Liked songs not syncing between devices

[PresqueVu]

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

iPhone 15 Pro/iPad Pro 3rd gen

Operating System

iOS 17.3/Windows 11

My Question or Issue

Liked songs are not syncing between the PC/Web apps and the iPhone/iPad apps.

Liked songs will sync between the PC and web apps.

Like songs will sync between the iPhone and iPad apps.

To test this I used an album where all the songs on the album were set to Liked.  This was the same on all the apps, PC, web, iPhone and iPad.  

I then removed the Liked status for all songs on the PC app.  This change was reflected in the web app but not the iPhone or iPad app.  

I cleared the cache for all apps which had no effect.

I uninstalled the app from the iPhone and then reinstalled it.  The songs on the iPhone were set to Liked.  I watched as the Liked song ticks came on for each song in the album.  This still did not reflect the Liked status on the PC app.

I removed the Liked status for one song on the iPhone app.  This was immediately reflected in the iPad app but not the PC or web apps.

Thanks,

Toby

[Eni]

Hey folks, 

Thanks for your replies. 

@dawmd, thanks for sending us this info! 

@GreenPixel173, make sure to send us all the info @MihailY requested above. We'd like to take a closer look. 

We'll be on the lookout for your replies. 

[Nightrocker70]

Highest of fives! That worked for me too 😉 Super stoked to fix that, was driving me crazy, much appreciated!

[whencehecame]

I have to do this daily.  This should not be the case, meaning this is an issue with Spotify.  They need to fix it.

[OwlPacino]

This worked a charm and is dead simple to do. Thanks!!!

[dawidcwikla1]

I add new tracks to my playlist on my phone, then open Spotify on my computer, and... BAM! The playlist still looks the same. I have to manually open it to get the update.

Why doesn't Spotify have an option to auto-refresh playlists on app launch? 🤔

Imagine if there was an "Refresh All Playlists" button in the settings – just one click and everything's synced up across all devices. So simple, yet so effective!

What do you think? Maybe if enough people agree, they might add it. 🚀

[xutragexus]

Thanks, that did it. I had tried re-downloading the app, updating, keeping Spotify open as a mobile app and nothing helped. But in the desktop app (Help - Troubleshooting - Reset app data and restart) everything worked.

[Laila00]

I am also having this problem and use an iPhone 15 with 9.0.28.607. I’ve tried going offline, restarting, playing from another device and then transferring to my iPhone. None of it works. Going to have to reinstall but then will lose all my downloads. 

[itfjoegun]

Hi community, I just want to report that I have the same issue. On my Samsung S22, my car and my 2 Ipads synchronization of „liked songs“ is always ok. But on my old iphone 8 it happens that the playlist is not synced. I mostly am missing songs on the iphone, which had been recently added on the Ipad. I tried to log on/off on the iphone, cleared cache, updated the app, stopped offline mode. Nothing helps. Normally days later if I look again, the songs appear. Is there not trigger to force the update locally? Thanks for you help, Jochen

[doonsie]

Hey guys also having the same issue, not sure when it started, I think this year? I know that doesn't narrow it down much.

I ended up being frustrated and just adding the songs to my 'Liked Songs' on the desktop app, but usually I add it on my mobile (Samsung S22 Ultra).

Desktop version: Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.59.514.g834e17d4

Mobile version: 9.0.28.630

On desktop I tried clearing cache and restarting, logging out + in, didn't seem to make a difference.

[doonsie]

Actually thought it was all up to date but noticed a discrepancy,

Desktop: 685 songs

Mobile: 682 songs

[ihatespotif_y]

I've had this issue on ALL devices except my Android app on my phone for months. It started in one of the updates a few months ago. It happens on Samsung watches, Google watches, Android car head units (all 4 cars with different units), Windows laptops and desktops, and pretty much anything that isn't a mobile phone. Spotify DOES NOT CARE about anything but money. Why is something ALWAYS broken?

YES, they are all up to date, YES I'm probably smarter than you at anything tech related, and YES, I've tried every basic step you'd possibly recommend which I shouldn't have had to try at all because this is 100% a bug from the update a few months back that's persistent. You know what does work though? Your garbage pop ups about things I don't care to see, and your broken shuffle that plays the SAME SONGS OVER AND OVER... those ALWAYS work. Cheers

[Maria]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for posting in this thread! 

As we've passed this on to our tech folks, we'd also like to share with you that the sync issues you're experiencing with Liked Songs should be fixed in a future app release 🙂

While we can't provide you with an exact timeframe, we recommend keeping the app up-to-date in the meantime. This is to ensure you get the latest fixes and features as soon as they're released. 

Feel free to let us know when you notice a difference in the app behavior.

Cheers!

[PurpleFan]

Plan

Premium

Country

Israel

Devices mini m1

Operating System

Latest macOS

My Question or Issue

I see some liked songs on my phone (iPhone) and online player but on Mac version it’s seems missing few of them.

tried logging out and in.

[Kai-kai]

Plan

Free/Premium

Country:United states

Device

(Samsung Galaxy s23 ultra, windows 11 gaming computer)

Operating System

( Android 14, Windows 11)

My Question or Issue

My Spotify on my phone liked songs will not show on my desktop. on my desktop im missing 100 of my liked songs when my phone shows the whole list. 

[aanders50]

Just wanted to update that my phone (Galaxy S22 Ultra) and PC (windows 11 spotify app) do seem to sync again however the issue still persists on my Galaxy Watch, I don't believe any liked songs from my phone or PC have updated on it for well over a month now.

[ImpurestFire]

This is still happening. Adding songs on android app and they won't show up on windows app. I shouldn't need to reinstall, re-log in to the app...

[Thaddeusii]

Logging in and out didn't work.

Using Connect seemed to finally get it to work but i have had it work and then lose it all over again and gain maybe a few months more in my library (it had my liked songs up to July previously).

[rybaosinski]

Same issue. Add songs on my phone, they don't show on Win11. To update the spotify playlist on PC I have to reinstall the app every time I want to see the new songs. If I used Spotify on windows more often, this would be an absolute dealbreaker. It's been happening to me for well over a year.

[uiygbiukhb]

i've tried every single solution repeatedly on this forum and nothing has worked it shouldn't be this hard to sync songs across devices and the devs are nothing but **bleep**ing **bleep** for not having solved this for over 6 years now

[itsluap]

still happening for me