Music app UI issues after macOS Tahoe update

Does anyone else see the music app's UI go crazy weird after updating to macOS Tahoe?

mainly with the header in the full screen where the top bar is just empty

when the queue is opened the header of that portion is stuck at a position even after scrolling through it

the music history is lost.

I don't know it's just weird and troublesome, not liking it at all, apple please do something

or just hire me, I might have a few great ideas for the music app. I can share my resume if needed XD

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Original Title: Music app header issue

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 15, 2025 12:58 PM

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Xavier Cherval

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Posted on Oct 10, 2025 2:42 AM

Finally deduced that during the update to OS26 the music library file had become corrupted!! So binned the corrupted file and initiated a new music library file. After uploading from my hard drive 11,500 albums onto a new library file all seems well. However there are a few caveats in the new music app compared to the old one. 1) you cannot play music immediately, the app will crash. 2) You have to wait a while for all of the 'data' to load into the new music app before you can play any music without it crashing especially for a local library of this size (I haven't timed it but I leave it around half an hour from opening to be safe. However previously I could play music straight away, so this is a pain). 3) If syncing this to your iPhone, you need to be patient. when you click on the iPhone in the side bar of finder, it will appear blank for dome time. You need to leave it until all of the information is there, as in the sync button. Syncing new music will take as long as it takes dependent on the size of your local library.

Please be mindful that this only applies to a local library stored on an external drive. I do not use cloud based music, so no idea how that is behaving for other users.

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Jan 18, 2026 8:48 AM in response to Anuj_2

Tahoe 26.2, this is the most wacked UI decision ever - display the horizontal scroll bar ABOVE the play interface? What in the world are they smoking.

Jan 19, 2026 8:38 AM in response to Todd Templeton

you don't have a clue

Sep 17, 2025 3:53 PM in response to Anuj_2

It's a buggy (and ugly) disaster. Music from my library stops after 14 seconds. Sometimes it doesn't play at all. The interface is a disaster. It makes zero sense to place the bar over the song names and artists. It literally makes me feel ill looking at it.

AlWeir

Level 5

5,073 points

Oct 16, 2025 9:56 AM in response to BARSTL

This might help with your Album Art but no guarantees

Here's a workaround. Per tidbits.com (link below), you can disable Liquid Glass on a per-app basis. Stop the Music app, open the Terminal app and enter the command

defaults write com.apple.Music com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES

then restart the Music app. This will revert the two most noxious changes to the app in my eyes: returns the controls to their rightful place at the top of the window, and restores the status bar at the bottom of the playlist in "View as Songs" mode.

You can revert to the godawful Liquid Glass nonsense by repeating the process and replacing YES with NO, if such a perverse urge should occur to you. More details about the process (and options to implement this system-wide) available at this link (many thanks to TidBits for publishing this):

Music app UI issues after macOS Tahoe update