iPad Can't delete song from iPad using iTunes

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cgm707

macrumors regular

Original poster

Dec 24, 2009

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• Jul 15, 2013

• #1

I have my iPad attached to my Macbook. I hit Delete for a song on the iPad, using iTunes on the Macbook, but nothing happens.

I don't remember this happening before. Any ideas?

 

charlituna

macrumors G3

Jun 11, 2008

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Los Angeles, CA

• Jul 15, 2013

• #2

cgm707 said:

I have my iPad attached to my Macbook. I hit Delete for a song on the iPad, using iTunes on the Macbook, but nothing happens.

I don't remember this happening before. Any ideas?

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Did you verify that it is set for manually manage songs

 

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NewAnger

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Apr 24, 2012

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Denver Colorado

• Jul 15, 2013

• #3

cgm707 said:

I have my iPad attached to my Macbook. I hit Delete for a song on the iPad, using iTunes on the Macbook, but nothing happens.

I don't remember this happening before. Any ideas?

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I had this happen with an iPhone a few times. The only way I could get rid of the songs was to restore the phone. You might want to try that if nothing else works unless you are jailbroken. The iOS has a few bugs with this for sure.

 

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ewilson6

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Nov 30, 2006

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• Jul 16, 2013

• #4

Or you could just swipe your finger left to right on the right side of the song name on your iPhone or iPad and hit delete?

 

davidrellis

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Jun 29, 2012

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• Jul 21, 2013

• #5

This happened to me whenever I got my iPhone last year and it was restoring from the iCloud backup.

What happened was that the songs I couldn't delete and kept popping back up were being downloaded from the iTunes app from my phone. All I had to do is wait for those to finish downloading and then I was able to delete them.

Hope that helps!