How to buy music on iPhone with iTunes

Well I feel like it is basically forcing me because if I want to purchase one song, the thing takes up the whole screen and I have the option to purchase the subscription or click on no thanks… If I click on no thanks, it takes me right back to the library or wherever and I can't purchase one song

I finally figured out how to download music like normal from iTunes by searching "iTunes Store" in the App Store (so I could leave a one star review) then tapping "open" which opened my usual iTunes Store app that I can't access normally anymore for some reason. Definitely plan to switch to Samsung for my next phone- and that's after being iPhone only for a good 6 years running. Someone at Apple needs to do some usability studies before they make these aweful decisions. HEY APPLE! YOU'RE LOSING LOYAL CUSTOMERS OVER HERE!

Thanks for the help! Apple does that because they are hoping you get so disgusted trying to figure it out you will just buy the subscription

I've been an apple user since apple 3G. Think I'm going to Droid myself. Besides, have had nothing but trouble with 7 anyway. THANKS APPLE... you are getting more and more greedy

THANK YOU!!!! I have spent at least two hours trying to figure this out. The iTunes app wouldn't come up when I searched for it in the App Store. Only when I typed in "iTunes Store" like you suggested, did I find it. Whew, I've owned iPhones since the very first one and always bragged to non-users how easy they were to navigate. I may have to retract that.

Thanks for saving my sanity today 👍-1F3FB;

I agree with kward and TDW. The day Apple Music launched I got so frustrated not being able to transfer, store, or even buy music the way I wanted, I left for spotify and pitty those who stayed. Came back just to purchase ONE song in order to use it conveniently for a file and you couldn't take my money. So frustrating...

Guess what? If I turn off Apple Music but keep my itunes app on, my phone (7+) says it cannot connect to iTunes Store. Hmmmmm. My only choice is to do the 3 month free trial which I don't want. I just wanted to buy one song but no. I am not liking Apple these days. They are playing dumb games with their costumers.

I followed the advice you were given but it doesn't work. If I turn off Apple music and then go through my itunes app which is on in settings, it says it cannot connect to iTunes Store.

Did anyone else find a way on the 7+ to get to the itunes store? I won't be buying apple anymore. I was going to get a new laptop but why? They are a closed looped system that now is trying to funnel everyone to the only option that the company wants you to do.

I don't see iTunes Store app I even tried to find it in the App Store. Good grief Apple is getting worse and worse. My heart is crushed! I have used Apple computers for nearly 30 years. All I want to do is buy some meditation music..

As far as I can tell this means on the iPhone you cannot use the Music App to buy music unless you want to sign up to a subscription service? Great if you need the amount of music that would be covered by the monthly subscriptoon but pointless if you're a more occasional user

Smart move Apple - put another way - if it's not broke don't fix it - or morph into a rip off

No, you do not need to use Apple Music at all.

On an iPhone you use the iTunes Store App to buy music, this has always been this way since the first iphone. Once bought it will automatically appear in the Music App for you to download and play.

You do not in any way need to subscribe to Apple Music if you do not want to.

I don't use Apple Music, and, and can buy and play my music just fine.

Scheisskopf wrote:

I tried following Apples directions but there is NO option for the iTunes Store there anymore! Getting pretty ticked off

Sure there is.

On a computer the iTunes Store option is at the top center,next to Library, "For You", "Browse" and Radio. The right most option is labeled "Store". Click on that.

On an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), you just need to open the iTunes Store App. The icon is now a white Star on a purple background.

This is still happening in 2017? Really Apple? What a cheesy marketing scheme for bilking hard earned cash from your customers. I’m moving to Samsung where life isn’t complicated and their not trying to roll me at every corner!! ***?

laneatta wrote:

I hate this new music app... give me my itunes account to freely buy the albumns I want and access to the thousands of dollars I habe spent in Itunes..

If you read this thread from the beginning, you'd know that what you want it still possible.

I had issues with buying directly from the Itunes store on my workstation, tried adding to wishlist, still no 'buy now' options.

The only way I could buy and download a song, was to gift it to myself. At least I have the song now but what an issue just to download one song.

Apple wants to force us to subscribe to its radio subscription service. They will be sued by a large class soon for bait and switch. We can no longer simply buy music on iTunes. I am done with Apple. It has become rotten.