As mentioned above, Apple Music streams are protected, which restricts you from listening to downloaded Apple Music tracks after canceling the subscription. To keep your downloaded Apple Music songs forever on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or other devices, you should learn how to record Apple Music songs.
Apple Music lets you add a song to your library as well as download it locally for offline listening. When you want to delete songs from it, you have two options – Remove and Delete from Library. Both are different things. One removes the downloaded song to free up space. Other deletes the added song from your music library. Let us know more and see the steps for both.
How to Delete Downloaded Music from Apple Music
You like a song in Apple Music. You tap on the plus (+) icon, and the song is added to your Library. Now, you can find it under Songs and play it using cellular data or Wi-Fi.
If you want to download this song for offline listening, you tap on the download icon. You can also enable automatic download that saves any song offline after you add it to your Library. Over time, this may take a lot of space on your iPhone. So let us see how to remove them.
How to Delete Individual Song on iPhone and iPad
- Open the Music app
- Tap on Library.
- Tap on Downloaded Music.
- Tap on Songs.
- Press on a song name and tap on Remove.
- Finally, tap on Remove Download.
Next, let us see how to remove all or multiple songs at once.
How to Delete Multiple or All Downloaded Songs from Settings App
- Open the iPhone Settings app
- Scroll down and tap on Music.
- Tap on Downloaded Music.
- Swipe right to left on All Songs or individual artists. Next, tap on Delete.
- You may also tap on Edit. Next, tap on the red minus button and then tap on Delete.
Following #1 and #2, the song is removed from your downloaded music. You can not listen to it offline now. However, the track itself still stays added to your Apple Music Library. Anytime you wish to download it again, tap on the download icon.
How to Delete Songs from Apple Music on Android
- Open the Apple Music app
- Tap on Library.
- Tap on Downloaded Music.
- Tap on Songs.
- Long press on a song and tap on Remove.
- Tap on REMOVE DOWNLOAD.
To re-download the song, go to Library → Songs → tap on the download button next to this song.
How to Delete Songs from Apple Music on Mac and Windows PC
On Mac running macOS Catalina, you have to use the Music app (as iTunes is no longer available). For older Macs and Windows PC, you have to use iTunes. The rest steps are almost the same.
- Open Music app or iTunes.
- Click on Songs from the left sidebar. To see all downloaded songs together, click on the small cloud icon next to Name. Downloaded songs have no download icon next to them.
- Right-click on a song. Click on Remove Download.
To remove multiple songs: Hold the Command button on Mac. On Windows, hold the Control button. Now, select the songs. Next, right-click and then choose Remove Download.
To remove all songs: Press Command + A on Mac. Press Control + A on Windows PC.
To download the song again, tap on the download icon next to it.
How to Remove Songs from Apple Music Library
Deleting a song is different than removing a downloaded song. In the above steps, you were removing the song’s file stored locally on your device. Now, let us see how to delete the song added to your Apple Music Library. This will also remove it from all your Apple devices and Playlists.
On iPhone or iPad
- Open the Music app
- Tap on Library.
- Tap on Songs.You will see a download icon next to songs added to your Library but not downloaded for offline listening. There will be no icons next to songs that are downloaded offline.
- Press on a song, and tap on Delete from Library. Next, tap on Delete Song.
- If you press on a song that is downloaded, you will see Remove instead of Delete from Library. Tap on Remove. Next, tap on Delete from Library. Deleting from Library also removes the downloaded music file.
Want to listen to the song you deleted from your Library? Tap on Search, find the song and tap on it to play. You may also tap on the plus (+) icon to add it again to your Library.
Info: You can stream a track online without adding it to your Library. But to download a song offline, you need to add it to your library.
On Android
- Open the Apple Music app
- Tap on Library.
- Tap on Songs.
- Long press on a song
- Tap on Delete from Library.
- Or, if you see Remove, tap on it, and then tap on DELETE FROM LIBRARY.
On Mac and Windows PC
- Open Music app on new Macs or iTunes on old Macs and PC
- Click on Songs from left sidebar
- Right-click on a song. Click on Delete from Library.
- Click on Delete Song.
Signing off…
This is how you can delete an individual song or all songs from Apple Music on different devices. Again, there is a difference between removing a song and deleting a song from the library. Remove deletes the downloaded song file. Delete from Library removes the song itself from your Library, Playlists, and other devices signed in with the same Apple ID.
However, as long as you have the Apple Music subscription, any song that you remove or delete is just a few taps away from being added or downloaded again to your library. So, don’t worry.
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As we all know, Apple Music is a popular streaming music service, for which all the songs on Apple Music are protected. We can only get access to Apple Music's entire catalogue by applying the three-month free trial, or by subscribing to its service. Once we cancel the subscription of Apple Music, we will lose access to the whole iTunes library. In other words, we won’t be able to own the Apple Music songs that we listen to, UNLESS we can find a way to save songs from Apple Music to our local computer. Here you will learn a quick and easy way to save and download music from Apple Music to your Mac / PC for offline listening.
Why Can’t We Really Download Songs from Apple Music to Computer?
Apple Music adopted access control technology and the original downloaded files from iTunes are encrypted, due to which we can't easily really save those files on computer. But from another point of view, if we find a way to record Apple Music as plain music files, we can easily preserve any songs from Apple Music to our local computer and enjoy them forever.
Here we going to apply the most popular Apple Music Recorder – NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter (with key features as follow) to show you how to save Apple Music songs to Mac / PC step by step.
- Converter Apple Music, Audiobooks and iTunes M4P music;
- Convert iTunes audios to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV;
- Download songs from Apple Music to Local Computer;
- Support Windows 10/8/7 & Mac OS 10.9-10.15 & iTunes 12.10;
- Provide timely technical support & prompt customer service;
Tutorial: How to Save Apple Music Songs to Computer (Mac | PC)
NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter supports both Windows and Mac OS. Here we take the Windows version as an example to guide you to save Apple Music as local files.
Note: For Mac users, please refer to Download Music from Apple Music on Mac for detailed steps.
Step 1: Download, Install and Launch NoteBurner Apple Music Converter
Step 2: Add Apple Music to the Program
Click button '+ Add' on the upper left. A pop-up window will show you all your music downloaded in your iTunes Library. Choose the Apple Music that you want to save to your computer and then press OK.
Step 3: Customize Output Settings for Offline Listening
Click the gear Setting button on the upper right. Here you can customize Output Formats ( MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV), Output Quality as well as Output Path.
Step 4: Save Apple Music Songs to Computer
Click button 'Convert', and all the Apple Music you chose in step 2 will soon be converted to the format you selected in step 3 and downloaded & saved offline to your local PC.
When the conversion is done, you can find all your downloaded Apple Music on your computer by clicking the history button on the upper right or directly going to the output folder you customized in previous step.
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Now you can listen to Apple Music offline anywhere anytime or transfer them to your preferable devices for enjoying at convenience.