iTunes match is automatically downloading songs to phone

iTunes match is automatically downloading all songs to my iPhone once they have been matched/uploaded. I don't see any settings to stop this and only download specified tracks. Any ideas?

iPhone 6, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Dec 10, 2015 7:20 AM

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Jan 18, 2016 7:23 AM in response to tysonrb

I found something that has fixed it for me (at least so far...)

I have been having seeing this issue for a few weeks, and it has burnt a hole in my data plan, so I turned off cellular data for Apple Music while I investigated the problem. Here is what I think is causing the issue for me:


Along the bottom of the screen, go to "Connect" (the symbol looks like "@")

I discovered that I was following hundreds of Artists because I had "Automatically follow artists whose music I download" turned ON...

I changed this setting to OFF, and "unfollowed" all of the listed artists.

I did this this routing several times as new artists kept popping up....


Now that this list is clear, I have had nearly a week of no unwanted music music appearing on my iPhone.


It works for me - I hope it works for you....

Good luck

Jan 18, 2016 11:33 AM in response to INGLESRA

My "solution" is similar. I returned to using Plex. It isn't perfect, but it mostly works, and their dev team communicates better than Apple.


This, and other issues I've had with Apple software lately have made me realize just how awful Apple is at communication and responding to user feedback. I don't think I want to be an Apple customer anymore.

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