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Hello,
I've downloaded too many songs from my iCloud account. How can I delete them from the iPhone but still keep them in the list of available tracks?
Also, how can I just stream the songs on my iPhone that are in my iCloud account without actually downloading them?
Thank you so much for your help!
iCloud does not support streaming, you can manually unsync the songs from your phone that you dont want by using iTunes (uncheck sync entire music library, then check the albums you want to sync to the phone)
remember a computer is a requirement for an iPhone4 iTunes will store the extra content you dont have room for on your phone! 🙂
To all those unbelievably frustrated by this problem since iOS7 added in iCloud songs, as I was, I finally found a solution. Here's what you do:
1. Go to iTunes Store
2. From the Home Page, click on Purchased under the field Quick Links on the right side of the page
3. Your purchase history will appear
4. Filter by Songs instead of Albums
5. Hover over any song you want to delete
6. Click the black x that appears on the right side of the screen
7. This will "hide" the song from appearing on your iPhone
8. Enjoy shuffle without worrying about those random songs playing
Hope this helps!
contraversy wrote:
Don't go to itunes match, look do it like this to delete songs from iPhone:
1. open iTunes
2. connect phone to computer with usb cable
3. click on the phones name on the left under devices
4. you should see a page open in iTunes with a picture of a phone with some information, above that with some options at the top.
5. click music
6. make sure Sync Music is checked
7. UNCHECK sync entire music library if it is checked and click which albums you want to sync
8. if there is no music listed then the music is not on your computer in your itunes library and needs to be downloaded to the computer first
if u prefer a different method just swipe over each song you dont want and remove it.
If you didn't have the songs on the iPad before you updated but you purchased it, there is a feature enabled by default that shows all music. to turn it off go to settings/music/show all music-off. Otherwise, to delete music, swipe from right to left over what you want to delete.
I have songs on my iPhone5S after enabling iTunes Match that appear as "stream" in filesize yet I can't see or delete them from my phone. Appear to be cached somewhere on the device that I can't see/access? I've tried all of the suggestions/tricks listed in this thread but still can't remove. I see them everytime I sync my iPhone w/ iTunes - they are listed in the "Music" header just below my iPhone's name in the Devices pane - they don't appear to be in "stream" state on my iMac/in iTunes just on my iPhone device. ***?
Oh how simple when you know how! Thank you!
Deleting songs from iPhone 4s/streaming iCloud songs
