Apple Music issues after iOS 18 Update

Okay songs and playlist are, knock on wood, presently working… but opening music back up this morning, all album and playlist art seems to have disappeared

EDIT: correction: tracks from the iTunes Store/Apple Music appear to have retained theirs, but art for tracks sourced from other sources like my own CD collection are gone at the moment.

Hahaha your last sentence describes my mental state when dealing with this incredible song download and playlist adds lag perfectly! I spoke with tech support on Sat (09/28) and they said they aren't aware of any Music app issues since ios18 and I was like, "Check out this thread I have been commenting on and following then; it's a huge problem!"

Just updated to iOS 18.0.1 thinking all the Music app problems everyone and myself

have been experiencing since updating to 18 (huge download lag times, playlist

add timeouts, playing/forwarded songs taking forever) would solve all our

issues, and it didn't fix anything!!! What is going on?!

Just

updated to iOS 18.0.1 thinking all the Music app problems everyone and myself

have been experiencing since updating to 18 (huge download lag times, playlist

add timeouts, playing/forwarded songs taking forever) would solve all our

issues, and it didn't fix anything!!! What is going on?!

Yes, the apple music app has been extremely slow and laggy since updating to ios 18, today’s 18.0.1 update still did not fix the issue. I have been using the Jet Music Player (I purchased it to use fyi) instead and it seems to work without any lagging or freezing like the music app player. Hope apple can patch or fix this in the 18.1 update.

My issues were not as comprehensive as most here. Mostly around Homepod and playlists skipping and pausing unexpectedly etc. ive been rolling since 18.1 released and that issue at least has gone away.

It is 10-5-2024. After updating to OS 15 on my iMac, I have been having trouble with instant crashes when I try to drag a song from one playlist to another, so dragging a song in a single playlist. It's really ridiculous.

Another issue I've noticed is it sometimes forgets a song has been played and reverts Play Count to a previous value. I have a fair few audio books so in order to remember which chapter I'm up to I have a smart list showing tracks played less than X number of plays. A few times recently I've gone into the playlist and a few earlier chapters are appearing. In fact in the last few minutes I went into the playlist intending to set it playing when the current song by Peggy Lee finished and it was the correct chapter showing. Before the song currently playing finished Music crashed and when I opened it back up two earlier chapters were showing as the next to play from my audio book.

Hey all iOS 18.0.1 is out and it fixed some issue regarding

Performance Enhancements

Some iPhone models experienced performance issues due to memory allocation problems. The update addresses these issues, improving performance and stability across various devices.

Fixed slow downs and crashes for me.

Even before last update there’s something wrong in Apple Music especially the quality of the sound, if you compare Apple Music with YouTube just for example YouTube music will win hope they will fixed it soon cuz it’s a great app for music we can’t live without it:))

This happened to me twice with one song immediately after the update. It cut off exactly 1:13 at the end of the cut. The third time I played it directly (not in a playlist sequence) and it played through. This problem has not recurred for me. My primary complaint is how clunky the response is when I try to add a cut to a playlist, rendering that feature extremely annoying and verging on unusable. The other discouraging thing is - judging from this board - how long it took Apple to acknowledge that there is even a problem.

Another issue I've identified is that when I turned on my laptop it causes my iPhone to crash when playing music. This happened every time so yesterday I turned off Bluetooth on my laptop and now when I boot it up the phone no longer crashes (tried a few times). I think I'll try turning it back on and see what happens (will my phone start crashing again?), and then try telling my laptop to forget my phone, see what happens then (will it stop crashing?)

After updating to ios 18, had a couple of crashes but seems to be getting better. however, i cannot add songs to any playlist unless i edit the playlist and add them through search. at first i thought my playlist or library was too big but after clearing some room, it’s still a problem. i’ve been using apple music for about seven years and have never had a problem until now. any suggestions on how to fix this?