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How to delete purchased tunes from iPhone?

I am undable to delete purchased tunes from my iPhone (4s, ios7.0.2) I can delete all other tunes through syncing on iTunes. However, purchased tunes remain on my iPhone. To the right of the title of the tune there is an image of a cloud with a arrow pointing downward. This indicates that the tune is to be downloaded. This is strange, as these tunes are already in iTunes. I tried touching the cloud to download the tunes onto my iPhone. Once all were downloaded, I went to settings, general, usage and to the music app. The I went to edit and delete. This did no good. The tunes are still there. I have tried this several times. On my last attempt, I download the tunes again (on my iPhone), the synced with iTunes. The tunes on my iPhone were temporarly gone, but soon came back. I do not want any of these tunes on my iPhone at this time. I don't know how to get rid of them.

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 6, 2013 1:29 PM

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Oct 8, 2013 12:26 PM in response to brenden dv

Thanks for the link.


I deleted the tunes from my computer and synced with my phone. The tunes still remain on my phone under the same conditions. I did enable iCloud on my phone and downloaded the tunes. Once downloaded, I swiped each tune to the left, bringing up the delete option. When I tried to delete a tune, it would not delete. Instead, the tune remained there and the cloud symbol reappeared. I'll work on this some more

Oct 8, 2013 6:54 PM in response to brenden dv

I agree that this issue needs to be fixed! I have this same issue and have done all of the above with no luck. I have spent the better part of 3 hours messing with this to no avail.


And to Brendan....We should not have to pay for a subscription just to remove a song from our playlist!! The DELETE SHOULD WORK! But alas, it doesn't. As stated in another post, the song just magically reappears.


I sign a new contract in 25 days, and this is just another reason why I am seriously contemplating switching to an Android.

Oct 9, 2013 7:24 AM in response to jai_d81

The issue here is not to disable all tunes, but to get rid of selected tunes on the iPhone.


I have been trying permutations of the procedure that described in my original post. The problem remains. I have done a workaround: assigned the tunes that I do not want to see on my iPhone to a genera of music that I never listen to. Now I can simply avoid opening this on my iPhone. I am not at the limit of my iPhone storage space, so I can live with this solution.


Nevertheless, this iTunes problem remains an issue. I look forward to a software patch that will correct it.

Jul 10, 2015 6:26 AM in response to jai_d81

Hi Jai


This just worked absolutley fine for me.

Thanks a million,I have even been able to delete some of the repeated songs on my Iphone4.


🙂🙂x

jai_d81 wrote:


If you read carefully and go to the actual page under settings>Music> show all music

You can see it's written to show music from iCloud and the music that has been downloaded.

So if you disable it, it won't disable all your songs, only those in your iCloud's.

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