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Smash87 Author

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Can I restore music after optimize storage removed it?

Long before using Apple Music and spotify, I have synched some music tracks that are not on any store, some of them are personal work, rare recordings, some of them are local music (I am Egyptian and many local songs never been in any store)

and many of these tracks I have been syncing since iPod days 20 years ago

so I am talking about offline tracks here, if they removed by optimize storage feature, would I have to re-sync them again or I would just redownload them from cloud?

AGAIN: these songs doesn’t exist on any store!

iPhone 11

Posted on Sep 18, 2023 12:33 PM

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Phil0124

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Posted on Sep 19, 2023 5:36 AM

If you are using the iCloud Music Library feature from Apple Music, songs on your computer, are either matched to something in the Apple Music catalog or are uploaded if they cannot be matched.

If these songs that don't exist on any store cannot be matched, they will be uploaded to the iCloud Music library, and can be downloaded from the iCloud Music library at any point.

If using Optimize Storage, they will be removed from the device, byt not removed from the library. You should still be able to see the entry for them, and download them at any point from the iCloud music library as long as you are subscribed to Apple Music.

If you ever cancel Apple Music, then you will need to sync them from the computer the are stored on.

Make sure you have a backup of said songs you can go back to on a computer, just to be absolutely safe.

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