YouTube Playlists Keep Disappearing or Hitting Size Limits
Users are experiencing significant and frustrating issues with YouTube playlists – disappearing playlists, inability to add videos, unexpected content appearing, playback glitches, and limitations on saving/deleting. These problems disrupt music listening, content organization, and overall platform usability, impacting both creators and viewers.
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“Okay, this is a simple-seeming question but I haven't seen an answer -- when playing a shared playlist, can you remove upcoming songs so they're no longer queued? Can you do that even when shuffling? Or do you have to manually put just the songs…”
Delete the app and reinstall it, unfortunately not much you can do
“I've been happy with organizing the shorts I save to their respective Playlists. Why on earth would I want ALL the shorts I save to be grouped TOGETHER??? I'm happy with the new button!! I just wish I didn't automatically save them to this new, useless, unorganized, unneeded Playlist. Why can't the button work like it does for any long-form video?? Why would anyone want this?? WHO IS THIS FOR?? Why would anyone think "oh I really want to watch my extremely long, unorganized”
“This is so maddening. Why?! Why?! Why?! submitted by /u/Commercial-Today-824 [link] [comments]”
“Anybody else notice a bug where the Playlist you time organizing randomly resetting to a different order for no reason? submitted by /u/Trivator0517 [link] [comments]”
“Possible workaround: Chrome / Chromium / Edge: YouTube Playlist Reverser – adds a reverse button directly to playlists. Playlist Sorter for YouTube – can reverse the list and also sort by date/title. Firefox: Playlist Utils – supports reverse order, oldest/newest first, and autoplay follows the selected order. Reverse YouTube Playlists – simpler add-on focused specifically on reversing playlist order. Edge can also use Chrome Web Store extensions, since it’s Chromium-based. So for now, browser e”
“I think they changed it, and while I CAN reorder my playlists, the button is just so small and hard to get to that it's nearly impossible. Really dumb.”
“YouTube playlists desperately need a simple option to reverse the playback order. Many creators organize episodic content with the newest video at the top of the playlist. This is perfectly reasonable for browsing, but it makes sequential playback backwards: Episode 5 → 4 → 3 → 2 → 1. The playlist player already has buttons for Repeat and Shuffle, yet there is no simple way to switch between ascending and descending playlist order. For series, tutorials, courses, Let’s Plays, podcasts, documenta”
“Every time I add a short to a playlist it puts it in an auto generated "Saved Shorts" playlist..... Why would you do that YouTube You don't give me an auto generated playlist for "saved videos" and why? Well because that would be dumb and all videos are different and I'm saving them for different reasons and purposes not just because they're videos. Right? WELL THEN WHY DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT WHEN IT'S ABOUT SHORTS!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? No matter how many short”
“Even after recently using the playlist and adding videos to it, it still gets pushed to the very bottom submitted by /u/Tobias-Tawanda [link] [comments]”
“"Try reloading the page" error upon installing. Seems like last update was 5 months ago; safe to say this is outdated?”
“Where have they gone? Saved later and Favorites, there was an amount for every album, anyone else? submitted by /u/Brilliant_Snow_2141 [link] [comments]”
“Description I tried downloading my liked songs playlist, and at the bottom it says 0/178 songs downloaded, 178 failed. a folder comes up in my downloads but when i unzip it and try to play the media it says no media is available. Reproduction steps Expected Behavior I expected the downloads to start and each song to be in my media files Screenshots <img width="2533" height="1355" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/95675c78 db17 4164 ad9f c4a1c6a94ae4" / Logs (Desktop onl”
“TL;DR: YouTube’s playlist management is painfully inefficient, especially at scale. After moving from Spotify to YouTube Music with TuneMyMusic (Google offered this as a free service for premium users), I ended up with 500+ playlists and discovered there’s basically no good way to bulk organize, sort, merge, search, or clean them up. YouTube seriously needs a proper Playlist Manager. Is anyone else frustrated by how limited and inefficient YouTube playlist management is? YouTube has been around”
“i was wondering if there is a good 3rd party playlist editor. I'm not the biggest fan of the yt ui. Something that kinda looks like Windows file explorer. Any help is appreciated. submitted by /u/weremybattleaxe [link] [comments]”
“Any form of playlist will not advance to the next video. The first video or whichever you play will either loop or stop after its done. This is very annoying as its making playlists functionally useless on the app. Second post about this at it is still a problem. Anyone else with this issue? submitted by /u/Saku-aku [link] [comments]”
“For ages now, when I move a video in my watch later list, it'll just jump back to its original position. I've cleared cache/cookies, tested my installed extensions etc but no luck. Is it just me? I can't rely on only using the app on my phone and besides, half the time the rearrange option just disappears for a while on the app - the three lines on the left just don't show!?) submitted by /u/herrmione [link] [comments]”
“Before submitting [x] I searched open and closed issues and did not find an existing report for this problem. [x] I tested the latest official Levyra release, or I clearly explain below why I could not. [x] I removed passwords, tokens, private URLs, and other sensitive information from logs and screenshots. Platform Android Affected area Library, playlists, or history Problem description There doesn't seem to be any way to remove an individual song from a playlist that I created myself. Steps to”
“Your suggestion is working so far. I was able to avoid it repudating on the s23 but not the note 10 lite although the process of deleting updates and reinstalling seems, temporarily at least, to have worked. I'll keep you updated on how long it works for.”
“Thank goodness they changed it back to how it used to be! I remember when YouTube rolled out that horrible update that changed how you added videos to a playlist. The window that pops up which allowed you to select which playlist to add the video to, would close out each time you added a video which made adding a video to multiple different playlists a pain since you had to go back and click on the "add video to playlist" button each time. Just recently went to add videos to a playlist”
“I like to listen to playlists of YouTube shorts when I go to sleep. My current go-to is Matt Storer's "originals" but I don't want to be picky about genre so it's fine if it's not comedy. Google has been worthless for trying to find something like this so I was hoping someone could share what they use if they do the same. submitted by /u/Magmamaster8 [link] [comments]”
“So as the title suggests, they have once again changed something on the mobile app that makes zero sense and has made it impossible for me to find all the randomly made music playlists I used all the time. In the image I added, there used to be other tabs such as Music, Games, sometimes a random game you searched up a lot or watched a lot recently, etc. but now these are completely gone, and replaced with the subscriptions tab being there now instead, so much also makes the bottom now uneven wit”
“idk if this specific question had been asked before. but now youtube forces your saved playlists to be sorted by your recently added saved playlists and it’s annoying. it’s difficult for me because i saved a bunch of old cartoons and i would usually find them in alphabetical order. sorting it by the most recently added makes it difficult to find the show i want to watch submitted by /u/elitelucrecia [link] [comments]”
“Not sure if it’s a bug from an update or someone at YouTube is dumb enough to implement this as a feature but saving videos to playlists is horrible now. So I have 8+ main playlists I use. One for work, one for lighter content, music, horror, etc. And I like to pick which playlist I’m saving a video to so I can watch it later. However YouTube released an update a few weeks/months back and now as soon as you hit save it automatically saves it to whatever playlist you saved to last. Of course not”
“Youtube keeps making the watch later list harder and harder to find. submitted by /u/ricorgbldr [link] [comments]”
“mine been doing same thing since yesterday, driving me crazy. the skip button just disappear sometimes like what the hell”
“Anyone else having problems? Any playlists I open loop the first video instead of moving onto the next. Sometimes the skip button isnt even there. Just started happening randomly. submitted by /u/Saku-aku [link] [comments]”
“What happens Under Playlists the sidebar shows: Showing cached data. Spotify denied access to this resou… The message is clipped mid word by the sidebar width. There is no tooltip, no wrap, no disclosure, and no way to read the rest or find out what to do about it. Observed in a Debug build of main (f0afb7e), signed in, sidebar at its default width. Why it is wrong This is the app's only signal that the library is stale and that a Spotify request was refused — i.e. exactly the message a user nee”
“Seriously I thought the app was bugged and my playlist disappeared when I minimized it. submitted by /u/Mhorts [link] [comments]”
“When I pull my playlist down it makes this stupid button which is hard to press and it gets annoying quickly. Anyway to get rid of it? submitted by /u/Unlucky-Roll-1810 [link] [comments]”
“Noticed it with the recent app update, I’d play a few songs and move on to another video. When i play the first song in the playlist again, somehow the next song it plays is wherever it left off. Wtf??? submitted by /u/thatlogolooksalien [link] [comments]”
“I have a lot of music playlists on Youtube music and I HATE that they’re visible on Youtube app as well. My Youtube library is a mess because of it. Is there a way I can hide my Youtube music playlists from Youtube? This is making me consider giving up on Youtube premium entirely. submitted by /u/thereatall [link] [comments]”
“Gota say, it is extremely annoying to see things removed without notification. Is there some log to catch name of what was removed? Or is it as stupid as needing to run some external backup stuff? submitted by /u/Lurkoner [link] [comments]”
“So i have created a playlist which i sorted manually but whenever i open it a day or two later, i find the videos being shuffled. And i dont mean im starting the playlist in shuffle but just whenever i open the playlist itself. The sort is set to manual so i dont get the reason why this happening. submitted by /u/Ok-Ball-9337 [link] [comments]”
“Describe the feature you'd like to request I would like to be able to find other seasons and episodes of shows like pokemon in the playlist in Smarttube. Describe the solution you'd like More sorting Describe alternatives you've considered I don't have any alternatives. Additional information The feature would be spectacular.”
“I have alot of videos that I wanna watch, about 700+ as you see and half of them aren't even watched. some interesting ones also pop up on my fyp, then put them in my *watch later* but I end up not watching them, now and I want to watch them but something else interesting pops up on my fyp. was just wondering if does anyone else experience this. https://preview.redd.it/anl8dwfnpplh1.png?width=1557&format=png&auto=webp&s=58d91da7630a0df92af5854676e1de078197c194 submitted by”
If you have thousands of videos saved to YouTube Watch Later, finding that one video that you saved long time ago can be a pain. You might want to watch some vlogs…
“THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW!!! I APPRECIATE YOU!!! I just checked mine and mine is also fixed YAYY LOL”
“I hate this, I had two songs on my playlist that I loved, but now I can't listen to them anymore because they're under this type of new visibility..”
“I am trying to see about turning my playlist into a show like it was newly presented... How can I do this??? I've tried the method I was told in the showcase video about turning playlist into a series/show/seasons and I got nothing... How do I do this? submitted by /u/Gabsmer [link] [comments]”
“My youtube playlist on my phone (iPhone) is having a glitch. I can’t scroll past 20 video… does anybody else have the same problem on iPhone? submitted by /u/kim8yaa [link] [comments]”
“Something is not right here, after passing the first 20 videos of any playlist on the YouTube mobile app on my phone, it just ends, this pissed me off to death. Who did this? And this might be a major bug or something. Is anyone else having that issue like this? submitted by /u/BigBoi608 [link] [comments]”
“My YouTube playlist suddenly stopped automatically playing the next video. It worked fine until video #297 , then it just stops. I've tried refreshing, incognito, and making sure Autoplay is enabled. Video #298 plays normally when clicked manually. But then it stops autoplaying again. So it seems I have to keep clicking from now on. The playlist has around 500 videos. Has anyone experienced this or found a fix? Edit - It fixed after i enabled the loop option for the playlist. This issue was”
“For some reason whenever I try scrolling on my longer playlists like my music one it stops after the first 20. It’s really annoying when I’m trying to find a specific song. Is it just me or are other people experiencing this? submitted by /u/Own_Garden1396 [link] [comments]”
“I’ve had this issue for a while. I’ll be listening to a playlist, I’ve pressed the loop button, but when it gets to the last song/video, it just repeats that one over and over again, instead of restarting the playlist from the beginning. This happens both on the app and in background (on youtube premium). It fixes itself if I press a different video, but still annoying. submitted by /u/alexanthic [link] [comments]”
“The way that you organize videos on a playlist just move it once you’ll be able to scroll”
“so the playlists on my YouTube aren’t working so is there a way to fix it? submitted by /u/Flat-Relation2461 [link] [comments]”
“I have a problem. I used to be able to listen and organize my playlists, but the main page of it moves some of my videos around. They are available videos, but either Youtube does not let me see them or I have to press oldest to newest to find the missing ones. Is there a way to fix this? The only way I can classify this is as a bug or glitch issue. submitted by /u/Reasonable_Leek8069 [link] [comments]”
“Support says to use Standard YouTube TV app but I am using Standard YouTube TV app not a Youtube Music one! submitted by /u/brzoza13 [link] [comments]”
“Anyone else has a playlist with tons of videos you can’t scroll all the way to the bottom through? submitted by /u/DiscipleofDestoroyah [link] [comments]”
“I hope this is just a bug that’ll be fixed soon or just for me and it’ll get sorted by tomorrow. Basically I’m my likes I scrolled down and was met with like resistance, however I could see videos still further down (it just wouldn’t let me scroll further down), and suddenly they disappear (Like shown in the pics). I thought it was a bug just for my likes but turns out it happens in all of my playlists. There’s a small hack which is to click on any video which will automatically open your like p”
“So today I noticed that the YT app wouldn’t load all the videos in my playlists. Upon using Google, I learned that this is apparently a common problem on mobile for a little while now and YouTube is apparently not doing anything about it. I discovered this trick and thought I’d post it here in case it could help anyone else! So, open the playlist you want then scroll to the bottom of the vids it’s loaded. Then, change the orientation of your device (like if you’re using it vertical, go horizonta”
“So I have Brewstews' Brewstew Flashtastics playlist saved. He added a new video sometime yesterday, and the playlist bugged out on me and was just called Private New Episode ONLY on my app and only had that video. I went on my computer and compared it to realize it was the Brewstew Flashtastics playlist I saved, and when I deleted it, the Private New Episode playlist was gone submitted by /u/ArcTheCurve [link] [comments]”