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can';t remove music from ipad

Because of limited available memory (32 GB) on my iPad I want to remove all music tracks. There have been occasions I had to temporarily delete apps to do updates because of not enough space. 

In the iPad sync I unchecked all the music playlists and unchecked the box to sync all music. Nothing shows checked in the music sync window.

That resulted in some of the tracks not showing but there are still over 500 tracks listed (and playable) when I assumed there would be zero.

How do I purge the music just on the iPad (not iPhone)

iPad, iPadOS 14

Posted on Dec 9, 2020 4:25 PM

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Posted on Dec 9, 2020 5:35 PM

After following your suggestion I found opening Music still showed the tracks. I observed that each entry has the cloud symbol to download the item from the music store. Also there was zero storage for music.


I discovered that the tracks previously deleted in my sync were songs that did not come from the Apple store but uploads from my own CDs


Next going into setting/music I shut off show downloads, the listings in Music were now gone


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Dec 9, 2020 5:35 PM in response to Derryl S

After following your suggestion I found opening Music still showed the tracks. I observed that each entry has the cloud symbol to download the item from the music store. Also there was zero storage for music.


I discovered that the tracks previously deleted in my sync were songs that did not come from the Apple store but uploads from my own CDs


Next going into setting/music I shut off show downloads, the listings in Music were now gone


can';t remove music from ipad

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