Apple Music deleting non-purchased content

Last night I updated iOS to the most current version, 18.4 I think. When I started off on my drive to work I found all of my non-purchased content had been deleted from my iPhone. This is absolutely not acceptable, and today I was a bit annoyed would be an understatement. These were all the CDs (that I had bought) I had moved into iTunes. I still own the original CDs.

So… when I get home I’ll see if I can resynch my phone with my library on my PC. I still have the files backed up and so that isn’t my concern.

My concern is why did this happen (that content was there last week), and how do I prevent it from happening again. To be honest, Apple has always had truly very buggy software; iTunes and Apple Music definitely fits into this category and it’s been very frustrating over the years having to fight the software. User experience? Sure.

Anyhoo, that’s about it. I just want to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Is there another application I could use other than Apple Music? I strongly suspect the music wouldn’t work with anything else anyway.

Thanks much.