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Apple Music keeps asking me to sign up when I already have!

I subscribed to Apple Music on my Mac at home, and it works lovely! But now I am at work and trying to play Apple Music on my iPhone 6+ and it keeps sending me to a page asking for me to subscribe before it will go any further? What am I doing wrong?

Mac mini (Late 2012), iOS 6.1.4, latest iTunes update

Posted on Jul 6, 2015 5:46 AM

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Posted on Jul 16, 2015 9:41 AM

The same thing was happening to me & I realized that I have not turned off my phone at all since I did the latest software update. I turned off my phone & turned it back on and that seems to have resolved the issue. As soon as I turned it back on I was prompted for my Apple ID & Password - after entering it I received a couple of pop-ups telling me that I'm already registered for Apple Music. The pop-ups were a little annoying, but easy enough to get rid of. I think my phone finally got the hint and I haven't been asked to register for Apple Music anymore.

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Jul 16, 2015 9:41 AM in response to arthur1979

The same thing was happening to me & I realized that I have not turned off my phone at all since I did the latest software update. I turned off my phone & turned it back on and that seems to have resolved the issue. As soon as I turned it back on I was prompted for my Apple ID & Password - after entering it I received a couple of pop-ups telling me that I'm already registered for Apple Music. The pop-ups were a little annoying, but easy enough to get rid of. I think my phone finally got the hint and I haven't been asked to register for Apple Music anymore.

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Aug 24, 2015 6:52 AM in response to soundinator

Seems to be the worst over cellular data. For the last several days I've been unable to use my iPhone 5S (8.4.1) while in the car on CarPlay. I have to get back to the house or office and reboot the phone in order to clear the prompt. As the poster above me said, even the settings page for iTunes is locked out until this prompt is cleared.


The prompt, after selection an options, stays grayed out and frozen until the phone is returned to WiFi or it is rebooted. There is no other fix. Force closing iTunes just returns the choice the next time it is opened. iTunes is set in settings to use Cellular Data.


Very irritating.

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Aug 26, 2015 10:27 PM in response to arthur1979

Same problem for a couple of days now.


  • Apple Music asks me to Join even though I already have.
  • Going to Settings, Music locked up the Setting App
  • Within Apple Music, clicking the head in the upper left corner, then selecting View Apple ID locked up the Music App.
  • Clicking on Sign Out did nothing.


Solution? I did a hard reboot of the phone (hold down the power and home button). Then went into Settings, Music and turned iCloud Music Library on. Fixed!


Bottom line: Turning iCloud Music Library on in Settings fixed it.

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Aug 31, 2015 7:26 AM in response to arthur1979

For me it not only affects Apple Music (where no music streams) with the music settings not working. It also affects:

  • the Podcast App (white screen)
  • the App Store (apps that I have installed show up as cloud icons instead of installed and new apps don't install
  • Safari (I went to the same page in Safari and Chrome - Chrome loaded the page, but Safari did not).


To me it seems to affect all the Apple apps.


I have rebooted, reset, logged off/on all with short term results, but the problem keeps coming back.


This is very disappointing.

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Jul 6, 2015 2:50 PM in response to arthur1979

I was having the exact same issue. It seems a hard reset of my phone has resolved the issue (for the moment)! I really do hope apple resolve these issues, it just seems like another Apple maps fiasco releasing software before these bugs have been ironed out.

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Aug 24, 2015 1:04 AM in response to bluemondayz

I have the exact same issue as bluemondayz and it drives me crazy.


This problem used to exist since I started my trial, but back then it maybe happened once in a few days. Since last week I can be happy if I can listen to music for 30 minutes. I cannot reboot my phone every 30 minutes...


I also noticed that as soon as this happens, the "Music" settings are frozen and cannot be opened anymore until you reboot the device.

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Aug 25, 2015 1:28 AM in response to intercede007

Hi intercede007


I hade a closer look at the things you mentioned:


As I use Apple Music on my way to work mostly I also experienced the issues over cellular. Also, our Wi-fi in the office is not very reliable so I was using cellular most of the time as well.


I have now listened to music over wi-fi a while and unfortunately this does not seem to work either. After maybe 30 minutes the next song of an album does not play and the login screen appears after a while.


Switching back to wifi or turn on airplan mode and then switch back to wi-fi does not seem to work either.


Quite strange: even when the login prompt appread I can still listen to songs I do not own but I have been listing to recently. So Apple Music seems to cache this somehow. However: For me there is no way to play songs I did not listen to recently beside rebooting the whole device.


If this is not resolved soon I will need to quit apple music even if I like it!


I'm also on 8.4.1 but an iPhone 6.

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Aug 25, 2015 11:41 AM in response to arthur1979

The same thing just started to happen to me about 2 days ago. Prior to that it was working great for a few weeks. Restarting the music app doesn't work, only a reboot of my phone (iphone 6) solves the issue for a little while. After a reboot it lets me listen to one album or an apple curated playlist but if I try to switch to anything else it spins and eventually shows the join apple music screen.

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Aug 26, 2015 8:49 AM in response to soundinator

I tried signing out but nothing ever happens. I see a little gray flash of color indicating the button/link was pressed but that's it.


Several force closing of the app as well as several full phone reboots did nothing except allowed me to stream one song then nothing else. Also, pressing the "Radio" button at the bottom did nothing. Just got the loading screen.


However, once I got to my office and connected to our (relatively slow) WIFI network everything worked great (albeit after another reboot). Beats 1 loaded almost instantly, I streamed random albums and playlists. Life is good!


Then I decided to test the cell connection again. I forced closed all the apps, disabled WIFI and performed another full reboot. But I didn't launch Apple Music right away, I unlocked the phone then let it sit for about a minute or so just so I didn't immediately weigh the phone down with an immediate request. To my surprise and my satisfaction everything worked!! Wish I could explain what happened. For all I know Apple fixed the situation so all my reboots and such didn't really do anything. Like adjusting the radio in the car hoping for a better signal. You think you fixed it when you just drove outside of the dead zone you were in a few miles back.


Hopefully everyone else is okay. I can only pray this doesn't happen again. It was really, REALLY frustrating. I wanna love Apple Music and I know it has some UI/UX flaws but if I can't stream music when I tap on it that's a major problem. If Apple Music wants displace Spotify at the very least the service needs to be reliable.

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Aug 26, 2015 8:54 AM in response to incredibilistic

Hi incredibilistic


I think you cannot sign out after the prompt has shown up. I had the same issue, the sign out button did not work. It seems to be the same as with > Settings > Music (which is frozen until you reboot the phone).


The sign out button became active after a reboot of the iPhone too. I then signed out and signed in again, and since then it seems to be working alright...

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Aug 26, 2015 8:55 AM in response to arthur1979

I see people are suggesting Signing Out; however, I am unable to. When I press Sign Out the sign out option simply flashes grey and then nothing happens. I am unable to stream any music, I can only listen to music that is actually on my device. Very frustrating. May as well cancel.

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Aug 26, 2015 9:00 AM in response to soundinator

I saw the notification for your post right after I posted mine. So I did what you suggested (sign out immediately after a reboot) and that did allow me to sign out and back in. It is working now, but it always does for a bit after a reboot. So will see if the sign out/in helped anything and lets it keep working. Thanks for suggestion!

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Aug 26, 2015 11:06 AM in response to mjparme

Well, that didn't last long. It started trippin' again and no amount of reboots could fix it.


Anyway, I resorted to logging out then back in again. Now it's just taking a long time for all of the album art to appear again but otherwise everything works. One thing I didn't read in those that were able to log out and back in again is that, well at least for me, you have to go Settings > Music and make sure "iCloud Library" is enabled. When I logged back in I was about to have a heart attack when I saw that all of my playlists were gone!!


I can only hope this is a permanent fix. Kinda tired, frustrated by everything. During all the reboot dancing I've been doing with my iPhone this morning my iPad never skipped a beat. Same for iTunes on my MacBook. Apple Music has worked flawlessly the entire time.


Oh well. Praying that iOS 9, out in a couple weeks, will address this and some of the other UI/UX issues of Apple Music.

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Aug 26, 2015 11:32 AM in response to arthur1979

I have been getting the same behavior lately. I play music for about 1-2 hours, I stop or pause the music, I go to resume playing it.. no sound, I wait approximately 2 minutes and it prompts me to sign up for Apple Music. This is very unnerving behavior, if my account is being fumbled, what's to say my credit card information isn't being fumbled or other personal information about myself.


Unrelated issue but my playlists haven't updated for nearly a week, I add music but they don't go into the playlists, I have been through hours/days of troubleshooting.


I'm afraid I really cant trust this music service, it has way to many faults, I will not be paying for it once my trial period is over. Google Play music has less features, like the ability to share playlists etc. but the fundamentals like 'playing music' and 'creating playlists' actually work, so I have decided to return to G Play Music.


Love the phones, love the phone OS - to bad the Music Service didn't pan out.

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