FreeWave Steve
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Q: iPhone showing all of my music even though 'show music available offline' is selected...

Hi all,

 

I'm having an issue where my iPhone is showing all of my songs on the iCloud Library even though I have the 'show music available offline' option selected, so it's less cluttered on my phone. I get annoyed with clutter and I want to find the songs I enjoy as soon as possible on my phone and not have to search through 11800 songs that seem to be showing up on my iPhone (only 600 of these are stored on the phone itself!)

 

Highly annoying as the phone seems to have tons of songs on it and when I just click shuffle it keeps streaming random songs and not the ones I have selected from the phone!

 

Any solutions out there or is this happening to anyone else?

 

I don't quite understand why the option for 'show music available offline' is there if it doesn't work?!

 

Thanks in advance.

iPhone 6, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 3, 2015 11:09 AM

by FreeWave Steve,Solvedanswer
FreeWave Steve FreeWave Steve
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Worked this out! Annoyingly, if you enable cellular data whilst using apple music it enables it for iTunes match as well which shows all 11800 songs (even though offline is selected)... Disable it and they disappear again but you can't stream apple music whilst out and about. Apple Fail??

Posted on Jul 4, 2015 1:46 PM

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  • by FreeWave Steve,Solvedanswer

    FreeWave Steve FreeWave Steve Jul 4, 2015 1:46 PM in response to FreeWave Steve
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    Jul 4, 2015 1:46 PM in response to FreeWave Steve

    Worked this out! Annoyingly, if you enable cellular data whilst using apple music it enables it for iTunes match as well which shows all 11800 songs (even though offline is selected)... Disable it and they disappear again but you can't stream apple music whilst out and about. Apple Fail??

  • by Steve Fiskum,

    Steve Fiskum Steve Fiskum Jul 24, 2015 11:19 AM in response to FreeWave Steve
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    Jul 24, 2015 11:19 AM in response to FreeWave Steve

    I've tried and tried...I still get all my songs after disabling it. This is maddening! Could you please describe step by step because there are so many places to go to turn things off:

    1. Settings>Music

    2. Settings>iTunes & App Store

    3. Music (app) (not easy to describe how to navigate to...) "Show Music Available Offline - Only show music stored on this iPhone." This is so weirdly worded it's hard to know what it's really supposed to do especially when nothing changes when it's ON or OFF.

     

    Thanks,

    Steve

  • by FreeWave Steve,

    FreeWave Steve FreeWave Steve Jul 24, 2015 12:19 PM in response to Steve Fiskum
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    Jul 24, 2015 12:19 PM in response to Steve Fiskum

    Well I thought I had this solved but my iPhone is still showing all of my music. I've just learnt to annoyingly deal with it. Hopefully it'll get fixed in an update?

  • by TomekOsiowy,

    TomekOsiowy TomekOsiowy Jul 24, 2015 2:23 PM in response to FreeWave Steve
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    Jul 24, 2015 2:23 PM in response to FreeWave Steve

    Turn off your iPhone, and after about 1 minute turn it on. Give the music app a few minutes to reorganize stuff (it may download some albums or songs).

  • by Leandro_Brazil,

    Leandro_Brazil Leandro_Brazil Jul 24, 2015 2:32 PM in response to TomekOsiowy
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    Jul 24, 2015 2:32 PM in response to TomekOsiowy

    That will not work! I face the same problem all the time, which is extremely annoying.

     

    The only way for it to not show the purchased songs is to sign out from your account, even though it will persistently asks for my account and password, but at least will not show my purchased songs.

     

    APPLE should fix this urgently or at least add a new application for those who don't want to listen to stream songs.

  • by steveh46a,

    steveh46a steveh46a Sep 12, 2016 8:20 AM in response to FreeWave Steve
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    Apple Music
    Sep 12, 2016 8:20 AM in response to FreeWave Steve

    Yes, this is an exceedingly stupid problem with music on the iPhone. Why would Apple include a setting that says it will only show music that is available offline, but when you use that setting it does NOT show only music that is available offline? I have no idea, but I did find out how to fix the problem. If you have thousands of songs though, this is going to be a very tedious way to fix it since you have to go into iTunes, access your purchased page under the "account" menu and hover your pointer over each song so that an "x" button appears to its right, then click the "x" button to hide each individual purchase one by one. Good luck!

    Complete instructions are available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201322

    And let's just say that this method of hiding music is not one anyone would just stumble upon intuitively using their iPhone.