Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

It's been an utter disaster since I upgraded to iPadOS18 (not the Beta - I never use Betas), and it's almost halfway through October with no fixes.

Apple Music on my iPad is completely disabled. No music, no playlists nothing.

Note Apple Music is now working on my iPhone since 18.0.1 (just upgraded it today).

Also I notice seperately they have further hobbled iTunes on windows.

1st - Since iOS18 I have found iTunes unable to recognise any device (iPhone or iPad) running iOS18 rendering it even more useless.

2nd - If you install Apple Music or Apple TV apps for Windows it will disable all functionality in iTunes except for podcasts - music library and all.

Pathetic.

I cannot control music from multiple devices any longer when using airplay on my homepods. I used to be able to skip songs, change playlists and even control volume from either my iphone, watch or ipad. Not any more. Its absurd!

since the iOS 18.1 my apple music has been acting up specially when I try to connect to Apple CarPlay. the audio is terrible or it wont connect to my car and just plays music through my phone instead of the car speakers. only when i use bluetooth does it work fine. I prefer CarPlay so I can use Maps at the same time. Plus the audio is always better through CarPlay than with my cars bluetooth. Please apple fix this problem. I have been looking at third-party sites to uninstall iOS 18 because of this issue! Its a hassle to even go down that road but not having CarPlay is terrible! Dissatisfied customer here! I love the home screen updates with the new iOS but i’d rather have Apple Music work correctly

Right I’m having issues not only on my phone but on my laptop which is weird since my music was playing fine yesterday albeit crashing when I tried opening the queue. Like why music literally is my whole lifeline & I’m not for the Spotify commercials (SongShifted playlists to send to friends). I’ve never had issues so bad with the music app😭

I started a thread about how my Apple Music was instantly crashing when I tried to move songs around in playlists on my M3 iMac after upgrading to 15. Still doing it after 15.0.1 upgrade. If I try to drag a song from the main playlist window, to another playlist window-pow! just disappears. Only 3 or 4 people seem to be having that problem. Glad I don't stream A-Music on my iPhone! I have enough problems!

I am still having issues with my Apple Music on M3 iMac. Can't drag songs around without instant crash. Now today, I can't change the names of playlists. In the left column, it is the same, but in the window it changes, then both go back to the old name. What the crap? I ran disc doctor on the external with my Apple Music library and my main computer and things week getting weirder. Fix please!

I’ve been having issues with Atmos audio and lossless audio on my Apple TV 4K. Many times, when I’m listening to a song in Dolby Atmos/lossless, it stops abruptly about 30-50 seconds before it ends and doesn’t finish the song. I’ve noticed that when I switch to just lossless and disable Dolby Atmos, the problem goes away. On the other hand, when I switch to just Dolby Atmos and disable lossless, the song plays perfectly. I haven’t noticed any issues with my iPhone or AirPods Pro 2—it’s just with my Apple TV 4K paired with HomePods. All my devices are updated to the latest versions, including the paired HomePods. I’ve even rebooted and reinstalled tvOS 18 on my Apple TV 4K, but the issue persists.

Not sure if this new Apple Music app has bugs, or a Mr. Smith virus spreading in it. First I can't drag a song to a new playlist window, then I can't drag a song in the same playlist without an instant crash, then I can't edit the names of playlists, then finally, my playlists won't save and I wind up with a playlist with only one song in it...forever. They changed the playlist naming edit to just on the left column. When I edit, it shows up correct in the playlist window and not the left list. Then it reverts both back to the old name. This app is now unusable. I only play with my own mp3's. I can't imagine trying to actually stream with it. Has apple hired a bunch of Microsoft people? Actually, my Lenovo PC laptop is more stable at this point, and that is a sad state of affairs.

Since 18.0.1 update, I have lost hundreds of songs in Apple Music. Many of the songs show "removed" from iCloud. I have to redownload all these songs. However, some were deleted. I have thousands of songs. So I don't know which were deleted... 😣

I’m having the same issue. It freezes while I’m driving so I obviously have to wait to force close it. Whenever it freezes, it goes back to the beginning of the playlist no matter how many songs have played. It’s very annoying.

Hi, have any of you guys faced this issue that when you try to play downloaded song from your playlist with your mobile data or wifi turned off it asks you to turn it on. A pop up shows which says to connect to wifi or mobile network to play music. It didn’t happened before. I am currently using an iphone 11.

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I’m still using iTunes on my laptop to sync with my phone as the three replacements (Music, Devices and something else?) just didn’t want to play. Devices could see my phone, but wouldn’t sync. Music wiped all my music and playlists and I had to restore everything from my dying old laptop. I reverted to iTunes and although it won’t sync over Wi-Fi, it does work when connected via cable. The trouble is the Windows 11 version of iTunes on my brand new, super fast laptop takes about ten minutes to load, the Windows 10 version on my decrepit, falling apart at the seams (literally!) old laptop takes seconds to load and still syncs over Wi-Fi.

Almost a month now with these problems and nothing from Apple! The thought of dumping my iPhone and getting a Samsung or Google is growing stronger each day this lasts. The music app is worthless at this point....what I am paying for?! And Apple's complete lack of acknowledging all of this is very frustrating and disappointing....perhaps Amazon Music Premium is in my future???

I and a bunch of other people are having problems on our iMacs and laptops. I was on the phone for 3 hours last week on Sunday doing videos and preparing reports for the engineers. I noticed there was a message on the tech line about not yelling at the techs ha ha ha! This must really be getting out of hand. I was told by the senior advisor that it could be up to a month for a fix. In the meantime, I can barely limp along, making playlists without dragging any songs around. If I do-instant crash. He said he would notify me when they have an update that should fix all this. Unfortunately that is a whole OS upgrade, so who knows when it will be fixed.

My music is working again but only after hooking back to my Mac, setting it to sync no music to remove any sign of it from my onboard library, then reloading all of my playlists onto the phone once it had been emptied out.

until then the only tracks that would play were, primarily, tracks bought off iTunes, with a handful of non-iTunes purchased songs, though **** of if I know what they had in common.

it went through two different stages as well this time for my collection disappearing prior to deliberately removing everything and reloading it onto the device:

1) not being present on the device at all, including all of my playlists disappearing after this morning’s sync where I tried to add ONE song from my Mac Apple Music library to the phone, leaving nothing but my iTunes purchases.

2) a second sync attempt that failed to load most of the missing music, ASIDE from the one new song and a handful of others, but somehow iOS Apple Music now displayed all the missing tracks and their relevant playlists again, but any attempt to play them would prompt a “not available in your region” error.

which again makes me think there’s a database corruption of some kind that is making it think in iOS 18 that music tracks which aren’t associated as being iTunes purchases under your Apple ID are, somehow, region locked DRMed songs? Even if these are songs you’ve ripped from your *own physical collection*

utterly bizarre and worrisome that at an OS level there can be this kind of lockout of our own local files; even other music apps that use the onboard storage library didn’t have permission to play them.

again: all on an iPhone 12 Pro running the latest public build of iOS 18