I can’t delete apple music documents and data?

I found the solution to this problem.

Step 1 - Erase all contents and settings

Step 2 - Setup manually, DO NOT sign into icloud. There is an option to setup later.

Step 3 - Erase apple music and any other apps that you wont use.

Step 4 - Sign into Icloud

Step 5 - Install Apple Music at your own risk, I never installed it back.

IOS 15.2

Apple music now only uses 163MB. Before the reset apple music was using 9GB.

My 32gb Ipad is using 9.2GB (iOS - 6.84GB, System Data - 1.95GB, the rest I guess are the apps installed)

I also have this issue. Removed all my downloads from Music, but left with over 7gb that will not delete. Tried deleting the Music app but it does not remove it entirely and the 7gb of data remains. A fix (other than to restore - no thanks, lots of other data to restore such as audiobooks when I do that) would be appreciated.

More manageable maybe for you. But why is there still 1.16 gb left? Maybe when you stream there is files that don’t delete. Prior to iOS 15 you could switch off your library in Settings->music. Not any more.

The 2GB data in your Music app could be the cache, old files or yet-to-be deleted files. There is no direct way to clear cache unless your system is completely full in storage.

If you are short in storage and these cached files are causing storage issues, the best way is to run a backup and restore.

I found a solution which works on my IPad.

I clicked onto the Apple music App in storage, to get to the page photographed in the screenshot, in the original post to this conversation. I waited 2 minutes for the specific data and documents within Apple Music to appear. You are then given the option underneath the 2 options already given, (Offload App or Delete App), to delete the actual data and documents themselves. Once you click this. It gets rid of the data and frees up your storage, for myself this was an extra 3GB. Then you can delete the App.

hope this helps.

If what @urbansmash says is true, those 30 sec downloads are entirely unnecessary and would be bad architecture/coding by Apple.

Just think about it, Music already today proves it can play songs quick and instantly even if 30 seconds of every song haven’t been stored locally on the device. This happens for ex. any time Music plays a radio station or infinity list, because those songs are determined dynamically.

Also, Spotify doesn’t do this so it cannot be technically necessary.

Thats what I thought. I found it under that Media directory and deleted all files in each folder. Ejected from imazing and restarted iPhone. No joy. Still have phantom data. Did you delete the contents or actual folders?

EDIT I had to do it multiple times. It kept on "filling up" strangely same amount of data. This time it worked. I now made a short cut to the directory.

Thanks for your help.

Sooo....not sure what's Apple's deal here. I decided to test some stuff out by deleting some Apple playlists from my library and see if any data decreases...nothing. So I added a song to my library, and data increased I believe 200MB. I was also just listening to random songs to see if data under Docs & Data changed and out of nowhere my data went from 9.31GB to 9.37GB. So it seems that just navigating through playlists and listening to music adds data for whatever reason. This is getting out of hand. As of my writing and moving through playlists/music, its now up to 9.38GB -_- So just using the app it stores data for whatever the use is. Frustrating that we don't know what this data actually consists of.

What apple did to apple music in ipados 15 is unacceptable. No music downloaded and 2GB of data. What is apple secretly downloading? I installed imazing to find out. Apple is downloading a whole lot of crap without my consent. I have purchased music from itunes and download it to my computer but not on my ipad. Used imazing to delete data in three folders on the ipad. I open imazing, click on ipad, file system, media, itunes control, itunes, artwork. Delete the data in cache and orginals. Then back up to itunes control folder and click on music folder. Delete everthing in that folder. Then disconnect ipad. Apple music app is now showing data in KB and app is about 30MB. This is fine until wifi is turned back on. Then apple music starts downloading data again and is now about 500MB. Not as bad as before but still annoying as I have not downloaded any music. I turn off wifi and connect ipad to computer and open imazing to delete this data again. Disconnect ipad and leave wifi off. Open itunes on computer and go to store purchased section. I hide all purchased music. Yes, I downloaded all music and copy to a NAS. I don't need to listen to the music from Apple music. I go back to the ipad and delete the apple music application. This should stop apple download crap to my ipad. So far it has, it is not using any space on ipad.

Try the method explained earlier in this thread. Using a 3rd party utility. imazing being one navigate to the folder on your iPhone and delete the folders. You might need to reboot the phone. But back up your phone before you do this.

Hiya folks,

Deleting and then reinstalling and again deleting did the trick for me, worth a try maybe. Freed up 40 gigs for me as I had downloaded Lossless.

Happy New Year in advance!

iOS 16.2 iPhone 12 mini 64GB

Deleted re-installed and deleted again. Many times. It still shows up on my new iPad under General > iPad Storage with 9.59 GB of data and nothing for the app. Because the app itself is gone. Insane.

I did everything. All it did when I redownloaded was download again, but it went from 9GB to 6GB after redownloading the app. Not sure what it’s downloading but I’m assuming the data of music library and playlists.

Unbelievable, after I deleted the app and used imazing to remove the phantom data and been at 7k of data for a couple of months. After this recent iOS update the phantom data os back 470 mb or so of data for a delete app that I never opened or d/l ed anything for it.

I redid the step with imazing and it didn't completely work. It did delete the phantom data and it was reflected in the usage of total storage. But individually it did not update the actual app reporting the data usage. I tried it twice and though the directories were empty the music app info was still reporting it was using approx 445 mb of space. I rebooted the phone, no change. Complete shut down and start up,still nothing. Only after synching and backing up to itunes did it finally report the proper size in the individual listing from 445mb to 1.5 mb. So I guess with the new iOS will have to sync and backup to itunes to fix all reporting numbers. What a pain.