How to get U2 Songs of Innocence Album if it shows Purchased in iTunes Store

My wife had downloaded the U2 Album "Songs of Innocence" onto her iPhone 4s the other day and when I got my new iPhone 6+ I was hoping to get the album by syncing her phone with iTunes and then downloading the songs onto my iPhone. We share the same AppleID for iTunes.

It was a no-go. The songs all don't appear in her iPhone and didn't upload during the sync. There must be a glitch somewhere so I connected my new iPhone 6+ to my computer and iTunes and went to the Purchase iTunes Store. It showed Purchased and there was no option to re-download. Arg.

In doing a search on the Internet I found lots of articles on how to get rid of the album as multiple apple customers didn't want it and due to their settings it would download automatically onto their phones and they wanted to get rid of it. In fact Apple created a new tool to remove it from your iPhone.

But for me I wanted to get it ~

The way I did was to go onto my new iPhone 6+, tap to go to the Store, tap on the album and tape on FREE. After loggin in with my AppleID and tapping FREE again it began to download ~ Success. Add on syncing with iTunes on my computer it now has the Album on it.

Hope this posting helps you.

Cheers,

cH >