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how to delete songs from ipad

I have icloud and the songs have downloaded to my ipad, i want to remove some of the songs from my ipad, how do i do that?

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Posted on May 12, 2013 3:58 AM

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Posted on May 12, 2013 5:10 AM

If the song has been downloaded and you want to remove it you just need to swipe your finger from right hand side across towards the left and a red delete button should appear.

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Jan 26, 2014 6:15 PM in response to debba330

You need to go a little further. Settings>General>Usage> then wait for storage to show you your apps and how much storage they each have. Since you have so much, you probably will not need to scroll down and choose "show all apps". Then >Music. You'll see the edit button in the top right corner. Tap and you'll see a red button next to "all music". Tap and you'll get a delete button. I hope this helps.

May 13, 2014 2:27 PM in response to lactics

If I understand this correctly, there are 2 options to delete songs:

1. From Settings, General, delete all music.

2. Go one by one, and delete each song by swiping from the right. Would have to do this for each song individually.


I don't know the best way to point this out to Apple, but this isn't a good solution. I have hundreds of songs, but I certainly don't want to delete all my songs and then have to re-download lots of them. There really should be a way to manage a long list of songs without having to go one by one to delete them individually. I think this is an easy tasks on other platforms, why should it be so much harder on an iPad.

May 28, 2014 8:16 AM in response to lactics

You should Zero Out your personal data with the programs/apps like Safe eraser which supports both non-jailbroken and jailbroken devices OR ishredder If you want to erase data permanently from your iPhone/iPad , so that no one can recover your deleted data by using various iOS recovery programs available in the market. This is true for both Jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices.


P.S - I was also looking for something to erase my iPhone 4S (jailbroken) data permanently before selling it.

Aug 5, 2014 4:46 PM in response to Plazaumar

Ah okay. This is fascinating, thanks guys. I have a similar scenario.


I've just fully reset my iPad to factory settings and have been looking at that show all music option you mentioned. I've just switched on that option and can see 80 songs, supposedly from my iCloud, but yet on my device. There's the little iCloud symbol beside them in the Music app and I can download them if I wish. If I do this however, I am unable to delete these "downloaded" songs and there's no way of getting them off. Thus, this messes up my iTunes as when I now throw some music onto my device via USB, there'll always be 80 more songs than there should be.


However, if I don't select that show all music option then everything's fine, and I can just manually transfer via USB.


Now, the only way I found to get everything back to normal and "in sync" after downloading those songs initially from my iCloud (under show all music) was to do another full factory reset to remove that content and those downloaded songs.


Am I an idiot, have I missed something, does this make sense or this a bit of a flaw in the system?


Would be great to hear from you.


Thanks,

Nick.

Aug 13, 2014 3:09 PM in response to franck103

Franck

I followed the above solution and it worked on the second attempt. Initially I had the same problem as you.

The first time I followed Settings/General/Usage/Music.........then I hit Edit and deleted all music that way. I had the same problem as you.

The second time I followed Settings/General/Usage/Music.......then I swiped across All Music and hit the delete button that pops up. After a few moments I went to music and it was all gone.

Make sure you go to settings/itunes and deselect "show all music" before you do the above.

Also, when you connect the iPad to iTunes via cable, make sure on the summary tab under options, you have only got "Sync only checked songs and videos" selected.

This worked for me.

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