Edward Cheal

Q: Smart playlists with many rules crashes Music app iOS 10

iOS 10.0.1 on my iPhone 7, if I open a Smart playlist that has lots of rules, the Music app on the iPhone immediately closes (crashes). It doesn't seem to be related to the number of songs in the playlist, only the number of rules. The largest Smart playlist I have (in terms of # of rules) that will open has 61 rules, the smallest Smart playlist I have that crashes Music has 120 rules (all Smart playlists with >120 rules also crashes Music). So the limit seems to be somewhere between 61 and 120 rules (100 might be a good guess). I didn't have this problem with iOS 9.

 

Why so many rules? I use rules for collections of artists, so there's one rule for each artist in the collection. I could use genre or other tag, but then I'd have to edit that tag every time I added music to my collection.

 

-Ed

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 1:02 PM