Make all Apple Music songs available offline listening just one click

What they said.

This did not work for me at all. I watched iTunes as it said it was copying all 2100 of my songs to my phone. I have celluar data for music turned off because I dont want to burn data downloading songs I've already supposedly added to my device.

The second I leave my wifi network non of my songs are available! They're all listed but greyed out. I should have to manually make them all available offline.

This move is ridiculous. I agree Apple dropped the ball on this one.

It is my understanding to get all music available for offline use, on iTunes on your computer, create a smart playlist (iCloud Status) is (Apple Music) - then simply right click on the playlist and make available for offline use. BOOM. Live updates and all.

thank you

The easiest way to get all your music IF IT IS ON YOUR COMPUTER IN ITUNES is to turn off iCloud Music on the iPhone. Disconnect and re-connect to iTunes and then SYNC. it should sync everything that is on your iTunes library on your computer to the phone. After that you can turn on iCloud music again and when you add new music from the apple music store select "make available offline" to add it to your device.

If anyone wants to make all their Apple music available OFFLINE on their computer; select "My Music" tab; then from "Edit" dropdown "Select All"; then right click anywhere in the selected text and chose "Make Available Offline". This downloads all your songs from the Cloud.

no option on my computer to "make available offline"

This is exactly what you need to do...worked perfectly. The only downside is that I had to delete and re-sync my music - not a huge deal since I'm just setting up my new phone now, but it would have been nice to know before I sat through the first 15-minute (and useless) sync.

Thanks for the info! I read this thread while waiting for Apple support to help over the phone...they told me I'd have to do it song by song.

thanks seemed to work

Tried this but upon selecting merge all it did is duplicate my playlists, and add a duplicate on the cloud as well.

This does not really solve the issue. First, you would have to select everything you want in that playlist, which may not be everything you have on your library, this would be a tedious and boring job, duplicating probably years of curated playlists.

Secondly, you cannot, of course, add to the smart playlist by dragging and dropping or by clicking add to playlist, so you are limited to whatever choice you set which may not include a new item you may have added as it would not have been part of the original criteria (a new artists, a new album, etc)

Trying to just make a playlist offline seems to be ignored by my iPod Touch 6th gen, no amount of sync between itunes and the iPod moves the songs, if iCloud music is turned on on the device, it appears to ignore iTunes changes when it comes to music and wired connection.

Creating a new playlist and dragging the contents of one of my old playlists to it (in case there is something dodgy with the old playlist, I don't know, this has gotten more and more mysterious with time) iTunes notifies me that it cannot make the new playlist icloud enabled because it has files types that are not allowed, I read this as it contains apple music songs as well (it only has music files)

If I create a new playlist, not a smart playlist, the option to make available offline is not there.

In short, it is a mess of inconsistencies to get your music offline, I am still trying 2 weeks after moving to an iPod Touch so I could use my Apple Music subscription. Downloading from the device via wifi is slow, chaotic and broken, with inconsistent download numbers, automatic non-user triggered downloads, inconsistent display of offline icon on songs and constant 'unable to download song at this time' message, a mess...Google Music looks like an inviting alternative, got it on one of my old android phones, just to see if it was an alternative, after uploading my music library (which is 15,000 files but Google swallowed it up in just under 3 hours) I was able to replicate some playlists (it even took the playlist information from itunes) and download a 2600 songs playlist in an hour. I have trying to download 257 files on my ipod touch for a week now! and I have a fiber connection with 100mbp.

Sad, it used to just work

thank you !!!

If you go into your music library, on your computer, and set it so that it is displaying songs (not albums, or genres, etc.) all you have to do is click the first song, then scroll down to the last, hold shif,t and at this point you should have all your songs highlighted. Now all you have to do is a secondary click on the highlighted songs and a menu will pop up adjacent to your cursor, there will be an option" make available offline".click it. Presto, you have dowloaded all your songs off iCloud and onto your computer, now you just have to sync with your iPhone and you're ready to go, hope this was helpful.

If you go into your music library, on your computer, and set it so that it is displaying songs (not albums, or genres, etc.) all you have to do is click the first song, then scroll down to the last, hold shif,t and at this point you should have all your songs highlighted. Now all you have to do is a secondary click on the highlighted songs and a menu will pop up adjacent to your cursor, there will be an option" make available offline".click it. Presto, you have dowloaded all your songs off iCloud and onto your computer, now you just have to sync with your iPhone and you're ready to go, hope this was helpful

Oh dear Lord, thank you QZC!

Got everything I needed from you, in this labyrinth. Such a common question and a very simple answer you provided.

Exactly what is needed. I noticed a couple of child threads from your answer as well. Totally worked. 🙂