4.77★ from 1,515,126 ratings · version 9.35 · 36 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars
Ads playing after every song
4of the 36 read·11%
Free tier plays ads constantly, even multiple back-to-back ads of 1-3 minutes between songs, making the app unusable.
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“Worst streaming music service — Plays an ad after. every. song. Who the hell wants that?? No one can even have a musical moment. Ad. After. Every. Song. B.S.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Too much commercials — They have too many commercial up to 4 back to back and its really irritating, and they are not no 30 sec commercial they be up to 3 minutes” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Terrible — You get a long ahhhh ad after ever damn song you play on this App. Might as well get Apple Music for the petty stuff they do, minute to three minute ads are wild. Will be deleting this app very soon and getting Apple music. Just waiting to save most of my playlists to pass over on Apple Music. I’m a welder and this bothers me a lot especially my helpers” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Household-based account restrictions
4of the 36 read·11%
App enforces household restrictions that cut off legitimate users and forces them to pay for multiple accounts.
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“WAS a good app — If YouTube thinks you’re in a different household as the account holder, whether you are or not, too bad. They’re going to cut you off & make you pay for two accounts.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Privacy issues — They track your location even when you don’t agree to it. I was on a family plan since 2016 and then they updated and now I can’t be on it anymore. Very dissatisfied after being a loyal customer for so long.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Premium sucks now? — Why would youtube change the family plan to all live in the same household? Money, usually. Youre expensive and we bought it to use your ONLY benefits: “no ads and YT music.” I just wanna watch free videos and listen to music with some benefits man…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
App very slow and crashes frequently
4of the 36 read·11%
Downloaded music takes over a minute to load, app crashes daily, and performance is inconsistent across devices.
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“Glitchy and SLOW — Switching over to Apple. Been here since 2017… takes over a minute for my downloaded music to come up. Crashes daily on me and once again takes FOREVER to get get to my downloaded music” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Playback not working — The playback just stopped at random time then app just crashed” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“Crashes often — This app crashes often, then works for a while, and then crashes more. Even restarting your phone doesnt do anything. Sometimes offline downloads just aren’t available offline. It’s more annoying than any other music app Ive ever used and my subscription won’t last for much longer” — ★★☆☆☆ · English
Missing or broken search and download features
4of the 36 read·11%
No search option on homepage, download button broken, and downloads not always accessible offline despite being stored.
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“No search option — fix your app YouTube music . There isn’t a search option on the homepage when you open the app so I can’t search for new songs” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Gets worse every month — Can't download. Fix the button! Garbage app.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“It works… that’s it — TLDR: The service itself is fine but the app is kinda trash. Only use if you already have YT Premium. Here’s what my morning looks like: Get in car, app takes forever to load my library (even when it’s all downloaded) because cellular in my neighborhood is trash low key. Finally loads my library and click on my downloaded playlist, it’s takes forever to load. Start playing the first song,…” — ★★☆☆☆ · English
Shuffle only plays the same small set of songs
3of the 36 read·8%
Shuffle function ignores most of library and repeatedly plays only 20 or so of thousands of liked songs.
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“Worse shuffle EVER — I’ve had this for a couple of years. I have Over 2k songs liked and the shuffle function only plays the same 20 or so songs. ABSOLUTE TRASH.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“Ur shuffle sucks — Why when you shuffle ur music u can’t skip a song it just restarts the whole playlist and it stops ur shuffle what is this are we in 2005 again” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Streaming — Every time without fail: If I play a song i'm not looking for a "mix" stop auto playing when i didn't ask for it. and you're not slick by hiding this feature on the "speed dial" function i wasn't born yesterday. fix it. i despise that you guys are constantly shoving down an algorithm at every moment. it's on par with irritating ads i want no part of. the fact that you can't block musicians or pages is…” — ★★☆☆☆ · English
Queue and playlists deleted unexpectedly
3of the 36 read·8%
App randomly deletes or corrupts user playlists and queue, duplicates songs, or adds unwanted songs to playlists.
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“Sick of it — There are lots of great things about YouTube music that I love but I am absolutely sick of it deleting my queue. I use it for work. My job involves driving so I always need music to listen to and I’m constantly changing what is in my queue and YouTube Music is constantly just deleting what I have in my queue and I noticed it is also been erasing things that I liked a long time ago. I’m sick of it. I keep…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Problems — Ive liked youtube music for a long time, but there is a new bug where songs just show up in your playslists for no reason, so if you spend a long time making special playlists by adding only the best too it, be prepared to find that the 8 songs you found over the 6 months year are completely burried inbetween 143 songs that kind of look familiar but otherwise were never supposed to be in there.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“Buggy Mess — This app, since moving over from Spotify, has duplicated and deleted my playlists at random. Since I don’t have a tool that makes categorizing my music easier, I’ve been doing it all manually. It’s only a dollar more per month than Spotify is, so it’s a good value and has a larger library. I’m still VERY angry that I was conned into deleting a playlist made for foreign music, so thanks a ton for that.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 36 most recent negative ones. Newest review 4 days ago (05.09.2026), last collected 2 days ago.
Britain
4.65★ from 96,055 ratings · version 9.35 · 31 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars
Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 31, and the threshold is twelve.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 31 most recent negative ones. Newest review 4 days ago (05.09.2026), last collected today.
France
4.62★ from 89,096 ratings · version 9.35 · 30 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars
Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 30, and the threshold is twelve.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 30 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (06.09.2026), last collected today.
Germany
4.57★ from 74,060 ratings · version 9.35
We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.