How do I delete a song that was accidentally downloaded from icloud on IOS 7?

When I first downloaded IOS 7, all the songs that my siblings purchased from itunes showed up in my music. All these songs had a cloud and an arrow pointing down next to it which of course meant that I could download it from icloud. I didnt really like this so I was able to turn it off by going to setting>music> and switching the "show all Music" to off. That finally got rid of all those songs that were stored in icloud however, I had accicdentally downloaded some of the songs when I was scrolling through my music.

Now, I want to delete these songs but whenever I try swiping left on the song, I dont get the option to delete it from my phone. The next thing I tried was to connect my phone to itunes and try "transferring my purchases" so I could just delete the song in my itunes library. When I did this, these particular songs did not sync over to my itunes library and I've tried this a couple of times.

Does anyone know how to get rid of these songs?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Sep 27, 2013 4:01 PM

17 replies

Dec 28, 2013 7:32 PM in response to Rain97

This has become a really annoying problem, specifically with iTunes purchased music. I am pretty sure there is a bug here.

Here is my scenario:

I manage music with a synced playlist for my iPhone. I have music I purchased in the iTunes music store that I do not want on my iPhone, so I delete it from my playlist. It shows up over and over as a partial album in my iphone music player even though I purchased the whole album. 'Show All Music' is off as is 'automatic downloads'. I finally unsynced the entire playlist and found some of my iTunes music store purchases still on my phone taking up space. I went to Settings > General > Usage > Music and deleted everything there. Everytime I would sync my music, random purchases were still showing up. Sometimes full albums, sometimes partial albums, sometimes not at all... very random. So I then went into my music that was showing up randomly in iTunes, highlighted them all, right clicked and 'unchecked' them all. That got rid of some, but still some showed up. Then I realized at @Rain97's suggestion to log out of itunes music store and then try synching. Then it worked as expected.

There is something about being signed into the iTunes music store and syncing that is triggering random songs to show up whether they are on playlists or not.

I guess the secret to keep this from getting messy is to sign out of iTunes Music store each time you sync your iphone. Definitely annoying.

genxjedi

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Feb 5, 2014 10:48 AM in response to ChaseOH

You've missed one little step in your explanation.

After you've downloaded the song again, you have to go back into settings and unswipe "show all music", then go and delete the song. If you don't unswipe show all music, the song will re-appear with that download cloud again.

Anyways, your advise was awesome.

Great help.

Cheers.

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How do I delete a song that was accidentally downloaded from icloud on IOS 7?