How to download entire music library on iOS devices?

There is a work around you could do. On iTunes with your computer make a new smart playlist called entire library. Set the rules. Year is greater than 1000. and click okay! Then just navigate to that playlist on your iPhone and click download!

So I have a playlist like this and my phone regularly stumbles to do this. It will freeze and give me errors. Thoughts?

I was told by Apple that this is not uncommon and that I shouldn't make playlists larger than 100 songs.

This isn't about Apple Music (streaming service) this is about my iTunes Library of *purchased songs* still not making it onto my phone. I go a lot of places without internet. Airplanes. National Parks. Rural areas. Offshore sailing. I want my songs with me. I don't want tap a song on my phone and have it tell me I have to connect to the internet to hear it.

I bought an iPhone with the largest available amount of storage so I can keep all my stuff with me at all times. I expect to be able to use it all. This situation is unacceptable.

Hi!
I have iPod 5th with iOS 9.3.5.
I used a little trick to solve this problem. You should open iTunes on your PC and create new Smart playlist. Here you see some options. Add a single rule which check if the iCloud status is equal to Apple Music.

You should see smth like 'iCloud status is Apple Music' under 'Match following rule'.

Do not forget to tick 'Live Updating Option' here.

And now save playlist and wait your device to sync and show up this playlist... Then You select this playlist on your device and tap cloud which means 'make available offline'. After that your device should download all music and all music which you add in future will start downloading immediately!

I am too late 😀 sorry

Apparently a lot of my music was migrated to the cloud. Even stuff I ripped off CDs. I have figured out how to pull that down (stupid I have to do that). I will sync my phone and see if it all makes it.

The work-around I found was to create a smart playlist on iTunes and have all music added to the playlist that was added after 1922 (or some other impossible long-ago date where you could not have possibly added music prior to.) then sync that playlist. Since it is smart if will auto-add all new music to your library / auto-delete items you remove and continue to sync.

Easy if you own iTunes on a Mac or PC.

Simply make sure that you are logged into Apple Music in iTunes, and then create a new playlist. Label this “All Music,” or whatever else you would like. Now go to your full song list, in the sidebar underneath the Library header. Use CMD-A on Mac or CTRL-A on PC, and drag your entire library into that playlist. Now you should be able to go into the Music app on your iDevice, and should see the new playlist. This make take a few minutes to appear depending on the size of your library. After you can access it, simply add it to your library if you have automatic downloads enabled, and it should start the process. If not, just tap the manual download button that will appear in the same location the add button was. Feel free to delete the playlist from your library after use, as this will not remove the songs that you have downloaded.

Cheers!

Actually you can download your entire music library onto your device. On your device, go to Settings, Music and turn off iCloud Music Library. You can do this while your phone is or is not plugged into the computer. If your phone isn't plugged into the computer, plug it in, select your device and highlight Music in the upper left hand corner (should be directly under Summary). You then have the option to sync your entire music library, videos, and voice memos. After all your music is downloaded onto your device, go back into your device settings and turn back on iCloud Music Library. This will ensure that all your music will sync across your devices in the future after downloading your library to your device.

Actually you can download your entire music library onto your device. On your device, go to Settings, Music and turn off iCloud Music Library. You can do this while your phone is or is not plugged into the computer. If your phone isn't plugged into the computer, plug it in, select your device and highlight Music in the upper left hand corner (should be directly under Summary). You then have the option to sync your entire music library, videos, and voice memos. After all your music is downloaded onto your device, go back into your device settings and turn back on iCloud Music Library. This will ensure that all your music will sync across your devices in the future after downloading your library to your device.

When you go back to turn on your iCloud Music Library back on, it will tell you that it will erase your music off your device (all the music you just sync'd) but it doesn't. Your music will still be on your device. At least this is how it has been on my last two iPhone's without fail (iPhone 7Plus and iPhone X). I hope this helps.

Hello Stark_Hu,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

If I understand your post correctly, you are a member of Apple Music, and you'd like to download all of your music to your iPhone to listen offline. For help with this process please follow through the steps below.

Download songs, albums, and playlists to listen to offline

You can download songs, albums, or playlists to your device so that you can listen to them when you're not connected to the Internet.* You must download songs, albums, or playlists on each device that you want to use for offline listening.

*You can download music on up to 10 devices. These songs are accessible only during your Apple Music membership.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. In the Music app, find the item that you want to download.
2. Tap the More Options icon to the right of the song, album, or playlist name.
3. Tap the Download icon to the right of the item's artwork. If you see a instead of the download icon, the item isn't in your iCloud Music Library. Tap the to add the item to My Music, then tap the download icon to download the item to your device.

Songs and albums appear under My Music > Library. Playlists appear under My Music > Playlists.

On your Mac or PC

1. In iTunes, find the item that you want to download in the My Music or Playlists tab. You can't download items to listen to offline from the iTunes Store.
2. Click the cloud icon to the right of the song's name, on the album cover, or to the right of the playlist's name.

Songs and albums appear under the My Music tab. Playlists appear in the Playlists tab, under Apple Music Playlists in the sidebar.

View just songs, albums, and playlists that you downloaded to your device

• iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch: In the My Music tab, tap Library. Then tap any of the different views (Artists, Albums, etc.), and turn on Only Offline Music. A message that says "Showing only music on this [device]. Show All Music." appears at the top of the screen. Tap Show All Music to see all of your music.
• Mac: In iTunes, from the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose View > Only Offline Music. A message that says "Showing only music on this computer. Show all music." appears at the top of the screen. Click "Show all music" to see all of your music.
• Windows: Hold down the Control and B keys on your keyboard to open the iTunes menu bar. Choose View > Only Offline Music. A message that says "Showing only music on this computer. Show all music." appears at the top of the screen. Click "Show all music" to see all of your music.

When you view an item that you've downloaded to your device, you'll see an offline icon near it, but its exact location varies. For example:

• If you download an entire album or playlist, the offline icon appears when you're looking at the album or playlist in My Music. You'll also see an offline icon when you view a compilation, but not when you view specific genres, artists, or composers.
• If you download a song, the offline icon appears to the right of each song title.
• If you download songs from an album, but not the entire album, the offline icon appears to the right of just the songs that you downloaded.

Add music from the Apple Music catalog to your library on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC

Cheers.

Hi,

So from what I understand it isn't possible to download your entire Apple Music Library on to your iPhone in one step.

Instead you have to do it album by album, you cant even do it for specific artists.

This seems like a ridiculously daunting task for anyone who has a massive library.

While I understand that the cloud feature from Apple Music is great for people who stream, for travelers like me who aren't connected to the internet all the times eg. foreign countries/airplanes its a real pain.

The whole point of having a phone with large storage space is that you can keep all your media with you.

I hope Apple realizes that they have a sizeable clientele that would like to see a "Download entire library to this device" feature.

Yes, please make a "download entire library" button!! So ridiculous that every time you get a new phone you have to manually download each and every album! I thought Apple Music was supposed to make things easier..

Do you still have your music on iTunes.