Friends feature left out of ios11 version of Apple Music?

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Friends feature left out of ios11 version of Apple Music?

Hey there. I’ve been enjoying the friends feature on Apple Music since the latest release of iTunes last week, and it was the first thing I looked for on my iPhone after installing iOS 11. Was it left out of 11.0 for some reason?

All blogs and news sites still mention the feature, and it’s visible in the screenshots for Apple Music in the App Store...so I’m assuming this is a unique problem (lucky me). I know where to look (For You, tap on profile in the upper right), so if it is there, my version doesn’t have it. I’ve restarted my phone and I’ve deleted and reinstalled Apple Music, to no avail.

Posted on Sep 20, 2017 6:21 AM

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Eric Thomas Craven Author

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Sep 20, 2017 6:31 AM in response to Eric Thomas Craven

SOLVED. To anyone else having this issue: go into settings > general > restrictions > Apple Music and make sure Connect is toggled on.

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TonyRoca

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Sep 20, 2017 7:21 PM in response to Eric Thomas Craven

It will not work for accounts of children. Which doesn’t make sense because I would like to see what music my children are listening to. Perhaps they could have made it so they could not share, but at least the parents associated with a family account could. See link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204881

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Sep 20, 2017 4:35 PM in response to TonyRoca

Yeah, I definitely had Connect disabled...after turning it back on, I closed the Apple Music app and reopened it, the Friends feature was finally up and running for me.

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TonyRoca

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Sep 20, 2017 7:14 AM in response to Eric Thomas Craven

I am having the same issue with two of my Family Sharing Accounts. It seems to be more account specific, as your solution doesn't apply to since restrictions are not enabled on my devices. Can you confirm that you, in fact, had restrictions Enabled? 3 of my 5 Family Sharing accounts worked perfectly, the remaining two do not show the social friends related feature. Only social features they show are the old ones that allow following artists, not setting up a profile for sharing with friends.

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