Music app UI issues after macOS Tahoe update

Apple Music is still, after two or three days, populating my up next feed with music of its own choosing. Usually albums that I have recently played. It wipes out what I have chosen to play when it does this. I then have to clear what it thinks I should listen to and choose what I want all over again. It's gotten very old. There are so many bugs I've come across and continue to find. iTunes is looking better and better.

The music app has seemingly gone rogue. I have many playlists. The app gives one the opportunity to add a photo, but this photo disappears on (just one, at this time)one of my playlists. I am able to add a photo, but it vanishes after a minute or so. I have tried a couple of different ones, but the result is the same. So I have ended up with the default one in the app. I hate stuff that does not work. I want to NOT be thinking so much about stuff that does not work. Anyone else?

The album artwork is not syncing to my iPhone. I have tried uninstalling the music app on my phone and reinstalling then resyncing all music, but only the music that I purchased in Itunes album art shows on the phone. All other album covers are still on the Macbook air. When I resync it shows that album artwork is being copied over on the progress bar but when finished syncing it is still absent on the phone. Is Apple not supporting any music that wasn't purchased in the Itunes store now?

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I have the exact same issue like you described in (1). it is so annoying. I have no idea which genius came up with this clever idea to bring you to the top of your song list while clicking a huge blank panel where it should have no function at all. Oh also who approved this idea.

I can live with the bugs. Music has been buggy since it replaced iTunes several years ago, but I stick with it because I can't live without the granular controls in Smart Playlists.

But the new UI — bugs completely aside — is a usability nightmare. The new control bar might (but only might) be OK for tiny MacBook screens, but hiding vital controls like Volume behind a click is a massive waste of screen real estate on a 27" Studio Display, and a waste of users' time.

I only bring up these gripes because I'm in search of workarounds that Apple seems to have disabled in Tahoe 26.1. Since the Terminal command for the old Music UI is gone, does anyone know of any software fixes? I'd been hoping that TinkerTool would have something, but no luck so far.

Anyway, good luck withe fixing those bugs! This user gave up a long time ago, because that's when Apple did, too.

Yes, with the macOS / iOS 26 updates, Apple has gone to great lengths to double or triple the number of clicks I need for my most common actions.

As a "tiny" 14" MacBook user, I can tell you there was plenty of screen real estate for the volume control. No need to hide it behind an additional click.

Does anybody have a fix for deleting a song from a playlist? I read several threads that said I needed to be in Playlist view to delete a song from a playlist. It didn't work. And then it didn't work some more. And then I looked at the dates on the threads. Early 2024! Grrrr. The only option I am presented with in Tahoe is removing the song from the library. WTH Apple? We are talking about the removal of the simple, elegant use of the delete key to remove a song from a playlist here.

Exactly! I have thousands invested in purchased songs and albums since iTunes began. 22 years of PURCHASING music and this is the state of the tool I'm supposed to do it with? You could buy a new turntable or CD player. What do we do with this?

If you do not let the intelligent playlist update automatically, you can add or remove titles like in any other playlist after it is composed automatically. However, there is a menu command to fill the playlist again according to the rules. So it is kind of a hybrid between a true intelligent playlist and a normal playlist.

A use case could be that you want an intelligent playlist containing your favorites least played. However you do not want to have more than one title by the same artist in the list. It is not possible to build rules for that. Therefore I remove titles from the same artist manually. Next day, I let the playlist update again.

i dont know what is going on =))) it's so terrible

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+1 Can reproduce by looking at the "Up Next queue":

Have seen elsewhere as well. Maybe a new feature of the Liquid (Gl)aass™?

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I just keep getting this

it stops playing, in between tracks, but still shows the pause button.

Did anyone test it or was it just rolled out, in a really buggy state?

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Yep, I get this all the time. It's basically impossible to play an album at the moment. Quite astonishing.

Frustratingly, when I click a song to play the next track coming somewhere else. Totally hating the Music app now!