I have activated icould and imatch. i was expecting that would move everything to the cloud and free up alot of space on my phone, but it still shows it all on my phone???
iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
Welcome to the Apple community.
Whilst you may have subscribed to iTunes match, any tunes that you have downloaded and listened to will be stored on your mobile device, therefore taking up space. If you wish to from time to time, you can selectively delete content to free up space. Any tunes that you do delete will remain listed in your iTunes match library and can be re-downloaded again at any time.
Welcome to the Apple community.
Whilst you may have subscribed to iTunes match, any tunes that you have downloaded and listened to will be stored on your mobile device, therefore taking up space. If you wish to from time to time, you can selectively delete content to free up space. Any tunes that you do delete will remain listed in your iTunes match library and can be re-downloaded again at any time.
i thought the whole point was that you would store your music, photos, etc on the cloud and have access to them from any of your devices.
so can i access my cloud from the web from anywhere and access my music and photos?
If you have iTunes Match, yes the idea of that is that you have access to all your music from anywhere. If you access it though you will be downloading it, in order to play the music you have chosen to play, once downloaded, that music will stay on your device unless you delete it.
Music that is on your phone will show up as normal, music that is only in the cloud will have a cloud icon next to it, when downloaded the cloud icon will disappear, if you delete it again the cloud icon will disappear again.
In the example below, all my albums by Matt Schofield are on my phone, the others would need downloading.
Photo's are different they kept on your device and only synced to the cloud so they can be pushed to other devices.
why is music still taking up space on my phone its all on icloud
