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Trying to download "purchased" music to my new iPad and only get an offer to try Apple Music.

I purchased music, either on my old iPad touch, or iTunes on my PC. I need to get the files onto my new 9th get iPad. The files are on the old iPad, and show as "purchased" on iTunes(PC) and on the new iPad. I can't download the files either to the PC or the new iPad. I've looked through all the suggestions I could find without success.

iPad, iPadOS 15

Posted on Jan 25, 2023 6:18 AM

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Posted on Jan 25, 2023 1:22 PM

On the new iPad go to the iTunes Store and download. Redownload music – Apple Support (AU)


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Jan 28, 2023 8:20 AM in response to picas

The problem was that many "purchased" items had been marked as "hidden". When trying to re-download, the "purchased" button was greyed out with no explanation of why. I was digging through everything on my Apple account and came across the "hidden" attribute. Some things I remembered hiding, others had somehow been marked that way. iTunes had crashed on my PC last year and corrupted my library. I gave up on iTunes at that time, but I needed to re-install to get things set up on a new iPad.

Thanks for the reply, I had gotten things working when I unhid everything.

Trying to download "purchased" music to my new iPad and only get an offer to try Apple Music.

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