Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

Yeah, it's almost unusable, especially if I want to play music stream for a long time as something goes wrong quickly.

1. I start a playlist and it scrolls through songs without playing
2. goes to next song and no sound
3. Airplay is a mess, homepods start making a loud 'repeating' sound as though it's a vinyl record or CD stuck at a certain point.
4. Homepods keep disconnecting while Airplay through Sony receiver continues
5. Airplay goes out of sync from one speaker to another
6. Restarting constantly does not fix issues
7. I start an album, it starts loud then halfway into a song, the sound drops a lot.
8. Playlist skips tracks for no reason

I could go on. So much Apple software is no longer "it just works" .... grrrr

Apple Music songs aren’t available THAT should be available.

My Music app is pretty much worthless since I did the ioS 18 update - major lag when forwarding songs, super long timing for song downloads, and it's pretty much impossible to add songs to playlists.

I'm unable to sync my playlists (although the playlist titles are there) or download any music that was on my iPhone prior to the update. Apple Music is basically toast.

I’m having all the same issues but also notice my iPhone 16 heats up to astronomical levels while using the music app. They need to take this seriously as this is unacceptable at this point.

No issues with Apple Music per se but HomePods/Airplay are skipping tracks after 4-5 songs...then sometimes goes right back to the song that skipped prematurely and restarts.

So now I can make my iPhone vibrate along with the music but I can’t make the music app work properly. At least they’ve got their priorities in order.

I can not listen to my entire library of all songs on shuffle anymore. I used to be able to, but since updating it is not working and just says Not Loading.

As Apple doesn’t seem to want to sort the problem out I’ve decided it’ll just be easier to cancel my Apple Music subscription and use a different music service instead.

@Robinne 96. Upgrade to 18.1. You can thank me later.

I am having problems with Apple Music, the music isn’t as loud anymore, Bluetooth’s glitches, it’s on certain volume setting and can’t get louder. I get no bass.

Yes we seem to be and Apple also told me nobody has called in besides me having the issue we seem to be having. They called me today with some more troubleshooting steps the higher ups there wanted to have tried but they didn’t help, they had me send them some screen recordings of the issues, ran a diagnostic test and sent that all in to the higher ups as a response and now I have to get yet another phone call from them Tuesday with the response from the higher ups. I told them I have seen others post about Apple Music issues after iOS 18, maybe not the exact issue I’m having but some kinda of issues but they aren’t calling in they are waiting on another iOS update with bug fixes and he said they need to call in cause they can’t make those bug fixes unless people call in with the issues. But I can kinda understand, as nobody wants to be on a weeks long phone call session with them and then having to repeat the same steps pretty much each time and no real solution coming out of it. Hopefully I do get a solution though, or at least an idea of when there will be one. I will let you know what they say Tuesday when they call me.

I’ve had the same experience many of you are having since the update to IOS 18. App constantly crashes, it takes a long time to add new songs to a playlist, it doesn’t alert you an album has already been added to a playlist, even when it goes to the next song the previous song is still displayed. Hopefully this is fixed soon.

I’ve been experiencing the same thing. Whenever I attempt to edit a playlist, Apple Music crashes and my phone becomes unusable for up to 5 minutes as it’s completely frozen. Seriously hope they fix this. It’s really invigorating