Apple Music Home Library Issue

The Apple Music home library is not working as it always has done previously and I am not sure if this is a bug issue or an enacted change and new expected behaviour. Now when you add a song to a playlist it shows each individual song in your library tab home screen. This is clearly unnecessary, superfluous and incredibly annoying. The whole point of a playlist is that you are categorising your music, as such, if I want to see that song I would go to that playlist which if the playlist has been recently created would always show in the library home anyway. Having every single song added into playlists now showing up on your library home only serves to dilute out recent playlists or albums that you have personally added to your music library and that you would like to easily access. It wouldn't be so bad if say you recently updated a playlist and the playlist as a whole got moved up on the home library screen but every song is such a terrible feature. This makes the user interface incredibly annoying and in my opinion no longer fit for purpose.


Is this an issue other people are having or is it likely a bug?

iPhone XS, iOS 17

Posted on Dec 1, 2023 09:03 AM

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Posted on Dec 1, 2023 10:18 AM

Thanks for pointing out that there is this option and it is a bug that is happening. I have spent quite a lot of time with apple support today who haven't managed to fix the issue and suggested it might be a new expected behaviour - glad to hear it is most likely a bug!


Ultimately, they suggested to report it via this link to enact any sort of change:

Feedback - Apple Music - Apple


I hope they can sort it soon otherwise it will be infuriating to delete the songs from the library just to add them to the playlists again to tidy up the library interface.



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Dec 1, 2023 10:18 AM in response to m_l_gabriel

Thanks for pointing out that there is this option and it is a bug that is happening. I have spent quite a lot of time with apple support today who haven't managed to fix the issue and suggested it might be a new expected behaviour - glad to hear it is most likely a bug!


Ultimately, they suggested to report it via this link to enact any sort of change:

Feedback - Apple Music - Apple


I hope they can sort it soon otherwise it will be infuriating to delete the songs from the library just to add them to the playlists again to tidy up the library interface.



Dec 1, 2023 09:50 AM in response to Music_123

Thank you for reporting this. I have the same issue. Usually, one can deactivate the 'double adding' of music in both your playlist(s) and your library in the app's settings under your device's general settings (under 'music'). But since today, the lever auto-switches to 'on' (i.e., gets green) whenever I leave my device settings app and add a song in the Apple Music app to any of my playlists. I therefore assume this is a bug.

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