"Unknown Title" playlists

There is another way for me.

If you force touch the playlist page on apple watch, then you chose 'apple watch' as your music source. It would then have a new UI of your playlists, specify the music stored on your watch and the music stored on your phone. The 'unknown title' would disappear.

Hope this helps.

Same issue here, and it seems quite rare as no one I spoke to at Apple has heard of it. Really annoying, I'm probably going to get the new iPhone when it comes out, will start from scratch then. If the issue is with the iPhone, I'm hoping that when I pair the Apple Watch again, I can install it from a back up as I'll lose all the Workout/Activity data. Does anyone know if this will be possible??

Bernie300374 wrote:

I'm probably going to get the new iPhone when it comes out, will start from scratch then. If the issue is with the iPhone, I'm hoping that when I pair the Apple Watch again, I can install it from a back up as I'll lose all the Workout/Activity data. Does anyone know if this will be possible??

Prior to switching over to your new iPhone, if you back up your old iPhone to iTunes on your computer, ensure that you choose to "Encrypt iPhone backup". This will include Health data (and also saved passwords, Wi-Fi settings and website history). If you use iTunes without this option selected, Health data will be lost. iCloud backups are encrypted automatically.

About backups in iCloud and iTunes - Apple Support

I currently have that option ticked for that very reason, but as I'll be installing the phone as 'New', I won't get my Health Data back. So will the health data come back when I pair my watch again and restore that from a back-up??

To restore your Apple Watch from a backup, that backup needs to exist on the iPhone.

If you do not restore your new iPhone from your old iPhone backup, there will be no Apple Watch backup from which to restore your watch.

Had a horrible feeling that would be the case. After in excess of 50 hours spent fixing my iTunes library because of Apple Music, to finally get it back in one piece to then discover I've got a load of Unknown Title playlists, the numbers of which are slowly increasing and the only fix so far is for a complete restore of your iPhone, which will then take another few hours to get it back to how I have it now, and have to lose all your Health Data as a consequence, suffice to say I hate Apple right now 😠 Here's hoping someone finds a fix, coz I doubt Apple will, I've submitted feedback, but I guess their inbox is fairly full right now, not surprisingly

Any update on this? My Apple Watch is showing a stupid amount of "Unknown Title" playlists. As described by others, these disappear if I select the Apple Watch as source, but reappear when I revert to iPhone as source. The idea of a "fix" being to completely restore the devices from scratch is ridiculous. I've tried to search possible empty playlists everywhere on my machine and hidden somehow in iTunes, but can't find anything. I'd love to know how to fix this...

Thanks for the update. Using the third party app "iBackupbot", I searched for "playlist" on my phone, and it turned up a ******** of "onthego" playlists (remember these from years ago?). The number of these playlists -- which don't appear anywhere visible in iTunes/iPhone -- roughly matches the number of Unknown Title playlists. I'm going to back up my phone, then try deleting these playlists using the third party app.... I'll report back.

Before I go through the process of restoring the iPhone from scratch, I'm gonna wait until iOS 9 comes out, you never know, it could be fixed with that...not holding my breath though! I've wasted enough of my time trying to sort Apple's screw ups, be nice if they could fix something for me for a change!!

Hey Will, any luck with the method you were going to try with the iBackupBot program?

Hello, I have got the exact same problem.....is there any other solution than restore the iPhone?