can't delete purchased music from iPhone

@djlidz08 thanks! this finally worked 🙂

Thanks!!!!!!!

My solution isn't a complete delete but at least it is almost as good. I had albums my (at the time) 13 year old son purchased on my account and not only does he now dislike the music, I've always hated it. I found no way to PERMANENTLY delete. But I followed these steps on this help page and at least I don't have to see those hated albums anymore in my Music app choices.

Easy directions to follow with this hot link:

iTunes Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases

No, it's not perfect, not forever gone, but my aggravation level at least lowered with this half fix. I did the actual changes via my iMac, but it mirrored the deleted (hidden) purchases from view instantly on my iPad and iPhone as well. Ah, visual peace again.

This TOTALLY worked! Thank you!!!!!!!

Yes, the little cloud shows, but when you then go back into Settings>Music, and turned OFF the show all music switch, those songs are gone. hooray!

@bayoukitty
Did you get this worked out? There were so many posts. What absolutely worked for me was this suggestion: Settings>Music make sure Show All Music is clicked on. Go to music and swipe each song you DON'T want, click delete, and the download cloud should appear. Once you've done that to all of the songs you want to delete, go back to Settings>Music and click OFF Show All Music. It works :-)

Just registered to say thank you (and other guys)! Finally got rid of the ghost album!

P.S. I'm using iPhone5 and iOS7.1.2.

Thanks, it W O R K E D ! ! ! ! ! !. Great solution. This problem was driving me mad. Every time I turn on radio and phone connected via Bluetooth it starts playing this GHOST song automatically, I deleted this song ages ago.

If it doesn't work for you guys then you are not following all steps correctly.

#### R E A D THIS POST by @lcwange_e AGAIN ### (if author doesn't mind I will modify his solution, to make it easier to READ)

lcwange_e wrote:

"...Hi! Ok I just figured out how to delete the songs!

so here's the deal:

You didn't press the little download cloud yet. You can't delete something that technically isn't there.

1. So go to SETTINGS >>> MUSIC and "TURN ON (!!!!)" #SHOW ALL MUSIC

2. After that go to your music collection on the phone and find your song. Press the cloud to download the songs you want to delete

3. Go back to SETTINGS >>> MUSIC and "TURN OFF (!!!!)" #SHOW ALL MUSIC. Then go to the songs you want to delete, slide and delete! :-)

Hope that helped! ..."

What ended up working for me:

On The Phone:

Settings - Music - Show all music- off

Settings - iTunes - Automatic Downloads (music) - off

At this point the downloaded purchases are still in the phone and need to be deleted!

This step may be unnecessary, but I'm including it because that's what I did: Connect to iTunes and uncheck Sync Music, then click Sync to remove your music from the phone.

Back on your phone:

Settings - General - Usage - Storage - Music- Swipe and delete all music (this will delete the remaining downloaded purchases)

Back on iTunes:

Check Sync music again, and sync - this will replace all of the music you actually want.

Not sure if this will help anyone but here goes. Basically was having the same problem with 10 songs that wouldn't delete from my iPhone 5S and yet at the same time they weren't showing up when I connected the phone to iTunes via my iMac. These were songs that I had previously purchased for friends through iTunes and wanted to remove them from my phone.

My solution was to connect to iTunes through my iMac and sync the artists whose songs I couldn't delete from the phone. Once the songs had been loaded on the phone through the iTunes sync, the right to left swipe delete motion worked and I was able to remove all of the unwanted songs.

Easy peasy. But sure was frustrating until I figured it out.

Best of luck!

Solution:

Go to Settings -> Music -> Deactivate Show All Music

Done! 🙂

when all else failed, this worked:

Settings - General - Usage - Storage - Music- Swipe and delete all music (this will delete the remaining downloaded purchases)

danke

Thank You So much!!! I tired everything and it did not work, i was going crazy for hours here!!! you solved my problem!! Wish a life of blessings for you!

Hi

I've gone through all of the information and would like to say thanks for all of the comments.

The solution that seems to be recommended the most is downloading the songs from the icloud and then deleting them, using the swiping method and then de-activating the show all music option from the settings of the iphone/ipad etc.

However this to me only seems to be a temporary fix. Is there not something that is a bit more permanent?