Apple Music Only Shuffling 100 Songs Per Playlist

Since reluctantly updating from iOS 15 to the most recent iOS 16, my Apple Music playlists will only shuffle one hundred songs at a time even though some of my individual playlists range anywhere from 300 to 500 songs. So hundreds of songs in my playlists are not being picked up to play when using the shuffle function. This specifically started a few days ago after I begrudgingly downloaded and installed the new iOS 16 update. I literally was just listening to full playlists in shuffle mode just a week or two back (during Christmas 2022) before the new iOS install. Is this a bug Apple refuses to acknowledge or is this intentional? This issue is occurring simultaneously on both my iPhone 13 and on my laptop with Apple Music. I’ve shut my phone off and on, I’ve downloaded the latest software update iOS 16.2, I’ve synced everything and shuffle is still only just picking up a hundred songs when shuffling. What’s the deal Apple???

Posted on Jan 7, 2023 02:48 PM

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Posted on Feb 2, 2023 12:20 PM

This happens to me too! It’s annoying. It happens on desktop as well! They need to fix this.

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Jan 9, 2023 04:36 PM in response to EldoradoEd77

Hi EldoradoEd77,


Apple Music may be working as expected here. When using shuffle, songs are played in a random order, there's no rules as to which songs will be played or not played. There's more information here: Play music on iPhone.


If you find that the same songs are consistently not being played, if Apple Music attempts to play a song then skips it, or if you see an error when some songs are skipped, reach out to Apple Support directly so they can look into this with you further. They can be contacted here: Contact Apple Support or by calling the most applicable phone number from this list: Contact Apple for support and service.


Regards.


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