Now I genuienly wonder if my partner's "Music I'm being railed to" playlist appeared on somebody else's iPhone.
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Apple Music Users Report Seeing Other People's Playlists in Their Libraries
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User: this is not my music playlist
Apple: you’re listening to your music wrong
Apple: you’re listening to your music wrong
iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted by default. You have to manually turn on Advanced Data Protection to have all your iCloud data end-to-end encrypted, and even that was only available just recently and in a select number of countries.
The hilarious thing is that I actually *DID* see a U2-only playlist yesterday.
I also saw a lot of just silly stuff:
"Seggsytime"
"Ahhhhh"
And the like. I just assumed my son did something he shouldn't have. LOL
Classic Apple Music. Spotify is superior in almost every way, which is why I switched. They give you a better student discount package as well.
I guess people experiencing this have one of the following things happening:
- They are sharing their iCloud account with someone else
- They sold an iPhone and didn't unlink it properly from iCloud
- They are using some third party app that has access to the music library, and said app was breached and/or just screwed up
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I was experiencing this. My anecdotal response to your points is:
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- No
- No
- and No
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I just checked. I was hoping to see some unusual stuff so I could criticize Apple and their development team and management team up and down the line...but alas all I saw was U2. (which really is enough to heap loads of every type of criticism imaginable on Apple)
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With this new feature, your parter is my partner... and 271 others too (today)... 1622 tomorrow... and so on.
True, but it undermines our confidence in the other cloud services.
I don’t subscribe to Apple Music, but I do pay for iTunes Match, solely to allow mgmt of my Apple Watch workout playlists from my iPad.
Yes, sorry for being too brief. I edited my original post.
I experienced this and none of your points applied to my situation. Maybe the solution is much simpler? Something went wrong on Apples side? Occam's Razor is seldom wrong.
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I waited all the way to the end for pictures of ramen? I demand new story with the proper ending.
1. Nope. I mean, my son and wife are on my plan and sharing benefits, but my wife didn't make it and my 14-year-old son BETTER NOT have made a 'Seggsytime' playlist.
2. Nope.
3. Nope.
Nothing. But it makes one wonder. Where is the root of the problem? If this can happen to your playlists, can it happen to other data too?
A very nice chap from Nigeria offered me a huge inheritance if I gave him my Apple ID password
Seems legit
Seems legit
I’ve had this happen to me a few times over the last year. Random songs I would never listen to keep showing up in my library. And no, I’m not sharing an Apple ID. It just randomly happens
Goood mornnnaang! Apple now introduces Apple Music random playlist sharing, every morning when you wake up and start Apple music, you will discover new playlists from random strangers. This is an exciting new way to discover new music, we think you're gonna love it.
I reckon this is one notch less severe than seeing other people's photos in iCloud library, but very disturbing nonetheless.
Apple wants to roll out headsets but can't even provide the right playlists for Apple music! Another embarrassing blunder which has become the new normal.