"Recently Added" Playlist not updating!

Hello,

I had this problem for a number of years. I just figured out the resolution. Connect your i-pod to your computer, click on the i-pod icon that appears, in place of where you would normally eject your i-pod. You will open up a window that has two boxes. (this is in your summary) One box is labelled i-pod class and the second box is labelled options. In the options box I, originally, checked the options for, sync only checked songs and video and enable disk use. I unchecked the box for sync only checked songs and video and just have the box checked for enable disk use and clicked done (in blue and in the lower right hand corner, of your screen). My i-pod, recently played playlist, now updates whether my i-pod is connected or not. Finally it works properly. Hope this helps someone!! Peace and Blessings

Hi,

You just might want to add that to open this window, a person has to click the "edit playlist" (brown button, on the upper right hand of your screen). An amateur user may not know how to navigate to the window, that you are displaying, in your answer. Peace and Blessings

I am experiencing the same issue on my iPhone 5. Not sure about the other part but Recently Added is most definitely broken in iOS 7. How am I supposed to find my new music? Manually go through songs / artists? No thanks!

Anyone else?

Anyone got any ideas?

Having the same problem with new purchased songs not updating to recently added playlist. They do add once I sync to iTunes, but that's useless to me since I don't sync regularly.

This worked for me. Go to iTunes go to playlists tab and click the recently added playlist with the right button. Then select edit smart playlist, uncheck the "Live Updating" box and re-sync. Now my Recently Added playlist works again. I'm using an iPhone 5 64GB on 7.0.2 BTW 😉 Hope this works for you aswell 🙂

it appears that Apple have fixed the issue with an update as my "Recently Added" no perfectly represents what was recently added!

Result 🙂

That fixed my issue! Thanks Sam!!

That fixed my issue, thanks sam : )

Hey there.

I had the same problem. It's actually a Bug from the iOS, not from iTunes.

Im pretty sure that it has to do with the cache memory that the Music App has.

The problem happens when you are using the Music App and you left app in the playlist section: It sort of remember, like a picture, the last list you had in the case of "recently added". Here is the solution that worked for me, for my iphone and for mi iPad.

1. I turned the device off and on (I really cant confirm if it has something to do, but i just did it).

2. Open de Music App.

3. I FINISHED whatever song, list, album, etc, was playing, so no audio was in the "now playing" status.

4. I when to the Artist section.

5. I closed the Music App.

6. I synced the device.

And since then it works perfect, but i do always close the Music App in the Artist Section with no song in the "now playing" status.

Hope it helps!

Thanks that worked for me as well (iphone 5 16GB, ios7)

This answer was the one that solved my problem.

EVERYONE with this issue should try it.

Same phone, same software, same problem. Thank you sir for saving us all, when it wasn't working I was infuriated beyond belief. Merry Christmas.

I still have an issue. Any song that is recently added I have to go into settings and hit enter in order for the song to appear. Any idea what that fix could be? Super annoying!

Fixed my problem, thank you : )