Apple Music app weird UI issues and glitches.

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Apple Music app weird UI issues and glitches.

Please see screenshots attached. Concerning local library files. This is while using 'search'. It does not happen when navigating to albums directly.

Also: after using the music app for a couple of minutes, app behaviour gets weird. Scrolling doesn't work, opening an album doesn't work, ..

Separate issue: syncing to iPhone 13 mini on iOS 26.1 does not go as expected: albums show correctly (ignoring above glitches) on the mac but on the iPhone it's as if 'album is a compilation of songs by different artists' gets undone, and all songs of a compilation become individual albums again.

M4 Pro MacBook Pro 14" on Tahoe 26.1

Example 1: song numbering gets aligned to the middle of the song

Example 2: normal behaviour at first

Example 2b: going back to albums - songs disappear

Example 3: Jackie Brown on the mac - one album

Example 3b: Jackie Brown on the iPhone - three albums

All ideas are welcome. I already tried deleting music cache and rebooting.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.1

Posted on Dec 9, 2025 4:49 AM

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azaksalmarzur28

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Dec 10, 2025 11:40 PM in response to _MacBookPro_

Rebuild Music Library Cache Completely

You deleted cache, but 26.1 requires full deletion, not the standard hidden folder.

Do this:

Quit Music
Go to Finder → Go → Go to Folder and enter:


~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Music
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Music
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Music.plist

Delete all these folders/files
Restart Mac
Relaunch Music (it rebuilds the UI and metadata cache)

This fixes UI rendering issues for many users.

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