The Apple Music Recently Played API appears to have changed its behavior on 2026-08-05/2026-08-06. The endpoint no longer reports songs that are saved in a user's library. This impacts music tracking applications that rely on this API to retrieve listening history.
Currently, tracks only appear in the Recently Played response when users stream them directly from the Apple Music catalog. If a user plays a song from their personal library, the playback is not reported by the endpoint and cannot be tracked.
This is a breaking change that significantly affects existing integrations, but we could not find any announcement in the release notes or updates to the documentation regarding this behavior change.
Could you please confirm whether this change is intentional? If so, we would appreciate updated documentation or guidance on how apps should handle tracking playback from a user's library.