Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

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

Apple keep removing my replies. I've spoken to support AGAIN today and they've said they've 'logged it with the tech team', which I don't believe.

As I said in my previous message that apple removed. Since updating to latest update of iOS 18, my AirPods no longer work with Music on my iPhone. It just produces this horrible hissing crackling noise.

They really need to sort this out because if it's not rectified by the end of the month I'm cancelling my subscription.

Naturally, like everyone on here, I “hope” they have fixed this. It’s concerning that many of us seemed to have experienced different problems. That leaves me wondering exactly what it is that they may have fixed. This blunder and then the failure to confront the problem more openly have left me questioning my devotion to Apple devices and their ecosystem.

I also had this issue since I have had it but it seems to be getting better.

Apple Music also won't stream for me on cellular data. It will play about a dozen songs and then stop and go back to the original song. It works fine on wifi but terribly on cellular data

iOS 18 upgrade music search screen freezes on iPad. I would type what I'm looking for results would shows but then the screen would freeze. Tech. support could not help.

Songs in my Apple Music playlists repeat even though they appear once. Selecting next song moves on.

yeah my album art is all jacked up too! Doesn’t even appear half the time. Wondering when the heck they are gonna address all this?!

I have similar problem witch my iPhone 13, tidal and usb DAC - audio is low quality and it’s not my feeling but I see it on led indicator on DAC

Yep mine will freeze the first cover art and play about two more songs after with first cover art. The. By the end of third song nothing plays. I hope they fix soon.

The “Go to Artist”

option appears to be gone now as well.

Yes - this is exactly the problem I am having when streaming to my HomePods from phone, iPad and ATV - driving me nuts

I figure out the solve!! Turn off vocal shortcuts in accessibility. Instantly, all issues went away.