With the release of , Apple added a new “Favorites” feature for Apple Music. on this with the addition of a new “Favorites” playlist and the ability to have songs automatically added to your library when you favorite them. The latter change, however, has proven to be controversial among a lot of iPhone users, but luckily Apple makes it easy to disable. In iOS 17.2, any song you mark as a “Favorite” in Apple Music will automatically be added to your Music library. While this setting appears to be enabled by default, Apple has also added a dedicated toggle for it in the Settings app. When you disable this toggle, you can “Favorite” songs in Apple Music without those songs automatically being added to your Library. Those songs are, however, still added to the automatically-generated “Favorites” playlist in iOS 17.2. 9to5Mac’s Take When I posted about , it got a lot more attention than I expected. Unsurprisingly, people don’t like when songs are added to their Music library without their deliberate approval. As some of the responses to my post point out, this also underscores one of the problems with Apple’s practice of putting settings for apps like Apple Music in the Settings app rather than inside the Music app itself. : , , , and .
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