iOS 18.1 still has some major Apple Music issues that were also in 18.0x
Music app is still very slow when you try to add a song
to a playlist. When it brings up the list of your playlists, it can take a long
time to show the icons next to each playlist, or to show if a song is already
in a playlist, like its struggling loading them. When you add a song, it can
take a long time to actually add it.
It also heavily drains the iPhone battery when its struggling
with playlists like this. I can lose 10% battery after playing and adding 4
songs to playlists.
Random in personal playlists is broken too. Sometimes
when I hit random its fine for a while, then it starts to play only specific
artists, or starts playing in order of artists. Or it might just play songs in the
order they were added even after you hit shuffle. I have to kill the Music app
and relaunch to get back to random, but that only lasts for a little while before
the issues return.
When playing music from iPhone to my Homepods, about
every 20 songs it will play but no sound unless I rewind or skip to the next
song. Otherwise it will just silently play the entire song and start working again
on the next song (this has been an issue with Homepod versions 18.0 and 18.1)
At least the Music app crashing issue from 18.0x seems to
be fixed, at least for me.
I’m using an iPhone 14 Pro
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18