Remove songs from playlist but not library

😂 no problem 🌸

True DAT!

tried to click on the arrow and I do not get that list.

Well done! This approach I would never have guessed, but it worked for me on my iPhone, and so far have not had to pay for a second time. Thanks!

So you transferred your entire iTunes library over to Spotify?

Doesn’t work. The minus sign no longer appears. there is no way to remove a song from the playlist via “Edit”.

There is no longer any “minus sign”.

I don’t think I have ever been this mad at Apple and if I find out that I have to pay to download this song again I will NEVER Download another song from Apple again.

I meant Playlist....

I went through a lot of conversations and help pages, but I found that you can hide/unhide music just like you can with apps. I don't know if you can fix it on your iPhone, but you can on a computer.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208167

I have no idea how to get these songs back or even begin to identify which songs were deleted. Infuriating. Anyone have any idea?

M5328 wrote:

I have no idea how to get these songs back now. When I go into the iTunes Store the affected songs show as “purchased” if I search for them in the store, but they don’t show under my purchased song list in the “more” section. I have no idea how to get these songs back or even begin to identify which songs were deleted. Infuriating. Anyone have any idea?

I don't know if you already found your answer, but I just went through a similar experience. It's really annoying that a simple swipe operation can seemingly nuke your purchased music.

The (hopefully good) news is that it may not be that bad after all. If you have iTunes on a PC or Mac try navigating to Account > View My Account...

Then scroll down to where it says Downloads and Purchases. Hit the Manage link that should be to the right. If all's well and good, you should see your missing music. Click the Unhide buttons to restore them.

Honestly, this whole thing is a lesson in bad UI and UX design. And it could at least, in part, be negated by changing the wording of the delete action to better represent what it's doing. Of course, that would require more coding and distinguishing purchased music. Far easier for everyone if Apple simply put the drastic Delete action behind the Three Dot menu and have the swipe action perform a context friendly action > remove from playlists within playlists, remove from device otherwise.

And for the love of my sanity, they could at least add a "Disable Delete from library" option if they can't be bothered to change the wording of its functionality to match the different use cases!