Little cosmetic update with dark and tinted app icon for iOS 18

 The new version Smartplaylist 13.3.0 provides a dark and tinted app icon for iOS 18.

Just to say hello

Just to have a little update here: SmartPlaylist still works nicely in iOS 16.4.1.

... and iOS 17 ...

Enlarge artwork to copy the cover text (iOS 15)

With SmartPlaylist you can enlarge the cover artwork to large and full screen size - This makes it easier to use a nice new iOS 15 feature: Text recognition.

How to do it:

1. Enlarge and position the artwork in SmartPlaylist

2. Take a screenshot and open it right away

3. Crop the screenshot to the text, if needed

4. Tap the text recognition icon [=]

5. Select and copy the text you want

6. Paste the text to the app you want

See also How to bring the beautiful cover artwork to the front (wallpaper)

iOS 14.3 slows down search -- fixed in iOS 15

Installed iOS 14.3, now "Load list" takes ten times as long as before.

The problem is caused by some new bug in iOS:

[SDKPlayback] SYNC-WATCHDOG-1: Attempting to wake up the remote process

[SDKPlayback] SYNC-WATCHDOG-2: Tearing down connection

UPDATE: With iOS 15 the problem is gone.

Save result list from SmartPlaylist as normal playlist

Yes, finally, after ten years, I have found out how to save the result list from SmartPlaylist as a normal (non-smart) playlist in Music. There, you can rename it, play it, reorder titles, edit it, sync it, delete it.

You will get this feature with v13.2, in the list view options (upper right corner).

Each time you tap "Save as Music playlist" a new playlist is created with the (same) name (e.g.) "SmartPlaylist X - Name of your list" and description "Created: date/time".