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Sminman Author

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How Do I Delete Songs From My iPhone, That Have Been Downloaded Via iTunes Match?

Everytime I play a song on my iPhone via iTunes Match, the song itself gets downloaded to the phone's actual hard drive.

I have played enough songs, that the majority of my iPhone's memory is taken up.

How do I do a clean wipe of all the downloaded songs (without having to delete indiviual songs), to make room for more songs to listen to?

If their is a way, will it effect my iTunes Match? It took days to sync my library up and it's the last thing I would want to do again.

Thanks in advance,

Sminman

iMac, iPhone, iPod Hi-Fi, iPad, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 12, 2011 5:55 PM

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natevancouver

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Posted on Dec 13, 2011 2:46 AM

You can do this on your iPhone by going to Settings > General > Usage. Wait a few seconds for the usage statistics to appear, then choose Music.

In the Music category, tap Edit and then the delete symbol next to “All Music”.

This will delete all the music from the phone. After this songs will still be visible (with clouds next to them). You can still play them from iTunes Match and they will be downloaded again; this will not remove them from iTunes Match.

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Jan 14, 2012 7:44 AM in response to justnottennis

Apparently, even after a restore, once you start downloading and deleting tracks again these "ghost" tracks will show up. As far as I have seen there is no way to prevent them. So it is just something we have to live with. I suggest you submit your feedback to Apple at this page <http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html>.

Feb 15, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Sminman

another way you can delete all the songs from your phone is go to music and turn off itunes match and wait a little while and then go back into itunes match and turn it back on and a you will get a warning that iTunes Match will replace the music library on this device and you can hit enable. hope this helps as well.

dumontd

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Feb 22, 2012 7:13 AM in response to natevancouver

Thanks for your help with this problem... I tried them all and your solution is fail proof and the easiest to do.

Not sure many users know about how to delete muic from a IPhone,Itouch in the USAGE

Dan

May 31, 2012 11:00 PM in response to natevancouver

THANK YOU

It's nice when someone posts clearly and the post is relavant.

Adam

Dec 15, 2012 7:35 PM in response to Sminman

For me, swipe to delete music ONLY works if I am deleting a folder that has playlists inside it. Which is not very useful. I just wanted to confirm that I SHOULD be able to delete any song on the device by simply swiping regardless of where it is—in a playlist, while browsing songs directly, in search results, or in a playlist.

I have iTunes Match turned on and I have tried it with "show all songs" turned on and off and it does not let me swipe to delete any indavidual songs (it simply starts playing them after the swipe gesture).

Edit: The only way I have found so far to manage iTunes Match music is to turn iTunes Match off, plug the phone into the computer, select what music I want to sync, and re-sync ALL my music.

Jan 19, 2013 4:50 PM in response to Sminman

So now that I have deleted all of my music under usage, I can't get anything back. I haven't plugged my phone back into my computer but there are no clouds next to any of my music to re download.....

How Do I Delete Songs From My iPhone, That Have Been Downloaded Via iTunes Match?