Loss Of songs on Apple Music

Randomly all the songs from only one of my playlists disappeared and i tried everything from syncing library to checking if the song is in any other playlist or completely removed

turns out the songs have been completely removed

the entire playlist got empty and there were about 860 songs


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jan 12, 2026 2:29 AM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2026 5:30 AM

If there’s a library sync glitch, a playlist can just empty itself even if you didn’t touch it. You can try Apple Support in case they see an older library snapshot, but recovery isn’t guaranteed.


If you ever shared the playlist or used a third party stats app, sometimes you can at least rebuild it from history. Sadly Apple doesn’t really offer a solid way to restore wiped playlists.

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Jan 12, 2026 5:30 AM in response to vinesh22

If there’s a library sync glitch, a playlist can just empty itself even if you didn’t touch it. You can try Apple Support in case they see an older library snapshot, but recovery isn’t guaranteed.


If you ever shared the playlist or used a third party stats app, sometimes you can at least rebuild it from history. Sadly Apple doesn’t really offer a solid way to restore wiped playlists.

Jan 15, 2026 11:24 AM in response to vinesh22

Similar to above. I downloaded songs from iTunes Store and they appear on my Songs list. However, when I try to make a playlist of these songs, the new playlist appears in the side bar with all songs intact but, a few minutes later, the playlist disappears without me doing anything. It is only one playlist that disappears and the songs remain available on my Mac. I've done this twice with the same result. I'm running Music v.1.6.2.57 with Tahoe 26.2. This has only happened since I updated to this. Any ideas?

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