All Favorites not showing in favorites playlist. Songs disappearing.

Apple Music’s favorites / starred playlists are inconsistent and broken.


if I scroll down my “Songs” I can see I’ve favorited tons of songs that aren’t in my favorites playlist. I made a smart playlist that displays all my favorited songs and the number is different from the official apple one, but neither of them include all of my favorites.


I was wondering why my songs kept repeating so often when I have 500+ favorited.


Can someone help me with a fix? I’m not sure if there is one considering there’s numerous posts about Apple Music’s inconsistency.

Posted on Dec 6, 2025 5:15 AM

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Posted on Dec 7, 2025 7:35 PM

  • Fix steps:
  • 1️⃣ Turn Sync Library off → on (forces reindex)
  • 2️⃣ Clear Music caches on Mac
  • 3️⃣ Batch-unfavorite + re-favorite (full rebuild)
  • 4️⃣ Restart all devices
  • If nothing works: request Apple to reset your iCloud Music metadata container.


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