I manually sync my music to my iPhone. I synced it all back and the album art is off on my phone but not on “music” on ny mac.
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Album art not syncing?
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Yes. Not sure whether it’s an iOS26 problem or a macOS26 problem (or both). I also manually sync all my music (on an MBP M1) to my iPhone. When I got my new 17PM, it copied over all the music (400+GB!) from my 14PM without issue, and it played fine in my car with CarPlay. But, when I plugged my new phone into my MBP (updated to macOS 26) just now and tried to add new music to it, nothing happened. I then discovered that all the music on my new phone was GONE. Not a huge problem, I thought—I could just start over and add music manually again. But, with the first few albums I added, all had the wrong cover art (from other albums in my collection). WTF, Apple???
UPDATE: I restarted my phone and the MBP hoping that whatever garbage in the cache would be cleared. Tried copying over several albums, and this time about 2/3 of them were fine. I deleted the bad ones and then re-added them one-by-one, which worked out just fine.
Well, after updating my 17PM and MBP M1 to 26.0.1, this issue is still not fixed. I just synced 2 albums to my phone and both showed the incorrect album art on the phone. 😡
Same issue. I went through a call with support and they had me create a new user on my Mac. With the new user the issue wasn't happening. I wasn't willing to go through the pain of migrating to a new user ID with no guarantee that this just wouldn't happen again.
Not fixed with iOS 26.2 beta 2. I added this info to my original feedback item.
I can confirm the same. I had performed a sync from iTunes to my iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 26.2 beta 2 per a new CD I had just ripped and worked over in Mp3tag as I normally do, high quality cover art having been embedded to each song. The album artwork would not show up on my iPhone. No issues within iTunes of course. Naturally I didn't take a couple minutes and go online to see if the issue was perhaps related to iOS 26.2 beta 2. Foolishly wiped out the songs on my iPhone removing the "Album Artwork/cache" folder for good measure prior to restarting my iPhone and Windows 11. Performed a fresh sync (10,291 songs) from iTunes and now zero cover art is being shown on my iPhone.
I just updated, and still no artwork, but I haven’t re-synced my phone since updating.
Same. Well, I did perform a sync in iTunes after updating iOS. On Step 4 of 4 it stated, "Syncing Artwork..." but still no dice. Restarted my iPhone for good measure. Still no dice. Turned "Sync Music" off in iTunes performing another sync removing all music from my iPhone. Turned "Sync Music (Entire music library)" back on syncing again. Looks like that did the trick. The artwork is showing up now for all songs (2605 of 10303) synced so far. 👍
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