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Declan Jun 18, 2025

It seems #Apple is helpfully censoring your music collection now.

I have a carefully organised and saved (not always downloaded) Apple Music Library, but listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down I noticed “asshole” was being censored 🙃

The normal version of the album has been totally removed from the Apple Music catalogue, which also seems to have completely broken the iPhone's synced library so much the song titles are missing.

We're back to physical media or piracy having the best UX.

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Marius Jun 19, 2025

@True_Heresy it’s worse than that. They censor text that matches English swear words regardless of the locale/language. Example of Romanian “cum vad” (how I see) censored. Apple Music has been like that for ages. It seems that recently they started to censor locally too (see the empty screenshot).

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Žymantas

@paint @True_Heresy most likely you can thank track owners here, they are the ones who uploads and chooses which version to upload (censored or not), and sadly copyright owners can be different per country.