No songs downloaded to iPhone, but storage still says I have > 9GB of music on the phone

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No songs downloaded to iPhone, but storage still says I have > 9GB of music on the phone

I have subscribed to Apple Music since launch. Basically no problems.

Sometimes I download some music locally to my iPhone to be able to play if I am offline.

I have deleted all downloaded songs from my iPhone. But when I check Music Storage (Settings-General-iPhone Storage- Music, it still says I have > 9GB of music stored on the iPhone.

The Library Tab in the Apple Music App shows no downloaded music.

How can I get rid of the 9 GB of storage use which actually is freed up?

iPhone 11 Pro

Posted on May 1, 2024 3:26 AM

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viking bear Author

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May 3, 2024 3:41 AM in response to viking bear

I kind of sorted this out myself. And I kind of did not...

I deleted the App completely from my iPhone, but kept the subscrition.
I then redowloaded the app to the iPhone and synced my Library again.
I struggled a bit to get the library to sync, but after signing out/in and force reboot the iPhone, the library is synced. There are now, as before, no music downloaded to the iPhone.
In setings, I can no see that music does not take up any storage space on the iPhone.I just got myself 9 GB of free space on the iPhone.

BUT: Over night, the music app has built up storage of data, and it now says I have > 5GB of music on the iPhone. I have not downloaded anything, an I cannot see any downloaded music on the iPhone. If I go offline, I cannot pay any music on the iPhone.

As far as I can understandm this must be a bug in the iOS or in the Music App, and I have filed a bug report to the iPhone team.

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