Live Smart Playlists still not updating?

One of the things I had my fingers crossed for more than anything else with the update to iOS5 was that Apple would have finally remembered that the iPod (and by extension the iPhone) started life as a music player and that they would have fixed the bug with smart playlists not updating on the device, so meaning you have to rely on syncing with iTunes on the computer to get it to update. But unfortunately my smart playlists still don't seem to be working. Has anybody found a work around to this?

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 8:19 AM

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Mar 8, 2012 11:08 PM in response to hayabusa1889

Every time they update their iOS or iTunes, I complain about it, and each time I (falsely) believe that they will do something about it!


Apparently not with the latest updates (iTunes 10.6 and iOS5.1).


One work-around is to uncheck Live Updating for the smart playlists you want to sync, and recheck it when you no longer want to sync it, or to update it between syncs.


Hope this helps

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