Non-downloaded Apple music songs using phone storage

Hi


I do not use the "make available offline" feature as I thought that any songs added to a playlist will go to the cloud? Am I wrong in this assumption?


Basically any song I do add to a playlist is now using up storage on my phone even though I do not download any of them. Even when I removed all my photos to free up storage to see what happens, it has resulted in what I thought - Apple music using up that storage space.


Does anyone know how to fix this?


LL

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 7, 2015 10:06 PM

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Jul 8, 2015 5:47 AM in response to lushlili

Same thing here; When I add a track to My Music and play it from there, it adds to the number of locally stored Songs (iPhone Settings/General/About) and my remaining free storage capacity decreases. The track is not marked for offline availability and can't be played off-line despite taking up storage?

This is currently the only thing keeping me from switching from Spotify.

I'm using an iPhone 5. Same happens on my 3rd gen iPad.

Jul 8, 2015 5:58 AM in response to Eiser

Yes the songs increase in settings/general/about, but nothing is shown in settings/general/usage/manage storage ... And there is therefore no easy way to remove these 'temporary files'. I assume they are stored in case the tracks are repeated during play etc. and therefore save on re-download costs... But there needs to be an 'appropriate' method to clear them.

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