iOS 10 Genius is gone

Thanks for the direct link to provide feedback. This problem is not currently solved at all.

Please keep it open, or shall we open another discussion on this?

It's extremely frustrating that a commercial push to drive people to subscribe into Apple Music disabled this functionality on purpose. It seems to be available only when you make Music offline and to rely on the songs that you have in your iOS device Library, which is very limited by the way, most is us have Libraries bigger than what the largest iPhone capacity is.

Please fix this soon, seems to be very simple to enable what was available since many years ago, and what we used to love about the Apple experience.

Agreed. As time goes by and newer releases of software, we should get the same functionality, not less. Apple needs to stop dropping key iTunes music features we have grown to use and like. They did the same by dropping iPhoto and replacing it with Photos, which does less.

It's been hit and miss with Siri for me. Right now I'm listening to one genius playlist after telling Siri she was useless, then she got it right after another request.

However if Indibt ask Siri there is no way to make it work. This is ridiculous.

Hello Apple, please give us Genius back. By myself i don't use Apple Music or Apple Radio. Especially on the road I cannot. I want to use genius, as I did for the last years - a reason why I migrated from Android to iOS. Thank you

Hello,

I am just wondering and had an idea…

Has anyone that still has AppleCare on their iOS device tried to call Apple Support and try to get them to help you to get it to work?

I would suggest that if one does that they don't complain that it is disabled or what ever, but to rather play dumb (so to say) and get them to admit that something is wrong and hopefully get it escalated to get it fixed.

You> Hello, Apple I am trying to play Music on my iPhone but one of my special playlists are not working.

You> I went into Music settings and turned on Genius but it is not working the way it used to. Can you help me get it to work again?

I don't know, use your imagination, but don't take the combative "How dare you" approach. I've found it never works. If enough with AppleCare can sincerely approach them needing help to fix the problem rather than to complain that the feature was purposely removed, it might get us further.

Who knows, maybe it really is just a bug that hasn't been fixed yet due to resource allocations or ignorance of one branch not informing the other.

It's worth a try, we've obviously tried the /feedback approach for a while and that doesn't seem to be working.

We all know that we can't get it to work and that there is something wrong.

The point of calling AppleCare is to play along long enough so that we can get AppleCare to admit that there is something not right as well, and that they can't solve it for us.

The fact that the toggle is still present, even in the latest Beta will give us a tangible advantage.

If by the end of the call you are told that the only way to use Genius is now through Siri, please let them know that this is not good usability because they can't expect users to be able to know that because there is no Manual for Siri. That would be very poor usability design and very bad accessibility design (what of the Mute and those with other oral impairments?). If Apple prides itself on being the most accessible and usable mobile OS, then they can't do this and they need to allow graphical user access. (Note, I'm a IA/UX professional so these things are very near and dear to me to get things working as people expect.)

I think that might get the Issue Tickets rolling into Development better.

Unfortunately, my AppleCare plans have all expired, so I hope those following this thread that do still have it can help us all.

If you do, please post back your results.

Cheers and thanks!

Sad news.

Shame on you, Apple.

Just installed iOS11.

1) Genius has not returned.

2) Landscape Mode has not returned.

3) star rating is unchanged to iOS10, i.e. Max user-unfriendly buried in a submenu of a submenu.

There was a time when apple was a great music player. They somehow have forgotten about it.

And "Genius" is turned on in the Music settings..

make sure to have your iCloud setting on in iTunes. Thats what i did. iCloud Music Library to be precise. Try that out.

No more Genius ..

If you'd like you can send feedback to Apple > http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

I agree, Genius playlists on iPhone are a great feature. I sent them a comment as well. Cheers.

Yes, a great feature eliminated for seemingly no good reason.

Please restore it Apple!

feedback sent

The thing that gets me is that it looks like the ability is there somewhere but disabled or not implemented properly.

Go to your Music settings.

you will see the toggle switch there.

But it doesn't change anything. 😢

I too was surprised when I tried to use GENIUS the other day. VERY DISAPPOINTED. I loved the feature ....