Cannot unfollow artists in Apple Music @Connect

Sign out from your account in Settings and then sign back in.

Restart your phone.

Reset your phone.

• Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button
• Press and hold on the Home button
• Keep holding both buttons until the display turns off and back on with Apple logo on it.

Alternatively, you may go to Settings - General - Reset - Reset All Settings

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Hope this helps!

I am having the same issue. its driving me crazy. i tried all the following but nothing helped:

1. turned phone on and off

2. restarting the phone (home + sleep)

3. recovery mode didn't help either and just to be sure, the phone was never jailbreaked.

Im not even trying to backup 32GB then restoring the phone as new because im sure its a bug. i could then just simply restore the phone back from the backup but really, i dont have time nor the energy to do it.

And im not the only one. i know only 1 day just passed since the update but more people will be writing about this over the internet soon i guess. Its already on Reddit. So overall i guess its a bug and im willing to live with it but c'mon Apple 🙂

Hopefully it will be addressed otherwise i'll just disable it from the restrictions menu. And yes, im getting the same list of artists on iTunes on the PC although i already unfollowed them!!!

Cheers,

Alex

Just ignore @connect, it's Ping Mk II

Similar issue here. The default setting is "Automatically Follow Artists" so when I migrated over my Beats playlists (which I migrated from Spotify) it seems to have auto-followed every single one of the artists represented in each of those playlists and albums. I had 2000 of them! So now I am going in and manually "unfollowing" but it's taking a long time and the number isn't going down as quickly as it should. I'll unfollow 100 or so, and then the number shown won't decrease until I switch away from that screen, wait a few minutes, and go back. So now I am down to 1642. And it doesn't refresh the list of remaining artists to unfollow until I toggle that setting on and off again. I'm just going to ignore this now (and largely avoid the Connect tab) until Apple fixes this properly.

TL;DR: We need an "Unfollow All and Start Over" button. :-/

Also, the big "FOLLOW / UNFOLLOW" button in Apple Music on iTunes (Mac OS) doesn't work at all. When you hover over it, it switches between "follow" and "unfollow" but it doesn't stick, and clicking does nothing.

This aspect of Apple Music is currently BROKEN.

I had the same problem. It doesn't seem like there is a way to do it on the phone yet. But I was able to unfollow artists on iTunes. Open iTunes, My Music, sort it by artist. Click on the first artist and you'll see their connect page pop up. You'll be a button that says FOLLOWING. Click that and it will unfollow that artist. Proceed down the list and repeat. Couldn't find a way to unfollow all en mass, but at least its a workaround until they get this fixed.

Also, make sure you have the newest iTunes (12.2).

Yeah, I can't do that. Not only is the UI slow (doesn't refresh immediately) I have literally 1600+ artists to unfollow. Not happening.

Oh and just to mention, my girlfriend is having the exact same issue. I own an iP5, she has the 6.

Fix this Apple!

Cheers,

Alex

Did you ever choose to do the "Choose Artists For You" feature in the new Apple Music? Since I seem to suffering from the same issue (where I keep getting @connect updates from Artists I no longer follow) I think it might be that it keeps you updated on the artists you chose from the floating bubbles when accessing that feature. For example I get updates from the band Above & Beyond and yet their not included in the list of artists I follow when I click on the account icon (in the upper left-hand corner). So it might be something to keep in mind, possibly.

I am having the same issue. When I turned on Apple Music, it followed all of the artists in my library, but there was a bunch of artists that I did not want to follow. I have unfollowed all of them but one, yet my account screen shows that I am following 32. I hope they fix this soon!

You can turn off connect in settings, general, restrictions... Set connect to off.

I have the same problem and it's very frustrating. Please fix this Apple! 😟