Can we hide iCloud music on iPhone running ios 11.2?

Hey,

I've been having the same issue. In fact I'm on a chat with support trying to explain it to them.

I have a solution. Since the music is not saved locally on the phone, you can delete it off your phone. You can always re-download it later for free, since you bought it, from the itunes store. Let Me explain.

I ran a test. I deleted all the downloaded music off my phone to just expose the icloud downloads. There are no songs physically on my phone right now. I started to delete one icloud song off my phone and noticed it was still playable in my library on my computer. The 'downloaded music' tab will disappear when you clear everything. You can re-sync all your downloaded content later. Be sure to have apple music toggled off in settings. It would help to have 'use cellular data' also toggled off.

Here's what you do, you take a song that has the icloud tab next to it. Hold it down and press 'delete from library'. It will disappear. Try it first with just one song notice your computer's library is fine. I know it's time consuming that you manually do each one (its faster by deleting albums), but it won't clutter your library. (I would do this method in the past to not show the parental ratings on my phone as I could hide the 'E' on itunes, and re-download from my computer).

Let me know how it turns out.

This is coming from someone at Apple Genius, "when you delete something from your iPhone it works separately from the iTunes on the computer so you will have no worries about that music being affected."

Thanks for your answer. Saves me a bit of searching time.

As to the wasting data, you can go to Settings —> Cellular, scroll down a bit, and turn off the cellular connection for Music. I hope that’s helpful.

Hello there,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities, I'll do my best to help you hide your Apple Music/iCloud purchased Music on your iPhone 6 running iOS 11.0.2

On your iPhone navigate to Settings > Apple Music > Show Apple Music (flip switch to Off position) and if you want to cancel your Apple Music subscription (which will delete all purchased media and music videos)

If you are running iOS 10.3 or iOS 11:

Settings > [your name] > iTunes & App Stores > [your email address] > View Apple ID > Manage Subscriptions

If you are running iOS 10.2 or ealier:

Settings > iTunes & App Stores > [your email address] > View Apple ID > Manage Subscriptions

Give me a shout if you need more help

- Vis

➕ Support Comunities

Thanks for the info. I'm pretty disappointed with the situation, sigh.

If all you are wanting to do is no show Apple Music in the music app there is a slight change in the instructions you received, go to Settings > Music > Show Apple Music and turn it off. It sounds like that is what you are trying to do rather than cancel your Apple Music subscription.

I already stated I’m running iOS 11. Updated last night. iCloud appears to be “on” but there’s no tag for music or anything. I have tried everything I can think of with this update. There appears to be no way to hide this music.

I’m running 11.0; followed your instructions but there IS no “manage subscriptions” button. I need this music invisible please asap

I have never had an Apple Music subscription at all. I’m just talking about cloud music

I am not following you, what cloud music do you have if you don't have Apple Music or iTunes Match?

If you are referring to your iCloud library, look further down on the same settings page and turn off iCloud Music Library.

Where though? It’s music that is not currently synced to my phone.

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What version of iOS are you running? Are you using iCloud?

When you go to iCloud > iTunes & App Stores it doesn't have Music under automatic downloads?