Apple Music 12+

Apple Music is great! I had a problem and I posted a review about it and it was fixed very quickly. But there is one other thing I’ve been noticing; so, I have restrictions on my phone and it makes it so I can’t listen to songs labeled as explicit on the app, but there are some songs with curse words that I can listen to and others with just one curse word that I can’t, because they’re labeled as explicit. There’s also non explicit versions of some songs that originally had curse words in it where in the clean version it has the word replaced or muted. There are a lot of songs that I love but can’t listen to on Apple Music because of my restrictions, so I think there should be either a clean version of every explicit song or at least not label it as explicit if it has only one or two curse words in it. This would be very helpful, tysm! And thank you also for fixing my previous problem!

Shuffle mode does not shuffle. I have over 500 songs on one of my playlists—which I have been listening to for years—but the same twenty songs are repeated every time I shuffle. Why are many of my songs not being played at all? There’s a reason why I add each song to my playlist: I like them all! Is there an algorithm that causes this? If so, I have attempted to counteract it by clearing all histories. Also, none of the songs are on repeat mode, so this is not the problem. I am not sure what more to do; this is very frustrating, and I have talked to other users who share the same issue. Could there be an option to where every song must play, no matter how many times I shuffle, before being repeated? This may sound dumb because one would assume that I should merely stop pressing the Shuffle button and resume the last song played, but in order to access other Apple Music appliances and play other playlists, this is not plausible. Therefore, there should be a new button: Resume Shuffle!! This in addition to the already Shuffle button (so users can still mix things up), will create a much more enjoyable experience on Apple Music!! I am certain that other users will agree with me.

Latest update has taken a fine app and simply made it less user friendly. Among other issues, the main two problems are the complete loss of the scrubbing ability and the ‘previously played’ and ‘up next’ features of the app. The ability to scrub through songs has just been removed, replaced only with a volume slide bar which is about as unnecessary as it gets, I’d prefer a return to the old format here. For the playlist feature, when you press the song being played and the previously played and up next songs pop up, the top of that screen is too close the activation area for opening the notifications slide down page. The result is that whenever I’m attempting to close the playlist page by sliding it down, I open my notifications page - simply less user friendly. Please restore these features to their older formats and have a few more trial testers before releasing this sort of failed update.

Additionally, when I click the suggest less songs like this, the button should simultaneously function as a skip song button. Why would I ask the system to suggest less songs like that and continue listening to the song? Pandora had this figured a decade ago.