Playlists from Apple Music are empty on iPhone

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Turn on iCloud Music Library

When iCloud Music Library is turned on, you can access your entire music collection across your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, Mac, or PC.

With your Apple Music subscription, you can access your music library on all of your devices as long as you're signed in to all of your devices with the same Apple ID and iCloud Music Library is turned on.

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Published Date: Nov 3, 2017

Are these "Smart" playlists that are having the issue, because Apple Music, and more importantly iCloud Music Library has never been "perfect" at syncing any Smart Playlist that I make on my iMac. However, they are generally not completely empty like you are seeing.

This did not help me at all. I just bought a new iPhone X and my playlists all show as empty on the new phone though they show songs on both my MacBook Pro and my iPad.

Not just playlists but lots of music I have added to "My Music" is not there on my phone but is there on my other devices.

I have tried everything I can think of, disabling and re-enneabling uninstalling and re-installing the app. Ridiculous!

Seriously what happened to apple just works! This is extremely frustrating after spending money on this new phone and my music collection is totally borked. If this is not fixed by Jan 9, I will cancel my Apple Music and go back to Spotify. You are really blowing it apple, this is unacceptable.

I feel your pain. I have been an Apple user since 1987 and I am so frustrated with what seems like a lack of testing and debugging before new products or services are released from Apple. I reluctantly signed up for Apple Music because of having moved to the UK several years ago from the US and having two apple ids. I had purposely avoided iCloud due to having to be signed in to one country or another in order to access purchases from my two accounts. After reading of nightmare scenarios about iTunes libraries going awry after signing up for Apple Music or MAtch, I decided a few months ago that enough time had passed since Apple Music was introduced and that surely the bugs would be worked out. I didn't have too many of the library issues I've read about other than what I expected from having purchases from two ids, but I quickly learned that smart playlists DO NOT work with Apple Music. They will work on an iMac where the files reside, but smart playlists do not sync to the iPhone. I am very particular with my large music library. I have all of my music rated with so much time invested in genre labels and even special tags in the comments of each song. I have tried every avenue of Apple Support to address the broken smart playlist issue: online chat, phone, genius in-store appointment, to no avail. I don't go into all the details of all of the things they asked me to check and update, blah blah blah. They don't know how to address the problem. I believe that's mainly because they will not admit Apple Music does not support smart playlists. It's very frustrating.