I accidentally downloaded the U2 album...?

and there is no Hidden Purchases option when i log on my itunes account!

Duh!

You don't have anything hidden so you can unhide anything.

Once you actually hide the songs, you will see Hidden purchases option.

apple decided to send unwanted content to my phone, tell me if this isn't spam??

It isn't SPAM.

agree with Chris really. I am annoyed though somehow. You can hide it without hiding other stuff though, user error caused me problems and I won't blame Apple for that. I found it annoying though, we accept a lot of unsolicited stuff thru the mails, maybe there should be a "Don't want your freebies" option! I really don't like U2 is part of the problem.

betamaya wrote:

and i would write a letter to my congressman if i was getting garbage dumped in my yard!!

Why?

Call the cops.

tudormonkey wrote:

I found it annoying though, we accept a lot of unsolicited stuff thru the mails, maybe there should be a "Don't want your freebies" option!

Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

oh, i see.

thank you for helping me hide the spam apple is sending me even though you were rude about it.

betamaya wrote:

oh, i see.

thank you for helping me hide the spam apple is sending me even though you were rude about it.

Where was I rude?

Yeah I couldn't see that either Chris CA!? I don't think you were rude, sometimes it is a cultural thing though, that happens to me sometimes when I think I am just stating a fact, especially since I came to USA! 🙂 I am sure Chris didn't mean to be rude betamaya.

well, you were a bit rude. but my problem isn't with you Chris, but with Apple....

i guess i'm still not happy cos the **** thing won't go away from my phone. i've managed to remove it from my computer, it isn't showing on my list of purchases but its still showing on my iphone. isn't this a lot of fun? that's the best gift ever, something i've always wanted, like a statue of feces glued inside my home.

even if i can take this away, and please someone help me here, it's just wonderful spending all this time figuring out how to get rid of something that shouldn't be there in the first place.

ps. i don't have itunes match, i don't know if this is the problem here... nor do i plan on signing it after this little stunt

it's okay no harm done. yes, maybe its a cultural thing.. i am not from the US.

i just want to get rid of this thing.

I had the same problem betamaya. I couldn't get it off my phone, I have no idea why, I didn't go anything with match and don't have it so it could be to do with that?
Like you I was annoyed and also accidentaly downloaded two tracks somehow. In the end I backed up my phone to iTunes and did a full restore. As it happens this also corrected alert sounds not coming thru when I had a headset attached, though I had been led to believe that this was the way the phone worked, so I hadn't tried to correct it before.
Anyway I had to do a full reset, that worked though I am not sure why and exactly what I did afterwards. I think if you have hidden the **** thing in iCloud it should be ok since it won't appear in the back up or on iTunes?

betamaya wrote:

THIS IS NOT A GIFT! THIS IS SPAM!!!!!

You type nonsense, there is no need to shout as well.

thanks a lot tudormonkey i'll try that later on.

it's upsetting to have to all of this to get rid of it though.

i find it funny how some people (i've been reading posts about this all over the internet) are so quick to jump to apple's defense. when this is clearly not a gift, but a marketing strategy between apple and U2, and they both are benefiting for it. this is promo, and unsolicited one, to me this is a form of spam.

a gift would be the opportunity to download an album of my choosing for free.

betamaya wrote:

a gift would be the opportunity to download an album of my choosing for free.

So you have your own rules for what constitutes a gift, as you may. But that does not mean that they apply to others.

I see it as a worrying development actually, though I don't feel as strongly as betamaya. A kind of bloatware in my view. I was able to get rid of it and the problems were mostly user-error initially. I agree that it is promotional and self serving for U2 and Apple though gifts often are! I don't want material I haven't solicited on my iTunes basically and I think it is a worrying trend. Mostly my podcasts and iTunes U are amazingly advert and promo free, maybe that is now felt to be a problem from a commercial point of view? Gifts are anthropologically complex and interesting. books and albums are notoriously tricky ones aren't they and assume familiarity? Apple got it totally wrong in my case. I did listen to one track too by the way, that made me even madder, I thought it was sh*t. A gift in this case would have been a credit of $9.99 in one's account? iTunes is a resource for me, I use it for audio books and lectures etc. I don't want promo stuff on it. I agree that it is, if you know how to do it, fairly easy to 'hide' the album and I learnt some of that stuff in the course of it: the accidental download meant I had to do a reset of the whole phone though, that might be a technical glitch for all I know.

tudormonkey wrote:

I don't want material I haven't solicited on my iTunes basically

Then why did you download it?