Siri suddenly cant find the music in my library

Last week, I used iTunes to add new music to my phone. Now, Siri cannot find specific songs when i ask.

For example, if i ask, “Siri, play Disease by Lady Gaga”, he replies “I couldn't find 'disease' by Lady Gaga in your Apple Music library.” Even though it is there and he has historically played it when ive asked

Ive restarted my phone twice, resynced my phone with my iTunes on my laptop and even deleted all my music on my phone and redownload it via iTunes

iPhone 15 Plus, iOS 18

Posted on Jun 28, 2025 10:10 AM

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Jun 28, 2025 10:14 AM in response to Wintersbeauty

It's like that sometimes. It may have not heard what you said and it's just like that. Sometimes, it works and sometimes it doesn't. Happens with mine too. It doesn't really understand what you say depending on how you say it. It may sound silly, but that's 1 reason why I don't use Siri anymore. It's just the plain fact that it doesn't work quite often when you ask it to pause, play, or resume music. I just get on my device and do what I need to do. I recommend that you wait it out. Let me know how it goes!


-techHelpzzz72

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Aug 12, 2025 8:02 AM in response to techHelpzzz72

How is the above even an answer? if the answer is "it's like that sometimes...then don't answer just to get points. For me it heard EXACTLY what I said because it repeated it to me...then played something completely different and not even in the same genre. It's gotten so bad I can not use the hompod by itself at all. it's only a speaker, not a smart speaker and I have had to disable Siri because she is incapable or following up on a request at a rate of 90%. really complete trash at this point. A bluetooth speaker using Siri on my phone works 70% better.

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Aug 12, 2025 9:30 AM in response to Jason Smith

Yeah; sometimes things get confused.


I haven’t had this happen with Music, though I have met similar tangles in Photos and Passwords.


There are some similar reports involving iOS 18.5.


Update to iOS 18.6 if not already, then shut off Apple Intelligence and Siri access and the rest into the Music app (Settings > Apps > Music > Apple Intelligence and Siri), restart the iPhone, re-enable all of the Apple Intelligence and Siri section including showing the app, give it all time to re-index, and try again.

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Siri suddenly cant find the music in my library

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