Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

I've had this problem with my past few iPhones (I'm now on the 6S Plus) and corresponding IOS versions. I don't have playlists - I just shuffle all my music. But I found a fix that works for me. I switch from shuffle to direct play, which is my songs alphabeticall, and play through one or two songs. I then switch back to Shuffle and it starts shuffling new songs again. Not an ideal situation but Apple hasn't fixed this for a few years (and I don't expect them to any time soon). This method works for me. Plus, when I direct play I sometimes get to hear songs I haven't heard in a long time.

Hope this helps.

I have the same problem and it's super annoying. I listen to my iphone at work and I like to go through playlists but I can't anymore because the shuffle feature is nonexistent. I wish Apple would do something about it but they're too concerned with the latest emoji's or removing features that people enjoy and use a lot! **** you Apple for ruining something that worked great.

I've been using the Cesium music player app now since March. Unlike the Apple music player app, Cesium shuffles playlists with no subsequent repeats. Cesium also shows the number of songs remaining, like Apple's music player used to do. I only use Cesium these days, saving me the aggravation of having to listen to repeated play list songs ever again. I don't miss the Apple music player app at all. Doubt I will ever go back to it, even if they get their act together and finally resolve this issue. Not holding my breath...

I'm not spending money on an app that just does what iTunes does. Every now and then, if I hear a repeat song, I just turn shuffle off for a song and turn it back on. Works every time. Sure the app is only $2 but it's the principl. Will Apple ever fix this? Don't know but I don't really have even negligible time devoted to switch from shuffle and back.

I can also confirm that wiping your iPhone and setting it up from scratch as a new device did NOT correct the problem, I had a Led Zepplin song play back-to-back 4 songs into my playlist despite their song being in my playlist only once and that playlist having over 100 songs in it. It'd sure be great if Apple would at least acknowledge the bug and say they're working on a fix, even if we won't get it until September when iOS 10 is released.

Is anyone out there an Apple public beta tester and testing iOS 10? If so are you still seeing this issue?

Guys. I hit on something.

I was hitting "shuffle" on a 58-song playlist. Then I would navigate to my "Up Next" list: 20 shuffled songs from the playlist. I repeated this many times. Always ONLY 20 songs added! What if it's just repeating our Up Next list, so we're not hearing the whole playlist, just 20 shuffled songs on repeat?

So, I cleared my "Up Next." I went back to my playlist and found the option to "Add to Up Next." Up Next now has 58 songs!!! Okay, but what if it just added the whole playlist, in order? Nope, I repeated this operation and the Up Next list is in a different order every time. Try this out, see if you have any success and report back!

JUST A NOTE: I have not yet listened through the long playlist to see if the problem has been fixed. But it may have been "Up Next" that's been screwing us up for (literally) years. Apple, if this is indeed the source of the problem, shame on you. First, fixing something not broken, and then your employees suggest clean re-installs because your Up Next feature has a weird 20-song limit if inputted from Shuffle? Come on guys...

DIsregard. At first it was adding the list in artist alphabetical order. But after repeating the clear and add up next a few times, it actually did start to shuffle the whole playlist. Weird... But it's working. Thanks again.

I'm testing iOS 10 beta and this playlist is now right below main page of the song being played. Since iOS 10, I see no repeat songs coming up anymore. Before 10, I was seeing sometime duplicates and triplicates on this shuffle "Up Next" list. Maybe, just maybe, Apple is going to be fixing this when 10 is released. Let's hope. I've only been testing it for about 4 days.

LLet's hope that they did indeed fix this... Unfortunately that won't help anyone on older devices like the 4s' as ios10 is only going to be able to run on certain devices... Looks like older phones yet again get screwed! Here let's break something so that it doesnt work for you but then we will fix it but only for newer devices forcing you to upgrade or leave all together....

I believe that this worked for me! One caveat thought - I wasn't going to add each song individually to "Up Next" (what a pain in the butt), so I did it by artist. All the songs were added into UpNext - but they are in alphabetical order. I then hit Shuffle All. The Music App then asked "After playing this, do you want to play the 99 songs you've added to Up Next?" I clicked Keep Up Next - and it showed 99 songs in random order in Up Next, and then the 99 songs in alphabetical order. If I clicked "Clear Up Next" - then it was back to the old problems.

Problem partially solved. It is a real problem to sit there and add all the songs (or albums) to Up Next manually.

Not completely solved.

First - you don't have to add all the songs to Up Next. Just add one song. Then shuffle all songs, and it will ask you to Keep Up Next. If you do that, it will add all the songs shuffled before the one song that you added manually.

But the original problem I had (where during a shuffle, the Repeat button turns on and can't be turned off, and subsequently songs are shuffled but some songs start to repeat themselves) IS STILL OCCURRING.

Time to move to Cesium.

I've just upgraded from an iPhone 4s on iOS 7.1.2 where this isn't an issue at all to an iPhone 6 on iOS 9.3.2

I've noticed today that there's the update iOS 9.3.3 - after installing this i can't work out if it's fixed this issue or not, has anybody had chance to check this?

9.3.3 has NOT fixed this bug. After it had installed on my phone I selected a playlist, hit shuffle and then immediately checked Up Next only to see that my first song was already going to repeat four songs later. This particular playlist has 509 songs in it so to see a repeat so soon was really disappointing.

Yeah i shuffled one of my playlists last night and found the problem still exists!!

I heard somebody mention the app Cesium earlier in this Thread; can someone confirm that this app will shuffle my playlist and not repeat a song until i restart the shuffle?