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In recent weeks, many Apple Music subscribers have reported that the "Add Playlist Songs" setting is broken on the iPhone, iPad, and sometimes the Mac. After a user toggles off the setting, the bug can cause it to turn back on, resulting in any songs that a user adds to a playlist being added to their music library in an unwanted manner.

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Users have complained about this issue on the Apple Support Community, Reddit, MacRumors Forums, and X. While the complaints have increased since iOS 17.1.2 was released last week, the bug appears to affect many other software versions, leading some users to speculate that there might be a server-side problem for Apple to fix.

The issue has frustrated users, as removing an unwanted song from the library also removes the song from all playlists, and there is no way to change this behavior. The bug can repeat itself over and over again, and there is no lasting solution right now.

The underlying cause of the issue is unclear. We've reached out to Apple for comment, and we will update this article if we receive a response.

Article Link: Apple Music Users Experiencing Bug With 'Add Playlist Songs' Setting
 
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I don't know ... is it fair to say that bugs like that that are very obviously widespread AND noticeable to end-users ought to be fixed as soon as possible?

Over the years, I've encountered what seems to be certain widespread bugs that a large number of users notice, such a iCloud tab sync issues. That issue was not fixed for many, many iterations iOS and it was truly annoying leading me to stop relying on iCloud tabs.
 
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Apple keeps trying to push me to use their free “Apple Music” trial. Which I don’t want, but due to some bug it keeps last played music in the background. Heck, I even offloaded the app itself, and it reinstalled on its own, showing the last played music track back every time I open control centre. 🥶
 
I was browsing just now through my library, and noticed one album has the same song repeated three times. Literally for a regular edition, a deluxe album edition, and a single release. Same song, same length, no variations, just repeated 3 times within the same album.

Fun times.
 
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Bluetooth disconnecting from car system rendering impossible to have call in the car is a more pressing and safety bug that is not important enough for Macrumors?
 
Use Spotify. The don’t have to release a new OS version to patch. They had this feature many years ago. Really, I don’t see the value of Apple Music vs Spotify.
As a musician myself, the value is lossless audio, cloud library (so I can have songs that aren't available to stream in my library) and the fact that Apple pays artists 3x what Spotify does. If Spotify offered the ability to upload, say, my own recordings, to the cloud, and started paying artists, I would be willing to pay them my money.
 
Another day, another Apple Music bug. The only thing keeping me subscribed is Lossless and, to a certain extent, integration with the rest of the ecosystem. That will change the day YouTube Music adds lossless or Spotify adds proper integration (ok this one might never happen).

Apple Music is such a frustrating experience, can’t believe I’m actually paying for it.
 
if i weren’t so immersed in their ecosystem i would absolutely trade bug filled apple music for spotify. apple should thank their lucky stars they’ve built out the ecosystem they have, cuz there’s not much keeping me here otherwise.
 
As a musician myself, the value is lossless audio, cloud library (so I can have songs that aren't available to stream in my library) and the fact that Apple pays artists 3x what Spotify does. If Spotify offered the ability to upload, say, my own recordings, to the cloud, and started paying artists, I would be willing to pay them my money.
For a professional musician who can have all the required additional hardware to listen in lossless hi-fi fidelity, maybe there is some value. Personally, for me, being over 45 years old I truly can’t distinguish from lossless hi-do from lossy from Spotify. For the rest of world on Bluetooth there is no difference.
About Apple paying 3x time more recently it has been found that is not “so siempre as that”, not accurate. Give Spotify a try, I have tried Apple Music many times and the interface is so lacking in features and very hard to discover new music.
Spatial Audio is really nice though.
 
i wish adding songs to playlists didnt add the to my recents list…im constantly listening to new music and like my recents lists to be solid new albums to listen to, not one of songs i added to a Christmas playlist :rolleyes:
 
Outside of lossless, Apple Music cannot compete with Spotify. Once Spotify launches Spotify HiFi or Supremium, whatever they decide to call it, it's a wrap. I've used both platforms extensively and Spotify is the clear winner.
Siri control is the only thing keeping me on Apple Music. Being able to order up music by voice while I'm driving or have my hands in a sink full of dishes is handy!
 
My iPad 7 will not work with Apple Music since the past 2 updates! Apple - what are you doing??
 
Outside of lossless, Apple Music cannot compete with Spotify. Once Spotify launches Spotify HiFi or Supremium, whatever they decide to call it, it's a wrap. I've used both platforms extensively and Spotify is the clear winner.
Apparently Spotify cannot compete with Apple, with Spotify laying off 17% of its workforce because it can't consistently turn a profit after all these years. Over a half billion subscribers but only 2/5ths of them paid subscriptions. Certainly Apple has the ecosystem advantage but I am also hearing grumbles about Spotify from artists so it's more than the end-user experience that makes or breaks a company.
 
Apparently Spotify cannot compete with Apple, with Spotify laying off 17% of its workforce because it can't consistently turn a profit after all these years. Over a half billion subscribers but only 2/5ths of them paid subscriptions. Certainly Apple has the ecosystem advantage but I am also hearing grumbles about Spotify from artists so it's more than the end-user experience that makes or breaks a company.
Even if you only consider paid subscribers, Spotify still has more than twice the amount of paid subscribers Apple Music has.
 
Similar stuff has been going on all across iOS and iPad OS for years. Try toggling off iCloud storage for an app and then check again in a few hours, days, weeks or months. 50/50 it’s magically enabled itself again without any user input. Or disabling private IP on an older Apple Watch. Worse, try letting your Apple Music subscription lapse…and pray that your purchased iTunes music doesn’t get nuked.

This is just new Apple. It’s entirely normal now. There’s so many bugs and bad design choices that never get fixed, they may as well just be chalked up as features.

EDIT: Just checked, and yes, this bug is also present on both my iPhone and iPad running 16.7.2. No surprise.
 
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