Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

This is even more disturbing: “the iPhone 16 Pro Max with 512 GB of space is turning into a buggy phone, with software to match.” I’m having my Apple Music problems with my iPhone12 and was actually thinking maybe I should bite the bullet and get a 16, but I just scratched that idea. I have always trusted Apple but this thread is discouraging.

Yes I have, it’s the worst when my iPhone has my AirPod pros 2 connected to them. Like for example if i search for a song then hit play it will literally take forever to load the new song. They need to fix this ASAP

While browsing, tapping into any artist shows nothing, no options while using the music app on CarPlay. For context, I have a lot of music (7,000 songs and 430 artists), and my own local files transferred from iTunes (Purchased MP3s and M4As from different sources).

Also, the volume normalization (I believe it is now included in what is called "Sound Check" in the iOS 18 Music settings) stopped working. There is no normalization going on, which makes me have to manually change the volume when playing on shuffle.

Hope you can fix this for the upcoming update!

After updating to OS18, many streamed music tracks from AM catalog (not Cloud) are not finishing correctly. Stop playing music approx. 50–60 sec before the end but timer continues running down to 0:00

e.g. Billy Idol – Eyes Wothput A Face

Stops playing music 0:54 before the end

Someone who is experiencing the same issue?

Tested on latest tvOS, iOS (not beta)

Since my update, my Kindle library on all of my devices, is a mess! Books I read years ago are popping up as new. I’m thinking I should delete the kindle app and reinstall, but I’m not that savvy with technology and don’t want to further fk things up

Also having issues with this. Updated to iOS 18.0.1 over the weekend and now Music app on my phone won't recognize anything I've previously loaded onto it from my personal library (songs, playlists, albums etc). But when I check the phone through Finder or the Music app on my Mac, the songs show up in their directory. Very frustrating and making me reconsider upgrading. Anyone have any new info on resolving this issue?

Thanks!

I called a few times. IOS rendered 99% of the songs can’t be played. The Apple support tech from a certain Asian country claimed to be expert asked me switch off my anti virus and asked me uninstalled apps in my PC because it’s a PC. He claimed that if mine is a MacBook should be fine. After going through the mirroring session and deleted some apps, he sounded hesitant and threw the responsibility to mine and insist I must download songs from Apple instead and fault was my PC. The next support tech told me the previous guy was not an expert which Apple claimed to be and he also can’t do anything except ask me call within office hours for support. Now every night I just try to sync and sync by leaving PC and the phone connected. Apple should have a well planned back up procedures instead of getting us to be lab mice in their trial and error.

When my playlist starts playing automatically at 9pm it only plays a few seconds of each track before skipping to the next one. Only started happening after latest update for homepods downloaded. Am using iOS 18

Constant distortion through homepods when playing music or radio through Music app. Only started happening when I updated the homepods.

They also jam/glitch and I have to restart them to get them working again

It's a mess.

Many songs play in silence, until I hit the back arrows.

Sometimes "Now playing" shows the previous song.

I'm sure Apple is working hard to fix the Apple Music iOS app in the 18.1 update.

Yesss! I was forced to update to iOS 18 because it wasn’t working on the last version of iOS 17 either. It crashes, it won’t let me download any music or play music I haven’t downloaded before. Updating to iOS 18 fixed the issue for a little while but now it’s doing it again

Those running iOS 18 on iPhone and have issues with streaming on Apple Music, you can try uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it while maintaining your subscription you got! Only caveat is that you will have to redownload any songs you had previously downloaded for offline streaming.

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???