iTunes match is automatically downloading songs to phone

The problem has returned after adding new music to the library. Damnit Apple, please fix it! It makes the product useless!

After some very annoying testing / troubleshooting, I was able to get iCloud Music Library to stop automatically downloading all of my uploaded / matched music to my iPhone by going to Settings and completely signing out of iCloud on my device. I have left iCloud Music Library enabled under Settings > Music so I can still use my iCloud Music Library with Apple Music / iTunes. But for some reason, this bug won't stop unless you sign out of iCloud in your device Settings. Granted, this work around won't be that great for people who use iCloud a lot but, for anyone else, this is the only thing I've found that will STOP THE MADNESS!!

i'm having the same problem but i've a workaround which is working fine for me. before adding music to itunes from my hdd for example i disable in my iphone under music setting the icloud libary. after the music is uploaded in the cloud i enable it again and this was it. of course i've to download the playlists, track whatever again but for me it isn't such a big drama cos i'm always using only one dynamic playlist on my phone. i'm doing this once per month.

I so hope with all the betas that this will be fixed in iOS9.3!

I just found this thread after posting the same issue in a new question. Glad I'm not the only one!!

Same issue here. This download-until-the-phone-fills up has happened to me 3 times now. Once after an iOS update, once after I rebuilt my itunes library on the master machine, and now after the iOS 9.3 update. It is insanely frustrating -- the phone is rendered useless for hours until it fills up and errors out, as everything becomes so unstable and slow. It turns into a toaster from all the processing. If you happen to be on metered-internet or cellular get ready for 10s of gigabytes of data usage. This is potentially a very expensive bug for some. The remedies all involve destroying and effectively rebuilding your phone's music library and potentially all iCloud data. This all typically occupies hours of my time to return to a usable phone.

In addition to the "total" scenario, all music in my library is constantly "double" downloading. No fix I've found for this other than just not storing anything on the phone itself, which really limits the usefulness of this.

This is one of the worst bugs I've ever encountered in consumer software. Unbelievable.

Updated two devices (iPhone 6 and iPad Air) to iOS 9.3 and immediately dropped a few new albums into iTunes on my Mac to see what happened. So far - the 50 new tracks I introduced to iTuses are NOT DOWNLOADING to my two devices. They are available for streaming in each devices as should be the case with iTunes Match.

FIngers crossed... Can't believe how long it's been since I've been able to add new music to iTunes...

Same here! I tried it with the option to auto download OFF and nothing downloaded to my phone. I tried a few with the option ON and they downloaded. Turned the option OFF again and dropped in about 200 songs, all available to stream, but nothing downloaded to my phone. So far so good!!

Thanks for the update bluehz and bull350! I haven't had time to test this yet but will this weekend.

12 hours later and so far so good, oddly one single song from the approx 200 I uploaded has auto downloaded to one of my two devices. No explanation and that was the only one.

One thing I've been thinking about is "checked" songs and "unchecked" songs and the setting to sync/not sync checked songs and "over the air sync" via the same network. Maybe check those settings? It might be possible that one song sync'd from the checked songs selection?

I usually just uncheck everything as soon as I import it even though I haven't selected that option. Just me being a little retentive about them being checked 🙂

Also, nearly 12 hours later for me as well and nothing had downloaded to my phone!!

I ripped some CDs last weekend before the ios9.3 update.

So far the iPad hasn't downloaded any unwanted songs.

I'm almost prepared to take the plunge at turn on iCloud music library on the iPhone too!

What really ticks me off is the lack of confirmation by Apple that this WAS/IS a real problem and was/is being worked on or even FIXED. Heck they list everything else in their data sheets when they release new OS - why not this? Is it shame to admit, I just don't get it and don't find it to be very goo business practice.

Agreed, they could communicate better. I did see this in the notes before I upgraded to 9.3:

"Fixes an issue that enabled overriding restrictions applied to cellular data toggle"

I was hoping that this was a sideways shot at fixing the issue. Sort of cryptic, and not really the issue, but round about involved maybe?? Not sure if it was, but it's no longer occurring for me...

Unfortunately I still have the problem. The automatic download kinda worked for me in 9.2.1 because every new album I added through iTunes is also wanted to download on iPhone (4s). But after update to 9.3 is redownloads about 20 albums I added a couple of weeks ago. Not to big of a problem I thought, because after downloading I just could delete them again and the problem should have been sold, but....it do is a problem because the downloads seem to keep hanging and do NOT download, only making my battery drain like **** en making the iPhone as slow as a turtle 😟. It also restarts every 30 minutes because the iPhone can't handle all the action on it's resources. And after restart, I first have to unlock to make Wifi working again. So I have to check every 30 minutes if my phone hasn't restarted yet.

iTunes Match is pretty useless for me now. I disables the cloud library setting en logout of the apple account in the music app. Now I still have the already downloaded music on my iPhone and it stopped downloading, but i can't use iTunes Match anymore....So disappointing.....