Unmerging Music Library

My sister recently purchased the apple music family plan in order to share it with me. In creating a family and trying to get apple music on my iPhone, nothing would work. Finally, I decided to sign out of my apple ID in the iTunes tab in settings and sign in with my sister's apple ID. This resulted in our music libraries merging, but did give my access to apple music. Me and my sister didn't like the merged libraries so I signed out of her apple ID on my phone and signed in with my apple ID on my phone and my library returned to normal, but her library is still merged. I've tried signing out of iTunes and iCloud which removes my music but also removes all of her playlists and all of her apple music. When she signs back into iCloud, there is no change, but when she signs back into iTunes, the merged library returns. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to return her library to how it was? Or at least undmerge the libraries. Thanks!

Posted on May 2, 2016 11:05 PM

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May 4, 2016 7:40 AM in response to juliaaabee

Hey juliaaabee,
I understand that you and your sister are attempting to setup Apple Music Family Membership and have run into some issue. Let's see if we can get that sorted out.
The reason this happened was because you signed in with your sister's Apple ID in iTunes. Because Apple Music requires iCloud Music Library, it merged the content together that was in your iTunes library. When you signed out, it removed the content all together and then brought back yours when you signed back in with your Apple ID. The only way to fix that would be for your sister to simply delete the content that she does not want. Take a look at the first article below to go over how to do that.
Delete songs and music videos from your iCloud Music Library
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201323

To make sure that you get this setup correctly, take a look at the next article below to go over how to setup Family Sharing first and then extend the invitation to either you to then enjoy Apple Music.
Apple Music and Family Sharing
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201088

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