IOS 18.1 Apple Music Keeps Crashing

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aon1961 Author

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IOS 18.1 Apple Music Keeps Crashing

Even with the current version of IOS 18.1, the music app regularly hangs.

Here are my findings:

+ Although another song is already playing, the previous one is still displayed - after a while the app crashes.

+ Playback is interrupted and the app does not respond. Sometimes it helps to skip back to the previous or next song.

+ I only listen to music from my media library from a smart playlist. I wonder why the songs that are played next are not downloaded? Very often it happens to me that I am on the road and a song cannot be played - it is not downloaded. Intelligent prefetching is completely missing here. It should be the case that the upcoming songs are loaded and the played tracks are deleted. In my case, it takes over half a year for these tracks to be played again.

You don't need AI for things like this - just good programmers who know what to do and implement it without errors.

Best regards from Germany

Rainer :)

iPhone SE

Posted on Nov 2, 2024 2:06 AM

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Nov 4, 2024 6:44 PM in response to aon1961

I’m still having issues with Apple Music in iOS 18.1 that

first started in iOS 18.0x

Music app is still very slow when you try to add a song

to a playlist. When it brings up the list of your playlists, it can take a long

time to show the icons next to each playlist, or to show if a song is already

in a playlist, like its struggling loading them. When you add a song, it can

take a long time to actually add it.

It also heavily drains the iPhone battery when its struggling

with playlists like this. I can lose 10% battery after playing and adding 4

songs to playlists.

Random in personal playlists is broken too. Sometimes

when I hit random its fine for a while, then it starts to play only specific

artists, or starts playing in order of artists. Or it might just play songs in the

order they were added even after you hit shuffle. I have to kill the Music app

and relaunch to get back to random, but that only lasts for a little while before

the issues return.

When playing music from iPhone to my Homepods, about

every 20 songs it will play but no sound unless I rewind or skip to the next

song. Otherwise it will just silently play the entire song and start working again

on the next song (this has been an issue with Homepod versions 18.0 and 18.1)

I’m using an iPhone 14 Pro

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