Can't shuffle genres in iOS 9 music app

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Can't shuffle genres in iOS 9 music app

You'd think I'd have learned not to update my phone (iPhone 6+, 128 gb) after all these years. Sigh... Apparently I have poor impulse control because my phone is now running iOS 9.02. It's not bad EXCEPT for the new music player, which I HATE. Worst problem: can' shuffle a full genre. You can shuffle one album in a genre, but not the whole genre all at once, which I used to do a lot. I hope I'm just overlooking something obvious. Help? (PS: Dear Apple, Please stop "fixing" things that aren't broken.)

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 11, 2015 1:25 PM

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pickardjw

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14 points

Oct 17, 2015 7:04 AM in response to Ralf Diogenes

To anyone looking, I chatted with Apple live chat personnel and they enlightened me. Theres a new feature where instead of clicking on the genre's text or the "..." to the right of it, you can simply click the image or grey square on the lefthand side to begin playing the songs in the genre. Then, simply select shuffle in the "now playing" tab and all songs in that genre will shuffle.

Not very intuitive, but effective I guess.

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Answer 2

Oct 17, 2015 10:13 AM in response to pickardjw

Thank you. I still don't know why they didn't just add a Shuffle button to the screen showing a genre's contents, but thanks to your answer I can do what I want to do again.

-- Ralf 8-)

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ltatge

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4 points

Mar 1, 2016 4:03 PM in response to pickardjw

This changes every time they upgrade the operating system. I don't always shuffle in genre, but occasionally that is exactly what I want. Saved me a lot of time hunting for a solution in iOS9. THANK YOU!

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