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Bizarre change to the iPhone music app in IOS 10
pfgpowell
31-10-2016
I know it’s pretty close to heresy for some to criticise Apple, but you do sometimes have to ask where their heads are.

When I play my music on my iPhone (through the car radio speakers on a four-hour long twice weekly commute), I simply choose a song at random and shuffle. That means I get an ad hoc playlist of a huge variety of very different music. It also means that I haven’t really being looking very closely at the music app with comes with IOS 10. But now I have and I’m baffled.

Look up artists, and they are listed alphabetically. Look up songs and they are listed – under the relevant artist alphabetically. Look up an album and it is listed – under the relevant artist alphabetically. It makes no sense. I was just now trying to find a particular song but I couldn’t find it as the songs aren’t listed alphabetically. I then realised that I had to look for the artist’s name’s first letter bin the vertical list of letters on the right.

What is the point of that? In previous versions of the app, songs albums and artists were all listed alphabetically, so why did they change it? Yes, you can search for a song or album by title, but it’s more intuitive just to go for the list.
d123
31-10-2016
You've lost me, Albums, songs, artists are still listed alphabetically for me...
jo_m1
31-10-2016
Unfortunately the whole iOS 10 music app is bizarre.
Gigabit
31-10-2016
The iOS 10 Music app is absolutely terrible.
Heanor_Man31
01-11-2016
How are your Music settings configured under:

Settings>Music>Library?

Mine's toggled to 'By Artist' under 'Sort Songs & Albums'.

From MacRumors in relation to iOS 10.2: There's a new option to sort playlists in Apple Music by type, title, and recently added. There are also new options for sorting songs and albums by title or artist.

So it looks like future updates should make it slightly more intuitive.
calico_pie
03-11-2016
This happens a lot - people complain about something in Apple Music, rather than see if its something they can change somehow.

I don't see what the problem with it is - I use it a lot out walking.

One tap to open the app.

From the library screen, I can tap on artists or playlists.

I can easily find the artist / album playlist I want to list to.

I tap play.

Maybe I'm some sort of genius not to find this confusing.
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