Issues with Apple Music after upgrading my Mac to macOS Tahoe

The change to the interface is too extreme and in many cases, not at all an improvement. Maybe I'm just not using it correctly!


Here's a list of the problems/issues I'm having:


  • No playlist song count appears in playlist interface. (Of course, you can scroll down to see the numbered list count, but I rely on simply looking at the interface to see it.)
  • Sound Check is either broken or useless. Song volumes are all over the place, with it turned on or off.
  • The History/Up Next panel now behaves as in the mobile version of the app. You can no longer switch between Up Next and History; you have to scroll up through history and/or down through up next.
  • "Show in Playlist" is no longer available in the history panel.
  • The currently playing song controls (besides moving to the bottom of the screen), no longer allow you to remove a playing song from the current playlist; you have to go into the playlist to remove it.
  • Those song controls being at the bottom is hard to accept after it being at the top forever, especially that now there's a bunch of wasted empty space above the song list.
  • Pressing the space bar doesn't always start and stop a song.


More to come, I'm afraid.


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Original Title: Music in Tahoe is messed up

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 19, 2025 1:11 PM

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Nov 12, 2025 9:03 AM in response to Mike Cuenca

To add to all of these very valid points everyone has listed, I have my own problem:


Is it just me, or is the first .25s or so of a track SKIPPED outright when play starts? Before I updated to Tahoe, THIS LITERALLY NEVER HAPPENED ONCE. Now, starting beats of tracks are missed, so bits of music or spoken words at the start are cut off; this is VERY bothersome.


Has anyone else experienced this? I do not do cross-fades or anything like that, before you ask.

Dec 28, 2025 1:14 AM in response to Todd Templeton

To be fair to Apple, they aren’t the only software/technology company to have lost their way in recent years. There are examples everywhere of money-men taking over and downsizing the very people their businesses rely on. The company I work for is a Microsoft house, and they (i.e. Microsoft) have also been in the habit of breaking their own software over the last few years.


I’ve been a developer for coming up to 43 years, and the industry seems to go through this cycle at least once a decade. They think they’ve found a “cheaper” way of doing software, and either offload or demoralise people they think aren’t needed. Then younger or less experienced people have to go through the learning curve that their more experienced ex-colleagues had already gone through, and the industry is effectively set back a few years. I suspect a lot of the recent regressions are down to an over-reliance on AI, which has been hyped up way beyond its true capabilities.

Issues with Apple Music after upgrading my Mac to macOS Tahoe

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