apple music is draining my iphone storage

I know it's an old thread but it needs to be addressed.

1) how is this solved? It's not. It was just ignored.

2) the user wants to be able to use their space and are not able to do it since the iPhone is using it instead.

3) probably not very helpful to tell a user to just deal with it. The issue is how Apple has coded the software and this issue really needs to get fixed.

This is making the iPhone incorrectly read the amount of data available and used, not to mention the amount of data used that is not supposed to be there. The reason to have music on iCloud is to NOT have it on the iPhone.

I have the very problem and the solution given bellow doesnt do the trick. For example, apps like whatsapp wont accept any messages because it keeps telling me that there isnt enough memory. The problem is apple music and it keeps storing music in my phone (even though I didnt download anything). I think apple music is just not doing its job. I am trying it for 3 months but so far I am thinking this isnt working for me. And of course, apple is yet to address the problem.

Unless you are specifically telling iTunes to store your music locally for offline use, you should not have storage issues. iTunes may be temporarily storing music you've played in it's cache so it won't have to re-download in case you want to hear it again, but that is not something you can manage. If another process on your phone actually needs that space, iTunes will clear that data from cache and free up the space.

Unless you've actually got a problem, just let it do it's thing and stay out of the way.

Apple music stores all sorts of metadata from your itunes library. I've got over 30000 songs and when it synced my playlists and music to the icloud, it added about 3gb of data to my phone....I have nothing downloaded for offline play. The metadata includes album art, playlists, song information. To resolve this, I created a new itunes library with just a subset of my entire music catalog. This is a horrible work around. I would prefer to tell itunes what songs to include in the icloud library and which not to. I'm also worried that as I add new apple music playlists and apple music songs and albums to my list, the size of the metadata will start to creep up again. If they just made an iphone 6s that was between 16 and 64 gb! Maybe next year.