Apple Music: 4 Steps to Reset Your ‘For You’ Suggestions

Are you losing it over how inaccurate Apple Music’s suggestions are being lately?

You’re not alone! Believe it or not, this issue is more common than you’d think, hundreds of users struggle with it daily.

It’s really frustrating not being able to fully enjoy your jamming sessions because Apple Music keeps recommending songs you don’t like.

Luckily, with the help of this article, you’ll learn different ways to solve this annoying situation.

These are 4 fixes to reset your Apple Music “For You” suggestions:

1. Organize your Apple Music library.
2. Use the “Love” and “Dislike” features.
3. Create a new profile.
4. Disable “Personalized Recommendations”.

Read on to get back to getting For You Suggestions.

#1 Organize Your Apple Music Library

Apple Music is one of the best music streaming services out there. It offers more than 90 million songs, high-quality audio, and personalized recommendations to its subscribers.

You can select your favorite genres and artists when you set up your profile for the first time, this way the app can suggest new playlists, songs, and albums.

Although the “For You” section can help you discover new music, it may be quite inaccurate.

Why? Simple. Apple Music’s algorithm delivers content that you liked when you created your profile. If your music taste has changed over the years, the app’s suggestions will be inaccurate.

For example, if you liked Classic Rock when you set up your profile for the first time, but now you’re more into Pop, Apple Music will still include Classic Rock in its suggestions.

Don’t worry, though, there are different ways to reset Apple Music’s “For You” suggestions.

The first tip you may want to try is organizing your music library.

If you’re like me, you probably have hundreds of songs in your music library that you don’t listen to anymore. Sadly, these may alter Apple Music’s algorithm, which may cause inaccurate suggestions.

You can easily organize your music library by deleting the tracks you don’t listen to anymore. To do it, you’ll just need to:

Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod:

1. Launch Apple Music.
2. Tap on “Library” at the bottom of your screen and look for the playlist, album, or song you want to delete.
3. Press and hold the item for two seconds and tap on “Remove” or “Delete From Library”
4. Tap on “Delete song” or “Delete from Library”

Windows PC:

1. Open iTunes.
2. Click on “Music” from the pop-up menu at the top left, then go to “Library”.
3. Select the songs you want to delete and click on the three dots icon.
4. Tap on “Delete from Library”, then click “Delete Song”

Tip: Once you’ve organized your music library, I recommend downloading your favorite songs, so you can listen to them offline and fully enjoy your Apple Music subscription.

#2 Use the “Love” and “Dislike” Features

Apple Music offers hundreds of features that you may not know of. One of them is its “Love” and “Dislike” option.

This fantastic feature helps Apple Music understand your music tastes and learn from them to shape future recommendations.

You can easily reset the “For You” suggestions by tapping on the “Like” and “Dislike” options whenever you’re listening to music.

To do it, you’ll just need to:

1. Launch Apple Music.
2. Select any songs or playlist.
3. Press and hold the item for two seconds (Or tap on the three dots icon next to the song title).
4. Tap on “Like” or “Suggest less like this”.

Tip: You can share the playlists and songs you love with your friends to stay connected.

#3 Create a New Profile

If you want to completely reset your “For You” section, you can delete your current profile and create a new one.

By selecting new music preferences, Apple Music will be able to suggest relevant content.

Before deleting your profile, please note that this action will completely remove your current music library after 90 days.

Follow this quick guide to delete your current profile:

1. Launch Apple Music and go to the “Listen Now” tab. Then, tap on your profile icon in the top-right corner of your screen.
2. Tap on “View Profile”.
3. Select “Edit”.
4. Tap on “Delete Profile”.
5. Fully close Apple Music by swiping upwards at the bottom of your screen and then swiping up again on the app.

Once you’ve completed the steps above, please make sure to set up a new profile. Follow these steps to do it:

1. Open Apple Music.
2. Tap on “Listen Now” located at the bottom of the screen.
3. Go to your profile icon in the top-right corner of your screen.
4. Choose “Set Up Profile”
5. Tap on “Get Started”
6. If you want, change your profile picture, then press “Continue to Find Contacts”
7. Select friends you’d like to follow.
8. Choose who can follow you, then select the playlists you want your friends to see.
9. Select your favorite genres and artists again.

If this fix didn’t do the trick, don’t worry. Keep reading to learn more about other ways to solve the problem.

#4 Disable “Personalized Recommendations”

The “Personalized Recommendations” feature allows Apple Music to learn from your streaming history and recommend new genres, songs, and artists.

If you want to completely stop Apple Music from suggesting music you don’t like, try disabling this feature.

You can easily do it by following this quick guide:

1. Make sure you have a strong Wi-Fi connection or turn on your cellular data.
2. Launch Apple Music.
3. Tap on “Listen Now” located at the bottom of the screen.
4. Go to your profile icon in the top right-hand corner of your screen.
5. Tap on “Account Settings”.
6. Toggle off the switch next to “Personalized Recommendations”.

If you’re an iOS user, please make sure that the “Listening History” option is turned off as well. To do it, you’ll just need to:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap on “Music”.
3. Turn off“Use Listening History”.

You can also ask Siri to do it for you. You’ll just need to say “Hey Siri, turn off Use Listening History”.

Please note that this action will hide the music played on your phone from “Recently Played” and “Replay Mixes”.

Conclusion

Listening to music should be fun and stress-free. I understand how frustrating it is to not be able to fully enjoy your jamming sessions because Apple Music keeps recommending songs and artists you’re not interested in.

Hopefully, with the help of this article, you’ll be able to get rid of this annoying problem in no time.

On several occasions, organizing your music library, using the “like” and “dislike” feature, and creating a new profile can fix the issue.

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