Sn0wyOwl13
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Q: How can I hide the list of songs that aren't synced to my phone?

I am hoping they aren't taking up storage space, as to play them without wifi they would have to be downloaded. However, I just want them off the phone entirely. Most of this would be holiday music. It's August and I'm the kind of person who doesn't listen to holiday music except during the holidays.

i tried turning of Apple Music, even though I didn't sign up for it. That didn't change. I looked in iCloud and there's no switch off for Music.

I have smart playlists on my phone that do not include certain songs (I've checked them in iTunes on my computer), but when I shuffle the playlist, I'll come across a song that wasn't included. I think the songs that aren't synced to my phone are being included.

iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.2, null

Posted on Aug 5, 2016 11:56 PM

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Q: How can I hide the list of songs that aren't synced to my phone?

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Aug 6, 2016 10:36 AM in response to Sn0wyOwl13
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    Aug 6, 2016 10:36 AM in response to Sn0wyOwl13

    You may need to make a regular playlist and not a smart playlist to do what you want.

  • by kb11c,

    kb11c kb11c Oct 12, 2016 9:30 PM in response to Sn0wyOwl13
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    Oct 12, 2016 9:30 PM in response to Sn0wyOwl13

    Your issue is also shared with many others.  It has been reported in a number of different ways.  The problem is that you have "ghost" songs in your music catalog that never go away and aren't actually present on the device.  My car now tries to play all my Christmas music that I uncheck when it's not the season.  Because they have entries and can potentially be played from the cloud, they remain part of the music catalog and show up to other devices that you connect to.

     

    The problem is that there used to be a setting to show "Only Downloaded Music".  This setting on prior versions of iOS kept another device that was connected to the iPhone from seeing the songs that were not really on the phone.  Not having this option breaks playback from other devices or results in unexpected operation.  From what I've experienced, it either causes playback of the songs not on the iPhone to fail if there is no cellular data connectivity, or it actually plays the song from the cloud, resulting in unexpected data usage.

     

    This is a bug.  It is not an issue with the device connected to the iPhone, as that device is simply given a catalog of songs by iOS that it treats as playable.  The suggestions in other threads about hiding purchases does not address this problem.  Apple needs to fix this and restore the ability to block the listing of songs that are not playable directly from the device.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 13, 2016 7:57 PM in response to Sn0wyOwl13
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    Oct 13, 2016 7:57 PM in response to Sn0wyOwl13

    ios10 - Hide/show purchased music