apple music offline mode

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smeng1976 Author

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apple music offline mode

I think the answer to my question is no, but just in case, I figured I'd ask it here. As a Beats subscriber, in the app, there was a button I could hit to set the app itself into offline mode, without having to put my whole phone into airplane mode. And so I could play my downloaded music and simultaneously send and receive texts, surf the web etc.

I haven't been able to identify an offline button in the apple music app yet. The only way I can figure out to make it play my downloaded music is to put the phone into airplane mode, thereby rendering it useless for anything else. If I don't put it in airplane mode, it will stream the music, even if it's been downloaded to the phone. I saw at least one or two people discussing that happening to them too.

I really, really would like to see that feature here. I listen to a lot of music, and do not want to go over my monthly data limit. But I want to be able to listen to my downloaded music, while also still using my phone to do all the things that I do online. Beats had that simple offline toggle button in their app, and I can't believe it's not in the apple music app. I'm super disappointed by that. Unless someone has found that somewhere, and can enlighten me?

Thanks!

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 22, 2015 6:14 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 22, 2015 7:42 PM in response to smeng1976

Hope this can help. When you add music from Apple Music, the streaming service, that item(s) remains in the cloud and streams during play. However, you can tap the ellipses (...) next to the item(s) you've added and choose "Make Available Offline". This will place the item(s) on your device. To be sure you can go to My Music (on the bottom of the app) and tap either the Library tab or Playlists tab, and underneath the Recently Added items at the top, tap on the red letters (this may say Artists, All Playlists, or the like) and you'll see a pop up menu appear where you'll find at the very bottom of that list "Show Music Available Offline" and tap the round button which will turn this on and turn green. Now you will only have access to the items stored on your device. You should also see a little phone icon appear on the far left side of a song (it's really tiny) indicating the same when viewing songs. This way you won't be eating into your data and you won't need to put your phone in Airplane Mode. If you make your items available offline while on wifi,of course, that's a bonus. Note that even when streaming, the song is cashed to the device, so in theory, if you play the same song 101 times, only the first play will technically eat up your data. But there's no way to know this for sure, so making the items available offline is the way to go.

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Answer 2

Skyyton3

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Jul 22, 2015 8:56 PM in response to smeng1976

In "My Music", there is a dropdown right below "Recently Added". Click that and go to the bottom and turn on the "Music Available Offline". Then you will only play the music on your device.

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