'Show Music Available Offline' switch does not work

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'Show Music Available Offline' switch does not work

When I open My Music, it lists all of the 4000+ songs/albums/artists that I have ever purchased from iTunes. I don't want to have to search through them all when I want to listen to music I have downloaded for offline use. I've seen it suggested that I turn on the toggle switch that says Show Music Available Offline, but nothing changes when I turn it on; it stills shows all 4,000+ songs.

Is there a way to show ONLY the songs I have downloaded or added from my Library? Or am I forced to search through every single purchase I have ever made to find a single song?

iPhone 6 with iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 17, 2015 5:29 PM

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Sep 12, 2016 8:05 AM in response to titusp

Yes, this is an exceedingly stupid problem with music on the iPhone. Why would Apple include a setting that says it will only show music that is available offline, but when you use that setting it does NOT show only music that is available offline? I have no idea, but I did find out how to fix the problem. If you have thousands of songs though, this is going to be a very tedious way to fix it since you have to go into iTunes, access your purchased page under the "account" menu and hover your pointer over each song so that an "x" button appears to its left, then click the "x" button to hide each individual purchase one by one. Good luck!

Complete instructions are available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201322

And let's just say that this method of hiding music is not one anyone would just stumble upon intuitively using their iPhone.

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