The Apple Music service offers access to a tremendous library of songs. You can locate songs in the Apple Music library to add them to playlists, allowing you to customize the list of songs that you play on your device.
But you might find that you no longer want to listen to a song or that the same song is included on your playlist twice. In these sorts of situations, you will likely choose to delete the song from your playlist.
Fortunately, the individual songs included in Apple Music playlists can be managed without affecting the rest of the playlist. So continue reading below to learn how you can delete an unwanted song from a playlist in the Apple Music app.
Remove a Song from a Playlist in Apple Music on an iPhone
The steps in this guide were written using an iPhone 6 Plus in iOS 8.4. Note that you need to have at least iOS 8.4 installed in order to use Apple Music. You can read here to learn about updating the operating system on your iPhone.
Note that if you have the same song included in other playlists, it will not be deleted from those playlists. You will need to perform these same steps to remove it on the other playlists.
- Step 1: Open the Music app.
- Step 2: Select the My Music tab at the bottom of the screen.
- Step 3: Tap the Playlists tab at the top of the screen.
- Step 4: Select the playlist containing the song that you wish to remove.
- Step 5: Locate the song that you want to remove from the playlist, then tap the icon with the three dots to the right of that song.
- Step 6: Select the Remove from Playlist option.
Now that you know how to delete a song from a playlist in Apple Music, you won’t need to keep skipping that song in the future whenever it starts playing.
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