iTunes/Apple Music

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iTunes/Apple Music

I recently bought a song on my iPhone, but it wasn’t showing up on my laptop (I’m logged in to my apple id on both devices) However, when I synced both my phone and laptop, so that my laptop would have to song I just bought, my Apple Music (on my phone) automatically downloaded all of the playlists that i have on my laptop (I have thousands of songs because I am a DJ.) But now my Apple Music library is all over the place downloading all of my offline playlists.

My question is there a way to remove all of my music and playlists that sent to my phone without it deleting from my laptop? Anytime I try to do this, the message says that it will be deleted across all devices. Pretty annoying that my offline downloaded songs from record pools, digital crates, etc are o. my phone that I can’t even listen to because they aren’t on Apple Music. Hoping I can get some help.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Dec 23, 2023 8:44 AM

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turingtest2

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Dec 23, 2023 11:43 AM in response to kosmusic

On your iPhone you can go to Settings > Music, then turn off Automatic Downloads. You can then select any album, artist, genre, playlist, etc. and use the three dots menu to remove downloads from the device. This frees up space while still giving you access to all of your Apple Music content on the device. Alternatively you can turn off Sync Library on the iPhone and then selectively sync content to it from your Music library.

Back in your library you should enable the iCloud Status column in the Songs view of your library and check that your songs are listed as purchased, matched, or uploaded. All of these will be available to any other computer or device where Apple Music is enabled. If you have tracks in other states it may be possible to fix these, or at least understand why they are present.

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turingtest2

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Dec 23, 2023 5:02 PM in response to kosmusic

In which case see Use Sync Library with your Apple Music subscription - Apple Support and turn on Sync Library in both your computer and your device, and you should see the whole iCloud Music Library in both places.

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kosmusic Author

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Dec 23, 2023 4:43 PM in response to turingtest2

Automatic downloads was already turned off. I turned off Sync Library and now all of the songs that I had downloaded thru Apple Music via my monthly subscription, are gone as well. Only songs that I have purchased are in my library. This is a nightmare.

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