Apple Music app taking up too much storage on iPad

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Apple Music app taking up too much storage on iPad

Apple Music was taking up over 4 GB on my iPad, even though I have downloaded no content. Frequent offloading to make room for updates allowed for the update but had no impact on the storage when I reinstalled the app. Recently I had to actually delete the app to make room for an update. After the update I reinstalled Apple Music. Now it takes up over 7 GB and storage is so tight the iPad's functioning is negatively affected.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Mar 7, 2024 12:22 AM

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gphemphill Author

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Mar 7, 2024 5:15 AM in response to Ingo2711

So I went to Storage and it looks like the 7 GB is music (red bar). I am basing this on the approximate portion of the 32 GB storage bar it makes up. I went ahead and deleted (again) Apple Music and the entire red bar (i.e. 7+ GB) disappeared immediately. I then restored Apple Music and the 7+ GB bar immediately reappeared at the beginning of the download. The downloaded only took a few minutes (I do have a large library in the cloud), but too fast to have included any actual music files. I absolutely have made no music downloads even before deleting the application twice in the last few days. And again, oddly the result of multiple offloads/deletions and reinstallations has been to increase the Apple Music storage space from 4+ to 7+ GB, ceteris paribus!

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Ingo2711

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Mar 7, 2024 2:03 AM in response to gphemphill

Did you already check the storage on your iPad, to find out, which media type is taking up the 7GB?

How to check the storage on your iPhone and iPad - Apple Support

Also check the size for the Music App in Settings/Music/Downloads/Music downloads/ to make sure, that there have no albums or songs been downloaded.

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Ingo2711

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Mar 7, 2024 2:22 AM in response to gphemphill

Did you already try to force restart your iPad?

Force restart iPad - Apple Support

If this does not reduce the size of your empty music app, then restoring the iPad would be the next step:

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings - Apple Support

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gphemphill Author

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Mar 7, 2024 2:15 AM in response to gphemphill

Yes, of course. Just to be clear, in Storage it says Apple Music "Documents & Data" takes up 7.16 GB. Again, I have downloaded no content on this device. Presently, I have offloaded the App so that I can free up some storage space to make other applications function.

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