Hundreds of songs missing from my playlist

A couple weeks ago, I spent hours adding hundreds of my favorite songs to a playlist on Apple Music. Today the playlist only has 15 songs in it!!! What happened? Can I get the missing songs back?!

iPhone X

Posted on Mar 28, 2023 03:05 PM

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Mar 31, 2023 01:24 PM in response to bkardon

Hi there bkardon,


We're happy to help with your missing songs in your playlist on Apple Music. We have some questions to narrow down what might have occurred, then will provide some troubleshooting steps to get started that could help.


  • Have you made any recent changes to your iPhone?
  • Are you an Apple Music subscriber with an active subscription?
  • Does your iPhone still have a stable network connection?


If you recently turned on Sync Library to sync with a Mac or PC, that could explain what occurred. We recommend walking through this guidance for help: If songs are missing from your music library after you turn on Sync Library - Apple Support


Search for the missing song on your computer
1. Search your Mac or PC for the missing song.
2. If you find the missing song, drag the song to the Apple Music app or iTunes.
3. In the Apple Music app or iTunes, choose File > Library > Update Cloud Library.


Go through those steps and the additional guidance in that article. Reply back with how it goes, or any other changes you recently made to your iPhone. We'll work through this together.


Best regards.

Apr 1, 2023 05:09 PM in response to bkardon

Very interesting. The exact thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. See my post "Purchased Songs Missing from a Playlist, But Still in Library


I spent several hours on the phone with Apple last week with 3 different advisors and none of them could figure it out. The issue has been referred to Engineering. I will post if and when I hear something.

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