The Add to Playlist function is not working properly

[sweetcreature]

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

iPhone 16

Operating System

iOS 18.5

My Question or Issue

Note: For this issue/situation I'll refer to my playlist as 'Favs' and the other user's playlist as 'Tunes' so it's easier to follow.

When clicking the 'Add to Playlist' button (on iOS you press the three buttons next to a song/album/playlist and then click add to playlist), the songs aren't actually added to the playlist. I have tested this multiple times, and this issue happens on and off with no real pattern as to why. For example, just now I found another user's playlist I liked (Tunes), so I clicked *add to playlist*. When this feature is working, the tracks should all have a green arrow appear next to them or a green tick to indicate they have been added to your library. However, I noticed this didn't happen and so, I clicked on an individual track in the playlist and clicked *add to playlist* (for that track only) and sure enough, my playlist (Favs) did not include the track. I went back into the user's playlist (Tunes) and clicked *add to playlist* again. When selecting 'Favs' there was a pop up saying 'Already added to playlist'  with the prompts 'Add Anyway' or 'Skip Duplicates', despite there not being a tick next to my 'Favs' playlist indicating 'Tunes' was added to 'Favs'.

Sorry this is so wordy/hard to understand, I do have a video of it (split into 2 parts because of file size).

Please let me know if you have any questions 🙂

[Dessi]

Hi there @sweetcreature,

Thanks for reaching out and for the videos!

Have you tested if this happens across all your playlists or is it just with this specific one? It'd also be great if you can check on another device - a PC or a friend or relative's phone - just to make sure it's not device-related. 

Another thing that's worth trying is performing a clean reinstall of the app to make sure any damaged cache will be removed. You can also log out and back in a couple of times in a row afterwards to make sure everything's synced.

Keep us posted.

[TheMadoc]

Also having this issue recently on Spotify for Windows, and I think also Android but not 100% about that. Definitely happens with multiple playlists. The app will say "Added to playlist", but nothing is actually added. On rare occasion it does actually work. I can still add things to the playlists using the "add to playlist" menu function and selecting the playlist to add to. The "Add to this playlist" hardly ever works.