newest to oldest. So if you have an artist that you want to play their catalog from actual release dates (oldest to newest) you’re screwed. You can only play them newest to oldest.

Any thoughts? I haven’t tried nuking it and the. Re-syncing the entire thing with my computer (again…since that’s what I had to do twice when I upgraded to the iPhone 15 last year and it took an eternity since I have a massive library….)

iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 22, 2024 3:44 PM

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Posted on Oct 15, 2024 12:10 PM

Exactly the same problem.

Spent 2 hours on the phone with Apple support.

This is not an Upgrade, please put "ascending/descending" back as an option!

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Music issues in iOS18 - Can’t sort by album release date.

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