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iOS 10 Music App Missing Artist Icons

When sorting my Library by Artists, the iOS 10 Music app is missing an icon for most of my artists, even if all of that artists's albums have cover art. I would much prefer to use the cover art from one of the albums if iTunes can't find an artist image.


For the image below, every one of those artists has album cover art for every one of their albums.


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iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 11:58 AM

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Posted on Sep 13, 2017 5:11 AM

And with the latest nifty iTunes update (12.7.0.166), the problem persists. No icons for most of my artists. Not only should it pick a default icon from an album cover, I should be able to edit the artist icon, just as I can edit the album artwork.

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Sep 22, 2016 7:58 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

Yeah and it's bad enough with a generic icon but why such a hideious one??? The baby blue and pink colors are fine for new parents but so horrible looking to normal people. And why a microphone when half of all music is instrumental with no vocals at all. Grrrrrr. Getting closer to trying Android the more Apple makes stuff worse and worse.

Sep 22, 2016 8:03 PM in response to mrtew

Don't compound the ridiculousness of this issue with something even more ridiculous. Music on Android is hideous at best. On the music side alone, although I am sure there is software to make life easier, the out of box experience of manually dragging and dropping media files is horrific for me when I have such a highly structured folder system comprising over 20,000 songs.


This does stink like a money grab to force more folks into Apple Music and away from their own collections. Not cool, but let's keep our heads here!

Sep 24, 2016 8:56 AM in response to Bill St. Clair

This really is so aggravating. Who wants to open up their prized music collection and see some icon that has nothing to do with anything. Our artists are in our iTunes because we love them. Digital music is tough enough to feel close to already, with having no album in our hand, no CD insert to flip through, no lyrics, no recording information, no going through the "thanks" to see who we want to appreciate. And now we have to see all our beloved artists looking like they aren't important enough to have a chosen image? Ugh to the UGH, Apple!

Sep 25, 2016 2:51 PM in response to Bill St. Clair

Same issue.


I love music and meticulously take the time review and correct the info for each album, including the artwork.


I would like to take this issue further and would love to have a feature where we could specify an image for the artist, instead of relying of Apple's image selection.


Basically, I hope Apple fixes your concern, but then also provides an image override feature for each artist where we can control the artist image for our library!

Sep 25, 2016 7:00 PM in response to mrtew

Fully agree and the circles for the photos is also so wrong and ugly. I feel Apple has really lost its way with music and iTunes since Steve Jobs died. Spotify is 100x better than the crap Apple is producing and the shame of to all is Apple used to be a leader of great music applications.

iOS 10 Music App Missing Artist Icons

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