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ios10 - Hide/show purchased music

Ever since I updated to ios10 yesterday, my music list has been flooded with undownloaded purchases.


How do I hide these? I can't find the setting anymore. I have checked General>..., iTunes & App Store>..., Music>...


Where is the setting to hide purchases anymore???


Thanks for any help!



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iPhone 6, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 7:12 AM

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Sep 16, 2016 3:13 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Correct, it's not a sufficient replacement option because in iOS9 we had this -

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This option is not just a category, it entirely hid previously purchased music from the device.


This meant that if you were using a USB device to play (such as USB car stereo for one example) that device would NOT try to play the previously purchased (i.e. still in the cloud) music because it couldn't see them at all.


As it stands now, there are workarounds but NOTHING that matches this previously available option.

You can't even make the Downloaded Music category the default.

Sep 17, 2016 3:25 PM in response to Winston Churchill

The real issue here is that the "Only Downloaded Music" option as pictured above has been removed from iOS10 and thus you cannot easily hide previously purchased music from your device library entirely.


The immediate work around for those wanting to achieve this is to hide any purchased music you don't want to see from your account entirely, they then become invisible to your device library Hide and unhide iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store purchases - Apple Support


Long term the best hope for those who would like such a feature reinstated is to provide Apple Feedback.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Sep 18, 2016 12:51 PM in response to ks-ny

Unfortunately, the only fix I found was to log out of your itunes account which doesn't work well if you want updates. I also notice that if you log back in, Apple music automatically creates a "Purchased Music" playlist for you. I've turned apple music off multiple times and it randomly gets turned back on (probably through logging in my itunes account).

Sep 21, 2016 8:44 AM in response to ks-ny

This is so extremely annoying. I've spent the past day googling a fix to no avail. The ONLY possible solution is to login to iTunes and manually hide EVERY single item individually from appearing in your library, otherwise upon upgrading to iOS10 all songs from your purchase history are automatically included in your Apple Music library and there is no way to get them out.


There isn't even an option in the app to delete multiple songs/entire library at once. It requires you to tediously go through each album or song individually. Mind blowing.


Apple needs to fix this. Score another one for Spotify.

Sep 21, 2016 1:53 PM in response to ks-ny

So it seems if I go to the downloaded music folder I can then select albums, this gives me the list of albums only on my phone. I'm sure this wasn't available upon ios10 release though I'm not sure how or if it updated.


only problem remains is when I plug into my car stereo (kenwood "made for iPhone") it still shows every song in my iTunes account not just songs in my phone.

Sep 21, 2016 2:19 PM in response to Ssbbdisappointed

So it seems if I go to the downloaded music folder I can then select albums, this gives me the list of albums only on my phone. I'm sure this wasn't available upon ios10 release

It was

only problem remains is when I plug into my car stereo (kenwood "made for iPhone") it still shows every song in my iTunes account not just songs in my phone.

Ask Kenwood when they will be updating their software.

Sep 21, 2016 6:32 PM in response to ks-ny

I wish someone could unsolve this, because it's completely unsolved. I've been googling none stop since finding out that the easy little switch wasn't there and that songs I purchased when I was eleven and haven't listened to in years might come up on shuffle and download and use my data. I don't want to see them. I don't even want a lot of them anymore, but some I do want, just not on my phone!!!

It seems petty, but I'm seriously livid. At least I have another app I can listen to the music I actually want to listen to through.


Ah, Apple, making the reason I have an iPhone for completely useless.

ios10 - Hide/show purchased music

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