'Shuffle All Songs' feature gone on iOS 8.4

While you are playing a song, swipe up on the song in the grey area that is currently playing and there are symbols at the bottom for shuffle and repeat, the one on the left is the shuffle all icon.

It shuffles every song in your iTunes library. I've spent a lot of time over the years adding songs and albums to my library, some I've chose to shuffle, some I haven't (see the iTunes screen shot below) and now that's meaningless.

When you sync your phone with iTunes, go to the Options section on the Summary page. Under that heading check "Sync only checked songs and videos". Of course, you must go into your music section while your phone is plugged in to iTunes and manually check each album/artist you want to appear on your phone. It's well worth the time to have control of the music I hear on my phone.

Yes. You can also shuffle your music by asking Siri. But, like the initial posts say, the "skip when shuffling" feature is no longer in effect. Fireman and I, as well as millions of others I'm sure, have spent numerous hours creating an ultimate shuffle playlist that is now defunct because of Apple's oversight.

Go to your music Library, and click the word with a down arrow next to it in red between the grey lines. When you click the it you will get all of the following options: Artists, Albums, Songs, Genre... etc. click songs then you can swipe up on and click the shuffle button below.

Hey Fireman,

Just an idea really, not the overall solution but have you tried making a smart playlist within iTunes of your selected tracks?

Once it syncs with the device you only have to hit the bar on top of the playlist to shuffle all the songs...

The music app on your phone is now merely an extension of your library...

Go ahead, continue to select tunes to skip while shuffling but let your Smart Playlists do the work to filtering them out and then you only have to hit that Shuffle button on the playlist in your iPhone 6...

i know you like it random so this works, no? 🙂

So after all the initial work done (selecting songs to skip when shuffling) we should go back in do even more work? I have 2200 songs in my library accumulated over 8 years. I have hundreds of songs randomly chosen to skip when shuffling. Because of Apple Music all that work is gone. They need to fix this.

Yo,

Follow these directions and you will fix your problem, I had the same trouble but figured it out...

Go to your music Library, and click the word with a down arrow next to it in red between the grey lines. When you click the it you will get all of the following options: Artists, Albums, Songs, Genre... etc. click songs then you can swipe up on and click the shuffle button below.

Hey Bryan,

From the op the first thing i can see that needs fixing is the need to randomly start a playlist without pressing a button.

The second being to avoid all those songs you want to skip while shuffling.

The first one i have addressed very simply.

The second, while i realize Smart Playlists don't immediately offer options to remove songs you have selected to skip while shuffling, it does offer a myriad of other options for making lists to quench your desires while in your truck/on your bike/in the shower 🙂

After 8 years, surely your library has other metadata you can use to curate these list for you?

I fully understand this isn't ideal, Just giving some options. Leave this as unresolved and let Apple worry about some of the other features that are more broken than this 😝

That only shuffles within the current album. How do you shuffle the entire library?

Apple_Aficionado's reply worked. I can now shuffle all songs across the entire library. In an effort to be more clear, the place to start is My Music. At the top row of the screen, I see a red profile head icon, then "My Music", then a search icon. Below that is a "RECENTLY ADDED" section. Below that is a red heading which will say "Albums" by default, followed immediately by a red down arrow. Click this word/down arrow to get the list of display options. When you select "Songs", shuffling will be across the entire library. Good luck!

Have selected songs, but still no option to shuffle....so frustrated with Apple on this....!