Music in iOS 10 - Local Music Only

Does anyone know how to change the default library in the iOS 10 music app to be my local music instead of the cloud? In iOS 9 you could select to only show music stored on your iPhone, I can't find this setting in the new music app.


Thanks!

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 6:46 PM

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Sep 14, 2016 6:22 AM in response to BeachNanny

I dont see that option when I choose "edit", I am able to show/hide different sections and sort them, but not change which library is the default. I still have to tap "Downloaded Music" to get to the music on my device. Also, if I hide the Artist, Album, and Songs sections on the Cloud Library it also hides them from the Downloaded Music Section.


I don't use any of this cloud BS and under iOS 9 I could just turn it all off but can't seem to do so under iOS 10.

Oct 12, 2016 9:22 PM in response to lucid79

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.

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Music in iOS 10 - Local Music Only

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