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Pay for music, don’t stay for music

What the actual F@CK! Why am I paying a monthly subscription for music that pretends to download but isn’t on my phone! I want to download music so I can actually listen to it! I DO NOT WANT TO THINK IM DOWNLOADING MUSIC ONLY TO FIND OUT ITS ACTUALLY IN SOME CLOUD! I do not live in the cloud, I can see it from here where I am grounded but I can’t frikken hear it!!!!

iPhone XR

Posted on Sep 12, 2019 8:01 PM

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Posted on Sep 13, 2019 12:18 AM

Ok calm down and try these steps:


Sign out of the iTunes Store and then sign back in.

In settings - Music - Turn off iCloud Music Library and then turn it back onand Turn on “Show Apple Music”


Check other settings:

Settings > Music > Optimize Storage and be sure the option to Optimize Storage is disabled - if you don’t want this 

  • Also check if you have enough storage space:

How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch 

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Sep 13, 2019 12:18 AM in response to BigSurBrendon

Ok calm down and try these steps:


Sign out of the iTunes Store and then sign back in.

In settings - Music - Turn off iCloud Music Library and then turn it back onand Turn on “Show Apple Music”


Check other settings:

Settings > Music > Optimize Storage and be sure the option to Optimize Storage is disabled - if you don’t want this 

  • Also check if you have enough storage space:

How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch 

Sep 16, 2019 12:24 PM in response to Vancouver22

OK OK! after 6 hours on two separate occasions I was able to download all the music again but burned through my Cell data AND my satellite internet data as well. I have tunes but no internet for awhile and if this happens again, some glitch decides to clean my music out (except for the same free U2 album) I may just throw this thing out the window! Why would anyone tell a person who is legitimately furious through zero fault of their own to calm down? More importantly, why would all my music mysteriously delete it's self? Oh wait, burning through data to retrieve what I've already payed for seems motivation enough to create such a glitch. Oh but I should calm down while I update right?

Pay for music, don’t stay for music

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