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Artist Pictures On Music App - iOS 7 Update

On the new iOS7 update for the iphone 5 the music app has itunes own artist pictures for every artist but there seems to be some that dont have an itunes pictures, the weird part is there are smaller artists with pictures but not some very popular artists i was just wondering if there was something i was doing wrong or just a bug? cheers

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 10:02 AM

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Sep 20, 2013 6:39 PM in response to CM Punk BITW

Hey buddy, I also got a similar problem here. What I know is that the artist picture on your music app is actually coming from the artist's iTunes store 'profile picture'. This explain why some artists have their own picture and some do not. My problem is that whenever I transfer new music into my iPod, all the artist just don't have any picture on the artist column. It just showed the album art. I hope that apple can give us an option to manually download artist's picture

Sep 21, 2013 12:11 AM in response to ryan970924

Yeah ive been having the sams issues with that aswell i put some new music on yday and it was the picture of the album artwork not there artist pictures, mines weird in the sense miley cyrus or pink dont have a picture but not very well known artists like doomtree do so i think its just one of MANNNYYY bugs on ios 7 buddy just gonna have to see how it is after an update

Sep 24, 2013 10:00 AM in response to CM Punk BITW

Hi. Mine is weird too. I originally updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 7 and the Artists all synced across fine including Pink, which is one you've had problems with.


I have now upgraded to the iPhone 5s and after restoring from a backup only a few of my music titles have an artist picture, instead replaced with the words 'artist name' diagnally written across a blank box.


I've tried everything from switching iCloud music off and removing and reinstalling all of my music. I hope this gets sorted but it looks pretty crappy as it stands!

Sep 24, 2013 10:42 AM in response to CM Punk BITW

Hi. Just for info, I've just finished an online chat with an Apple Support Assistant. It is a known issue and engineers are currently working on a fix. I have sent photo's as part of the chat including the fully functioning Artist images on my iPad mini and one of it not working correctly on my iPhone 5s.


She intially referred it to her Senior Advisor who had the same issue on his own iPhone. The Assistant is going to formally raise the case but assured me that it is a known issue currently being worked on. 🙂

Sep 24, 2013 5:59 PM in response to GLT1980

Thank God they have a clue now about the situation. I've called three times since the release and they seemed to have no clue about the problem. This is my number one gripe with iOS 7. I want to see my album covers; not some stupid picture of what Apple thinks I'd like to see. Now I have to read the artist's name since I can't differentiate between Megadeth and Metallica without album covers (ahh...that's four dudes with long hair, and there's another four dudes with long hair....thank you Apple).

Sep 26, 2013 6:48 AM in response to GLT1980

Same problem. When I updated iPhone 5 to iOS 7, artist photos appeared under the Artists tab. When I got my iPhone 5S and acitviated Match all the album art eventually appeared, but any Artists that has one of those iTunes profile photos associated with it shows generic text instead of the photo. Incidentally, not all artists have a profile photo, and for those that don't the music app will show an album cover in artist view instead. How it picks which cover I'm still not quite sure...


Anyway, it *may* have something to do with iTunes Radio, as I noticed those profile photos in artist view are the same one used for an artist's "station" on iTunes Radio in iOS 7. For example, check out The Beatles photo.


Please post if you find a solution...just so annoying!

Sep 26, 2013 4:26 PM in response to mrsnork

Update: Tried turning off Match and logging off of my iTunes account. I then rebooted the phone. When I restarted Match and when it reloaded all artists showed album art in Artists view, but still no profile photos. At least the blanks with generic text are gone, but this is quite puzzling. I've only seen the profile photos on devices that were upgraded from iOS 6 to iOS 7. For new devices with iOS 7 preinstalled I have not seen the profile photos. Strange.

Artist Pictures On Music App - iOS 7 Update

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