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Level 1

5 points

Deleted Song Keeps Reappearing!

Hi all

I downloaded a track onto my iPhone whilst out and about via iTunes. I now want to remove the song, but it's proving to be ridiculously tedious.

In iTunes I see the song in my music library, so I highlight it, CMD Del and remove the file. When I click on my iPhone in the menu, I go into music and I see the track in manually added songs at the bottom - I remove it from there. I go into Purchased on the left hand side - I delete it from there.

My songs are 'Sync only checked songs' and the song doesn't appear in any of the other lists, so it's not checked. At this point, there should be no trace of this track on my mac.

As soon as I sync it though to get the song off my phone library, iTunes puts it back in to the library and it wont leave my phone, I just cannot get rid of it!

Does anybody know where I am going wrong?!

Thanks

PS: I am running the latest version of iTunes, iPhone 4 on iOS 5.

iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 24, 2011 1:16 PM

51 replies

Sep 10, 2016 12:37 PM in response to Taffam

IF you delete to the trash can you must go into the trash and delete it from there as well or it will return . The trash doesn't auto delete when you close iTunes !!

Chris CA

Level 10

82,434 points

Sep 10, 2016 12:43 PM in response to hofmaster2001

hofmaster2001 wrote:

IF you delete to the trash can you must go into the trash and delete it from there as well or it will return .

No it won’t.

FYI: This thread is from +5 years ago.

You must turn off iCloud items in iTunes and on the iPhone.

amisa

Level 1

8 points

Nov 6, 2016 4:35 AM in response to JaePrice

thanks so much!!!! <3

Nov 17, 2016 9:32 AM in response to Taffam

Here is the only solution that I know of that will work, perminately (for iMac users):

1) Go to iTunes Store

2) Sign in with user ID

3) Select Purchases

4) Select Not in My Library

5) Viewing as Albums or Songs doesn't matter (but Albums will be quicker to clean-up)

6) Hover your mouse over the Artwork (if view Albums) and click X to delete (top left corner); If viewing Songs, hover mouse on right hand side (near iCloud logo) and select X to delete.

7) Songs will now be gone from your Library.

8) Note: If selection is a video or songbook, it will only appear under Songs (not Albums).

Happy deleting!

Scaley

Level 1

13 points

Dec 30, 2016 2:41 PM in response to My iPhone weighs a ton!

Same here, when I remove my purchases, I want them off my phone. I definitely don't want purchases overriding my my playlist. I only have 16gb of storage, Apple stubbornly won't give me an expansion slot and I find twice as many songs as I selected transferred to my phone. Transfer purchases used to "move" the file from the phone to the computer.

I lost space because my phone is full of songs not in my playlist. It didn't do this when I bought my first iPhone.

I am becoming very disillusioned with Apple.

Apr 24, 2017 11:28 AM in response to Dougsa80

No one CARES what you think.

Just answer the question - or leave the bar.

Deleted Song Keeps Reappearing!