Recovering Apple Music playlists and library after reactivating subscription

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Recovering Apple Music playlists and library after reactivating subscription

I cannot see my previous playlists or music library after reactivating the subscription.

Please let me know if it’s possible to recover the library.

Thank you for your help!

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Original Title: I recently reactivated my Apple Music subscription after a short break (only about 4 days without an active subscription), but my playlists and music library did not return. переклали

iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Jul 24, 2025 01:05 PM

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Jul 24, 2025 01:30 PM in response to Vlad03

As far as I know, that's normal.

If you let an Apple Music subscription elapse, I believe that you lose

All offline listening copies of Apple Music "subscription" songs
All playlists containing Apple Music "subscription" songs
All synced "Sync Library" /"iCloud Library" songs – whether the originals were Apple Music subscription songs, or songs that you had purchased. E.g., if your Mac's library contained music from your own CDs, and you had synced it to your iPhone using "Sync Library", you'd lose the copies on the iPhone.

It would be nice if the playlists stayed around, and the entries for the subscription songs became "info only" until you reactivated the subscription, but that's apparently not the way it actually works.

You are not supposed to lose

Purchased music (e.g., music from your own CDs or from the iTunes Store)
Playlists containing only purchased music

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