Songs are disappearing from Apple Music playlists

Hey, I have a giant playlist on apple music, it was about 4000 songs and roughly 230+ hours long. Now over the past 3 days music keeps disappearing from the playlist. The songs aren't being removed form apple music, I can still play them if I find them in my library, but over 11 hours of music was removed from my playlist the last 3 days. Even yesterday, Nov 26th, I added 3 songs. All 3 were not in my playlist tonight, Nov 27th.


I have an iPhone 16 Pro, running IOS 26.1.


After double checking, this is happening in all my playlists, even in my favorites playlist.

iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 26

Posted on Nov 27, 2025 9:41 PM

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Posted on Nov 28, 2025 1:11 AM

Your songs disappearing from playlists is due to an iCloud Music sync bug in iOS 26.1. Turning Sync Library off/on, rebooting devices, and updating often resolves it. The songs are not deleted from Apple Music — only their playlist entries are affected.

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Songs are disappearing from Apple Music playlists

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