iOS 9 music sorting options are AWFUL

Sorry, what type of sort are you looking for? You can remove the "Connect" option from the bottom menu bar by going to Settings>Music and by turning off "Show Apple Music".

Also, if you would like to send your feedback to Apple, do so here: Apple - Feedback. We are all just users here like you.

Cheers,

GB

You can sort by:

Artists

Albums

Songs

Genres

Composers

Compilations

or

Music Videos in the My Music view.

Below the "Recently Added" box you will see a Red Description(default is Songs). Click on that and you will see the dropdown with the options indicated above.

If Connect is showing up on the bottom of your display, then that indicates that you either signed up for the 3-month Apple Music trial, or you subscribed to Apple Music. That changes the entire way that your music functions on your device as Apple Music is a streaming service that provides you with access to the entire Apple Music Library. You have to create Playlists to be played offline if you want access to that music when not connected to the Internet:

Apple Music - Manage Your Music - Apple Support

Apple Music FAQ: The ins and outs of Apple's new streaming music service | Macworld

If you are, in fact, using Apple Music, then that may change the way that the My Music screen behaves. I don't know since I do not subscribe to it.

Best of luck,

GB

Hi gail from maime

You appear to missing the point here. I too have this complaint. I have used apple feedback but that never works but hey I'm just customer. No one important enough to matter, I never even get a reply or acknowledgement I have sent anything.

What Koriolanus is saying, Before (eg in ios 8.3) The music sort selection was on the menu bar at the bottom and you could quickly navigate between lists, (song Album Artist etc) Now in (ios9) if your in "Albums" and you are at the bottom of your list (W for example) you have to scroll all the way to the top to change to Song list. and again if your in songs to go back to Album. Also the "recently added" tab at the top is far too big and you should the option to show or hide it. It takes up 1/3 of the screen.

I also have "Show Apple Music" turned off and my "Connect" tab is still there.

I have Three ipods an ipad and iphone only one is updated to ios9. The rest are still on 8.3 where they will be staying until something changes. I refused to update when they did away with Home Sharing. (good to see that back though)

Bad move on Apple since Steve Jobs died they appear to gone to a rape an pillage, money grabbing attitude to customers rather than this is really cool and its what people want attitude.

A customise menu bar option is all that's needed then you can move connect and radio and replace them with songs or Artist

Duncan

Well, I am just a lowly customer as well, so have no words of wisdom for you on this.

My response was to the OP's statement that the ability to sort by anything other than Artist/Album was "disabled". I was simply enlightening the OP to the fact that is not disabled.

Your point is well taken, and the best way to get something like this changed is by using the Feedback link. Apple reads every feedback post, and what they read informs future design and layout changes.

Best of luck,

GB

I have experienced this issue as well. I tried finding the option in settings to change the sorting option but could not find until today. I'm not sure if my discovery is due to additional updates or not but the option to sort albums by title is now under setting > music. See image below.

I'm with you on this one Koriolanus - the new music app s ucks the big one. Scrolling all the way to the top just to change to artist or album or whatever is so counterintuitive it would be laughable if it weren't such an obvious backward step. Hears hoping they fix this in the next update.

Awful mess of an app. In IOS 6 it was beautiful, particularly useful cover flow. Can't be bothered with it any more - bought an Astell & Kern

IOS 9 iPhone 6

Chris Portman wrote:

Awful mess of an app. In IOS 6 it was beautiful, particularly useful cover flow. Can't be bothered with it any more - bought an Astell & Kern

IOS 9 iPhone 6

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Amen, brother. The app won't even play playlists in any order other than random?! That is sheer indolence on Apple's part to pretend nothing outside their most commercially controlled use case of Appple Music browsing exists. And before a high-level user with a lavender icon and cat picture replies to me telling me to submit feedback to Apple, I did the first day it happened. I only just updated again because its description claimed improvements for Apple Music offline playlists so I updated on the hope that they'd stopped leaving non-Apple Music playlists bleeding chopped up into pieces on the ground, too. And this is music I actually bought FROM APPLE they won't let me play IN THE ORIGINAL ALBUM'S OWN ORDER!!!!! Preposterously ludicrous and insane--and inane. Shame on Apple for failing to allocate sufficient resources, if they're gonna start from scratch re-writing the music app, to ensure that its new version at least treads water. I am not an Apple Music subscriber, and shouldn't have to be for my functionality to be LEFT ALONE AND INTACT. But I guess their hardware margin deafens them to the hideous insults their actions spew into their users' faces. And yes, all you lavender ******* out there, I'm giving Apple a black eye tonally because they deserve one.

Thanks, that solved one of my biggest issues. i hope apple sorts this mess out in the next update.

gail from maine wrote:

You can sort by:

Artists

Albums

Actually, no, you can't sort by album. Try it, you'll see.

I am SO brand new to this that I probably shouldn't even be interjecting. But I HAD the exact same frustration/problem and accidently found a work around that works for me (may not work for you). I am IOS 9.3

I wanted the songs on my playlist sorted by Title. While I can't find out how to sort on the iPhone, if I sort the particular playlist that I want BY TITLE in iTunes then it appears to sync over to the iPhone presorted BY TITLE. If I sort the playlist by COMMENT then when I sync it is in COMMENT order. I assume that whatever the sort is in iTunes, that will be the sort on the iPhone.

Who knows???

After disabling Apple Music, go to Settings > General > Restrictions.

Enable Restrictions.

Turn off Apple Music Connect.

Talk about obscure!

Seems to be no way of adding other tabs in, e.g. Genres. Woeful lack of customisability.

-Rick