My songs are greyed out

My songs are greyed out on iPhone saying not available in my region but I can search them in Apple Music and play them and re download? But this is my entire library I have to many songs to re search them all and hit download. I do have Apple Music and have checked all my settings. Please help I am in the United States.

iPhone 12 mini

Posted on Nov 14, 2021 8:07 AM

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Nov 15, 2021 8:40 AM in response to Mheppner16

Greetings ,


Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Community. From your description, we understand your songs are grayed out in Apple Music. We’re happy to provide some info about that.


We see you came to us from the article related to this issue but we'd like to reiterate certain points that could be helpful or, at minimum, explain why this can happen:

“If a song isn't available in Apple Music


Some songs or albums might be grayed out because they're not currently available in Apple Music. Here are some reasons why:

  • Artists and content providers might release some songs from an album in advance, but not all of them. If you add the entire album to your library, the songs will become available as they're released.
  • Artists and content providers might change or remove music from the Apple Music catalog. Search Apple Music to see if that song is available under a different name or file. If it is, add the song to your library so it's no longer grayed out.
  • The song might not be available in your country or region and will appear in gray text when you search for it in Apple Music.
  • If an explicit song is grayed out, you might have restrictions turned on for your device. You can use Screen Time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or Screen Time on your Mac to turn off restrictions. You can also add the clean version from Apple Music to your library.”

If your songs are grayed out


Best regards.

Nov 15, 2021 10:10 AM in response to Jeff_W.

Thank you for giving this info, the problem is ALL my songs are available in Apple Music when I search them and let’s me download again but my entire Library of music is greyed out saying “not available in your region” after I did the most recent apple IOS update. Now I will have to go to Apple Music and RE-search every single song and re download and go delete the old one that’s greyed out even though it’s the same exact song and album and artist. I want to find a way to have them all not be grey so I won’t waste hours to re download and delete around 5000 songs that are on my phone.

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