Downloaded iOS 10, duplicate songs started showing up

Hi samuelschaefer,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

We understand that after updating your iPhone to iOS 10 music that is on your device which did not come from Apple Music or the iTunes Store has duplicated. How did you acquire this music on your iPhone? Was it added to the iTunes Library and then synced over to your iPhone?

If so, the easiest way to get rid of the duplicates (as long as the songs are not duplicated in your computer’s iTunes library) would be to resync your music.

Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes on your computer using USB - Apple Support

If by chance that music is duplicated in your computer’s iTunes library as well, the next article will help you resolve the situation.

Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - Apple Support

Have a great day

I've got the same issue except it's music that WAS acquired on Apple Music.

It must be a big headache of you, doesn't it?

Take it easy, there is always a way to solve it.

And I would suggest you to use a wonderful software to fix it.

Besides, no matter you want to fix music tags, fill up missing covers, remove missing tracks or delete duplicated songs, you can finished these tasks with this program.

So you should download and launch it on your windows, then choose "Manage" and you will see the "Organize", click on it and tap on the "Scan" icon later.

Then wait for the result of the scanning, and you will click on the green "Fix" button to fix the duplicated tracks when the scan process is done.

And all the duplicate songs will be clean up.

Same problem. Problem occurred previously and took a lot of effort to fix. It only affects tracks ripped and then matched; not tracks purchased from the iTunes Store. The tracks are not duplicated in the iTunes library on the Mac (running Sierra).

The only way I could fix it previously was NOT by Synching from iTunes to iPhone but by removing the music from the iPhone and then re-downloading from the cloud, album by album, over Wifi. This took a lot of my time. I need the music on the iPhone for travel. Cant listen to the cloud in a 747.

Now it has occurred again after the upgrade to IOS 10. Avoiding this is really fundamental to offering the Match facility and I am appalled that Apple has reintroduced this bug when it has clearly affected many, many users before.

I would be pleased to find any way to solve the problem without deleting / downloading bit by bit. I would REALLY appreciate Apple listening to these forums and fixing the bug. Apple just lost one long term user (a friend) to Android / Spotify when iTunes / Music screwed his library one time too many. I am not far behind.

I'm having an issue with duplicates, except its only the music I purchased from iTunes. Anyone figure out a fix for this yet?