Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Removing music from IOS7 iphone/iDevice purchased off iTunes

The music app in IOS7 continues to be a piece of crap that ignores folders and makes you make local playlists or sync with your iTunes while at the same time, tries to move you away from iTunes to iCloud.  It's trash.

You may have songs for whatever reason, (belongs to someone else, got it free from the starbucks, whatever) that comes up in your phone.  You try to swipe it but there's no delete option like the other songs that you copied from your computer.

To remove it, you must:
  • In Settings, make sure "Show All Music" is on.
  • Play (replay* because you played it at some point to have this problem) the song and just fast forward to the end.
  • In the playlist on your screen, if you see a cloud icon, touch it to "complete" downloading the song to your device.
  • So at this point, the song is fully in your phone. You've enabled the cloud connection, played it all the way to the end to ensure full download.  Now you can swipe it to see the Delete option.
  • Delete the offending song.
  • In Settings, make sure "Show All Music" is off to get rid of the song name with the cloud icon from your list.