Hey all, hoping someone can help, because this is doing my head in 😩
Some time in the last week (between about 7 and 13 Oct), roughly 1,600+ songs disappeared from 14 of my playlists. Some examples:
- one playlist went from 281 songs to 8
- another from 449 to 27
- My Shazam Tracks went from 191 to 7
The pattern: the songs that vanished are all Apple Music streaming songs that I'd added to playlists but never added to my library. I have "Add Playlist Songs to Library" turned off on purpose. The songs that are actually in my library, plus my own uploaded/matched files, are all still there. So it looks like iCloud has basically wiped the "playlist-only" songs.
It's gone everywhere, not just one device:
- ❌ Mac (Music app)
- ❌ iPhone
- ❌ music.apple.com in the browser
Stuff I've already tried:
- ✅ Turned Sync Library OFF and back ON. Still missing on all devices.
- ✅ Restarted everything
- ✅ File ▸ Library ▸ Update Cloud Library on the Mac
- ✅ Recreated the playlists on the Mac. That didn't bring anything back, because the missing songs were already gone from the Mac's copy too.
- ✅ Tried re-importing them from Spotify with Playlisty. It created the playlists but only added songs already in my library, and threw a MusicKit 503 error for everything else.
Other things that might matter:
- My Mac was stuck uploading ~600 tracks to iCloud for about a day around the same time. It got there in the end.
- Mac on macOS [27.0.1 (26A434)], iPhone on iOS [27.0.1], Apple Music subscription, Sync Library on everywhere.
Has anyone had this and actually got their songs back? Or is there any way to get Apple to restore an older version of your cloud library? I've got the full track lists from a library backup, so I know exactly what's gone. It's just a LOT of songs to re-add by hand 😭 ( I know I can script it but this bug seems to have something more weird going on)
Cheers!