Personalise Photos.app memories, music list is gone.

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Personalise Photos.app memories, music list is gone.

I regularly create memories in Photos app on Mac, however since updated to macOS 15.1, the personalisation of memories no longer allows me to select music that goes into the memory, it will simply assign a random music and that's it. I can click the music icon but only 1 track listed, nothing else.

Contacted Apple support, we have gone through the usuals such as reboot machine, safe mode boot, even reinstall macOS 15.1, nothing works. I have been trying to revert back to 15.0.1 but not sure why couldn't get it done. I'm hoping that the community has someone who is probably better than Apple in solving this issue. I'm suspecting Photos.app might be trying to contact Apple server to get a list of music tracks but somehow couldn't reach and ended up nothing showing up.

Machine details:

MacBook Pro 2019 (Intel i9, 32Gb, 1Tb with 400Gb free)

Photos library on external drive (APFS, 2Tb, 800Gb free)

macOS Sequoia 15.1

At least might be helpful if someone could guide me how to reinstall 15.0, I have the InstallAssistant.pkg

MacBook Pro 15″

Posted on Nov 17, 2024 1:55 PM

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lkshean Author

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Nov 18, 2024 12:40 AM in response to lkshean

Just spent hours setting up macOS 15.0 and finally able to dual-boot 15.0 and 15.1, the Photos.app on 15.0 works well without the above issue, I guess this confirms 15.1 is the culprit, could very well only impacted Intel Macs and not M-series Macs. Also I am unable to open Photos.app from 15.0 in 15.1 environment, could have been much easier job if the app would just work and don't need to switch back to 15.0.

Now have to spend more hours recovering photo library and the rest, Photos.app on 15.0 cannot open 15.1 library, very slow recovery of old library from Time Machine but I think it should work.

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