After updating to iOS 7, I suddenly have 76 music playlist, 71 of which are Genius Playlists.
To my knowledge, I did not make these on purpose. All of them are empty, as well.
It's a trivial issue, more of a nuisance, but I still do not know how to get rid of them, any solution?
iPhone 5, iOS 7
Nic,
after browsing some of the related topics, I tried the following: disabled Genius on the host iTunes account, then delete each of the offending playlists (swipe right to left on the playlist, select the delete option that appears). So far so good. Genius wasn't much of a feature for us, so no real loss.
I confirm that this is the approach for devices that attach to iTunes, mbrfan.
But, I see that if a device in walk around use is rebooted, or perhaps runs out of battery and has to be recharged and restarted, that Genius Playlist can reappear on the device autonomously. I suppose this must be the default in the iOS on the device. If that happens, just resync to iTunes which has Genius turned off.
I can understand why Apple won't fix this to make it switchable on the device: they'd have to release updates for all old iOSes, because many older devices are hardware limited to older iOSes. Changing this to be a feature in the latest iOS, and not rewriting the older iOSes would make the older devices functionally limited orphans.
Might make sense to remember to re-synch any iOS device as soon as possible after reboot, esp. a forced reboot.
How to delete Genius Playlists on iPhone 5?
