Why do I have extra songs in my iPhone playlist that are not on my iTunes library?

Do you have a computer with iTunes? If so follow the instructions in my post... Should work fine.

I did, but these songs weren't in the Purchased list. In fact, I couldn't find them anywhere. I did solve it though in the phone's settings. Under Settings->iTunes and App Store, I unselected "Show All Music".

I did this and it didn't help. Still have music I've deleted on iTunes on my Macbook AND from my iPhone 4S. It reappears. Just the worst. It's a shame I have to make a special trip to the Verizon store or to the Apple Store to get this taken care of. C'mon, Apple! Get with it! Help us on this!

It didn't work for me either.

This didn't work for me.

They will come back it is only a temeray fix untill apple fixes it. What I did was back up my iphone restored it, and restored it from a that back up after 7.1 came out. I haven't experianced any of the issues sense. But I'm not sure if the problem is still there. IF it is still in 7.1 this solustion is just a temperary fix but its better than nothing. I was just glad to find this descustion and find out I wansn't the only one having this problem.

They will come back it is only a temeray fix untill apple fixes it. What I did was back up my iphone restored it, and restored it from a that back up after 7.1 came out. I haven't experianced any of the issues sense. But I'm not sure if the problem is still there. IF it is still in 7.1 this solustion is just a temperary fix but its better than nothing. I was just glad to find this descustion and find out I wansn't the only one having this problem.There isn't much more that can be done to reslove this issue if it is still in 7.1, but I don't think it is! Let me know if this works for you!

But Its my solustion NOT yours he is talking about!

What helped in my case - in the end (without resetting the iPhone) was to log out of all Cloud services like Genius and Match. This removed the last copies. After a while I signed in again and the songs did luckily not come back (until now at least).

To be honest, when I connect the iPhone to iTunes, I will see some songs that were manually copied to the iPhone (and of course cannot be removed - ghosts), but they do not show up on the iPhone.

Genius! I believe it worked! I've been trying to get rid of this annoying Holiday song for ages, it was like a curse! 😢 Now it seems to be gone and I can listen to music on my phone without Fear!

After finally finding the time to update my iTunes library and deleting all the old music I didn't like anymore, I tried to re-sync my old resurrected 4S and found I had the same sort of problem as most people here - songs were no longer in iTunes but still appearing on my phone, no matter what I did to delete them (I'm running iOS7).

I don't have iTunes Match, I don't have any music saved in the Cloud (that I know of..) and flicking off "Show All Music" did absolutely nothing. What happened to the good old 'uncheck on iTunes and resync' option that I used to use on the old iOS systems?!

I'd spent so long deleting individual songs on my Mac that there was no way I was going to manually swipe and delete 1000+ tracks on my phone again, and selecting/deselecting albums and artists on iTunes would just be taking a step backwards.

Eventually, I figured out a solution and it worked! That being said, this is a solution for items totally deleted from your library and not unselected iTunes playlists/songs/albums etc. still sitting there. I didn't want to go as far as restoring my phone and I wan't even going to venture into manual file deletion on the Mac.

The solution was actually ridiculously simple:

Settings > General > Usage >

• under the STORAGE section, tap MUSIC
• under ALL MUSIC, swipe left to DELETE
• exit SETTINGS.

This will wipe your entire music library on your phone. Close the Music app and wait for a few minutes, then re-open it. "No Music" should now appear on the main screen.

Plug your phone in and under the MUSIC tab, select to sync "Entire Music Library". In the SUMMARY tab, only the "Automatically Sync When This iPhone Is Connected" box needs to be checked.

Hit APPLY and SYNC and there you go!

I can't guarantee this result for everyone, but it worked easily with me. No reboot or restore required.

Good luck 🙂

EDIT:

Also, if you really can't be bothered with all these steps and you mostly just have your music on shuffle anyway, simply select all the songs you want (majority or all of your library, whatever you wish), make a new playlist from those songs and resync your phone. Make sure the "Selected Playlists, Artists, Albums and Genres" box is checked (under the MUSIC tab when your phone is connected).

Same problem here although i dont think it has anything to do with purchased music. I have only purchased a couple of songs over the years with old ipods and there are hundreds of songs in my playlist. They do not exist on the phone but are streamed when i select them to listen to them. Many of them i have never heard of and certianly never purchased.

I have never sync'd my iphone with a computer either!

I think it started a few updates ago when apple started the "radio" option within music but i cant be sure since i never looked at the music feature on the phone prior to that then one day i looked and there were all these songs i had never heard of. I tried to fix it for a few minutes and then gave up until today.

My daughter sugested that i sync it and delete the songs manually or delete them onthe phone but that would have taken forever and i feel like i shouldnt have to waste my time doing that since i didnt put the songs there in the first place.

What did it for me was to sign out and sign back in again under Settings>Itunes &App Store

Just to be safe, i toggled "show all Music under Settings>Music

then i signed back in and NO MUSIC! nice.....Thanks!

Awesome, I had 8 songs sitting there and they stayed there even though I removed all my songs in iTunes. i.e. I didn't have anything there to sync. This one small action and a re-start of my iPhone solved this issues. Awesome and thank you soooo much!!

So annoyed by these ridiculous updates. Does someone actually suggest this crap, or do they just assume everyone wants to relearn how to use their phone every month in order to delete this annoying crap? grrr! ANY WAY... Same thing happened to me: started noticing random songs playing when my phone was on shuffle- don't know how they got there because I did not have the Cloud or Show All Music on? :-/ When I tried to use the familiar swipe-delete option... NOTHING! 😟 ...Several days later after reviewing help forums for a solution, I finally find this one! 🙂- THANK YOU! -Signing out of iTunes from my phone and deleting / restoring the Cloud (also from phone settings)- did the trick, BUT NOTE: it also deleted a couple of songs I had manually dragged onto my phone from the library.(?) ... But at least for now, the songs are gone and my swipe/delete option seems to be working again:)

PS

dear apple,

what happened? You guys are missing the mark! Stick to user friendly devices/software and if you have an itch to upgrade something, how about adding more pixels and better zoom, etc. to the camera/video, or a multi tasting feature?....-falling a little short in those areas in comparison.

You are a savior to mankind, thank you SO much for sharing your insight on the issue, I really appreciate it.