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I can't listen to purchased music without wifi

I have recently downloaded IOS 8.4, and ever since downloading IOS 8.3 I have not been able to listen to music without WiFi. It either does not show up or it says this when I press play "You need a wifi connection to listen to songs". This has been annoying since I bought the music to listen to it offline! I would not have bought it otherwise since things like YouTube exist. Is this an issue and if so, could you maybe say anyway of fixing it? I know it hasn't been like this forever, because I used to listen to music using the SAME device on IOS 8.1 on the bus. Is this a new thing in the update?

iPad Mini, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 8, 2015 8:35 PM

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DREWAJW

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Posted on Feb 14, 2016 10:37 PM

Hi! I have found a solution!

FIrst, connect to wifi, and go into your iTunes app. On the bottom of the screen you will see 3 dots for "more". You will see a list of Music, TV Shows etc. Select Music, then select purchased. You will see all your music appear. On the top of the list you can select "Recent Purchases". Once you select that it will take you to the list of all the music you have purchases either on or off your phone. At the top right corner, select "Download All". Immediately your phone will start downloading each track to your phone. This will take a while so do its when you have a lot of time to kill while connected to wifi. This will enable your phone to download all your tracks at once without having to do it manually, one by one. Hope this helps, it worked for me after I got my new phone and transferred everything on my iCloud from my old phone. None of my music would play unless connected to wifi, so I did this!

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Aug 28, 2016 8:28 PM in response to kharly85

Maybe there is a little cloud thingie with an arrow pointing down...aka download button. There was no make available offline for me, but there was the little fluffy cloud, and that seemed to do it for me.

ashivah

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Dec 23, 2016 1:01 AM in response to Sandra Andina1

I agree. We should not have to do ANYTHING at all. All we should do is choose a playlist and then listen to the music. Some incompetent at Apple has made a big blue OR this is some deliberate ploy on their behalf. It is this sort of thing that is making me move all my songs over to Android. If the Apple Corporation actually employed qualified marketers, they'd realise that their success is in pleasing their customers, not trying to control them. There are many other issues as well, such as continually attempting to link me up with some semi-literate, escapee from the 17th Century rapper whose vocabulary consists of only four letter words. I have even stopped listening to iTunes on my PC for the first time ever and am using other systems. Well done Apple.

Fofer

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Jul 9, 2015 1:23 AM in response to AshleeSwag

This is the forum for "Apple Music on Mac" threads. You want "Apple Music on iOS" instead.

Jul 20, 2015 3:19 AM in response to Izunaa

This actually did help me. I did a first try by downloading a song and then turning of wi-fi and it did work 🙂 Thank you so much!

Nov 12, 2015 7:41 AM in response to asn1983

Thank you so much, this did the trick!!

Mar 11, 2016 10:08 AM in response to DREWAJW

Thanks for the easy step by step instructions, it worked! 🙂

lhouska

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Apr 26, 2016 12:32 PM in response to DREWAJW

Thank you for this answer!!! 🙂 Made my day.

May 1, 2016 11:33 AM in response to DREWAJW

Thank you for these great instructions. I followed them and easily fixed this problem. Thank you for taking the time to post your helpful advice!

RAL999

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Aug 19, 2016 12:31 PM in response to Izunaa

On iOS 9 there is a cloud symbol at the top of the playlist so you can download all the tracks. But it's very slow. asn1983's solution worked for me

Sep 21, 2016 9:14 PM in response to DREWAJW

You sir, are a bloody legend!! This has been so frustrating and now all fixed 🙂

lotus007

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Sep 27, 2016 9:21 AM in response to DREWAJW

Very helpful indeed many tks!!

Babs1950

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Jul 14, 2017 4:37 PM in response to DREWAJW

Yes! This has driven me mad as I'm taking a trip out of the county and need to access my music without using wi if or cellular!! Thank you sooooo much

Sep 16, 2017 5:18 PM in response to DREWAJW

Thanks so much for the help!

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