How to Delete a Downloaded Song in Apple Music

Apple Music is a subscription service for your iPhone that allows you to stream and download songs to your device.

You can choose to download a song from Apple Music so that you can listen to it at any time without needing to worry about potential data charges.

But downloaded songs take up storage space on your iPhone, and you might later decide that you would like to delete a song that you have downloaded so that the storage space can be used for something else.

Our guide below will show you where to go to delete a downloaded song and free up the space on your iPhone.

Deleting Individual Downloaded Songs from Apple Music in iOS 9

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in IOS 9.1. Following this tutorial will allow you to delete individual songs that you have previously downloaded for offline play.

Most songs are about 3 – 5 MB in size. If you would instead prefer to delete all of the songs that you have downloaded, then click here and learn how to delete all of your downloaded songs at once.

Step 1: Open the Music app.

open apple music

Step 2: Select the My Music option at the bottom of the screen.

open the my music tab

Step 3: Find the downloaded song that you want to delete, then tap the icon with the three horizontal dots. Note that there is a small phone icon at the right side of the song listing to indicate that it is downloaded to your iPhone.

open the song menu

Step 4: Tap the Remove Download button to delete the song from your device. Note that if the song was a part of a playlist, it will remain in that playlist. However, if you listen to that song while connected to a cellular network, then cellular data rates may apply.

delete a downloaded song in apple music

Now that you know how to delete a downloaded song in Apple Music, you can use these steps to free up some storage space by removing the songs that you don’t need to have on your phone.

Did you sign up for a trial of Apple Music, but aren’t sure if you want to continue using the service when the trial is over? Learn how to turn off automatic renewal for Apple Music so that you are not accidentally charged when your trial has ended.

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