I accidentally downloaded the U2 album...?

Maybe it's "free" because they're going to make their money by charging us to get it taken off...

Pornflakes wrote:

Maybe it's "free" because they're going to make their money by charging us to get it taken off...

It is the same cost to take it off as it is to put it on. But if you don't want it, it would be simpler not to download it. That is also free.

If you need assistance with this please post back.

unlike tudormonkey, i never accidently downloaded it. but its in the cloud and visible on my phone which means that on shuffle mode, a feature that i use almost daily, it might play a song from a band i dislike. i don't want to disable the cloud option on the phone because i have songs there which i bought, and that i actually like, that i want to listen to without downloading.

it is not easy to get rid of these songs, if i could easily delete them i wouldn't be wasting my time arguing with apple fanboys who can't see how this promo action is wrong. i had to go home, open my macbook, go to the apple store and hide the album, and it hid it from my computer but not from my phone. it seems now that i will have to reset my phone to get rid of a stupid album from a band which hasn't released a relevant song in more than 20 years. and i'm supposed to consider this a gift!!! please!

it was very easy to make the album for free on apple store for those who wanted it, what i don't like is them shoving things down my throat.

Yeah pretty much agree, I downloaded while trying to delete, I admit I didn't fully understand 'hide' and so on: I do think the stubborn refusal of getting it off the iPhone is some kind of glitch though. Anyway 'hide' is more or less delete to trash I found out, I accept that but it is still in my view the kind of bloatware which you always had to delete on Dells and so on. I am an Apple 'fanboy' one of the reasons was preciesely this kind of thing though.

Well kudos to apple they now have a tool to remove it, which I used, even though I had managed to 'hide' the album; it worked as and was simple as far as I can tell. I learnt some stuff about 'hiding' and downloading etc. during this process too! 😁 I listened to one track by the way, I didn't like, I really didn't like it. Seems like an incredible 5% of the people who received it downloaded it though! me and hakureimu by accident of course.

betamaya wrote:

it was very easy to make the album for free on apple store for those who wanted it, what i don't like is them shoving things down my throat.

So close your mouth.

Wow that's such incredible advice... obviously they're not charging to take it off.............. I just don't don't want the trash *** music on my phone in the first place

Be assured that we're all praying for you at this difficult time. In the meantime, this may help....

http://first-world-problems.com/#sthash.3Sxk5Snd.dpbs

ynfzfarhib wrote:

Wow that's such incredible advice... obviously they're not charging to take it off.............. I just don't don't want the trash *** music on my phone in the first place

Then don't download it, and if you already did I can only wonder why you downloaded something that you consider to be trash.

Do you need someone to hold your hand until this is over?

People are complaining because they accidentally downloaded tracks from the album whilst trying to delete them.

And to the earlier poster, this IS spam. It's unsolicited advertising. Apple could have made the album free in the store but choose to invade their customer's devices.

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MstrC wrote:

And to the earlier poster, this IS spam. It's unsolicited advertising.

What exactly are they advertising?

?? U2's music.

Apple reportedly paid U2 €100 million for the 'privilege' of pushing an album that would have otherwise struggled to achieve a million sales worldwide. For what? Why U2?

And why has my earlier comment been edited? The part removed was in line with the terms of service (maybe criticism of apple should be added to the list).

And why has my earlier comment been edited? The part removed was in line with the terms of service

We don't know the answer to that.

I'm having the same issue. There is no delete option on the phone and swiping doesn't work. It must have "pocket" downloaded a couple songs because I don't put music on my iphone, only audiobooks.

Calling this a "gift" is the equivalent of calling the Norton AV that comes on a dell a gift. Has anyone figured out how to remove these from the phone without connecting to iTunes? I tried the hide option but 3 songs remain that are un-removable as far as I can tell.

It's been posted a hundred times here, but being three months late to this thread, here it is again.

Remove iTunes gift album "Songs of Innocence" from your iTunes music library and purchases - Apple Support

Pete