How to prevent Apple Music from automatically expanding playlist folders?

Every time I launch the Apple Music app it automatically expands all my playlist folders on its own.

How do I disable this behavior?


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Original Title: Music Auto-expanding Folders

Mac mini, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 23, 2025 9:23 AM

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Oct 6, 2025 5:06 PM in response to mmhsn

Let's all comment on apple.com/feedback to stop this. It is causing great pain when finding my smart playlist. Because of the limitation on fields I have to create many small smart playlists. I'm an internet broadcaster and the software that I use works with the apple api into are library. I must have close to 100 or more playlists.

Nov 7, 2025 12:52 PM in response to mmhsn

Me too, im a dj and every week i make new playlists, this is driving me absolutely bonkers! Everytime i close the folders and do something they all open again making it near impossible to navigate to my playlist folders without having to scroll thru all my other playlists. @apple please let us manage and open our own folders. The whole reason for folders is having a simple workflow, having them all open defeats the purpose of having folders in the first place.


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