Apple Music doesn't play explicit songs

Hi Ccmer,

My wife also have the exact same issue, but then she did these steps:

1. Restart your phone
2. Close all recent apps (double click home button and swipe up), make sure no single app is running
3. Open Settings >>> Screen Time >>> Turn OFF Screen Time
4. Back to Home Screen, close all apps again
5. Return to Settings >>> Screen Time >>> Turn ON Screen Time
6. In Screen Time, choose: Content & Privacy Restrictions >>> Disable/Switch Off Content & Privacy Restrictions button at the very top
7. Return to home screen, now open iTunes Store, switch to Music Store and preview any explicit music
8. Choose ALLOW when the Pop Up asks you to allow Explicit Contents on your phone.

Hey, I just found out how to fix it. Go to iTunes Store, search for the same song and try to buy it. The pop up permitiom will appear. Apple Music will allow the songs right away.

I’ve got the same problem too.

I do those exact steps and this pops up

Go to iTunes Store -> Films -> pop-out а notification about permission to show an explicit content -> agree -> now you can listen explicit music

I think I accidentally found the solutions. I’m also on iOS 12.1, so here’s what I did:

• Close all recent apps (double click home button and swipe up), make sure no single app is running
• Open Settings >>> Screen Time >>> Turn OFF Screen Time
• Back to Home Screen, close all apps again
• Return to Settings >>> Screen Time >>> Turn ON Screen Time
• In Screen Time, choose: Content & Privacy Restrictions >>> Disable/Switch Off Content & Privacy Restrictions button at the very top
• Return to home screen, now open iTunes Store, switch to Music Store and preview any explicit music
• Choose ALLOW when the Pop Up asks you to allow Explicit Contents on your phone

There you go, I hope this will help you.

EddieGuedes: thank you! I’ve been searching since yesterday and going through iTunes Store solves it! 😃

Ok nothing from above helped but I found one more solution that worked for me:

I couldn’t make explicit available until I finished setting up new iPhone. Right after I finished Apple Pay and Siri it became available. I hope this helps

Yep,thats work! Thx a lot.

I go on my iphone to Films-store-search a song with E raiting and click buy- then i saw a pop-out notification about permission to show an explicit content - i agree and cancel buying. And then it works in apple music - i can download and listen raiting E content.

Apple....... 🙂

Okay I had the same problem but there is one solution that worked for me. It is you need to download iTunes on your PC (Windows/Mac) and have your iPhone connected to WiFi or through the Lightning Cable, then you can just go into Edit. There you will see a preference button. All you need to do is you can just simply go in the Restrictions Tab then you can just toggle allow explicit content to off for once, then it will ask for your permission. Simply toggle it to off and then just toggle it to on. It worked for me like a charm.

Cheers

So I tried the iTunes work around and that didn't work for me. I even tried turning off all content restrictions and rebooting the phone. Still it didn't work. Then I just went to Settings -> Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions -> Content Restrictions -> Music, Content & News and switched the option to Clean then back to Explicit and I was able to play the explicit tracks.

Hope this helps anyone facing the same horrible bug.