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iPhone How to disable automatic iTunes Match music download
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If that's all off the only thing that should automatically download to your phone is your items you 5 star which go in the 'my top rated' playlist.
I'm having the same problem with all my iOS devices. I think it's a glitch with iOS 9.2 because it happened with an iPad I had the beta version installed on before the general release. Now all my devices are downloading nearly every newly added track. Very annoying. If I had the space to download all my music I wouldn't need iTunes Match.
Yup, same issue here. This is definitely a new "feature" with 9.2. I noticed it when I installed the beta but hoped they would add an option to turn it off by the final release. This causes an issue for me since my kid's devices are now auto downloading any new music I add to my library.
I have the same problem, what happens when you dont have any more free space in your iOS device? then you can not install aps cause ios auto downloaded a lot of music ? or just delete the music automatically too?
i just added 50.000 songs to icloud music, so go figure...
i just added 50.000 songs to icloud music, so go figure...
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I have the same problem. I just purchased iTunes match to up my 400gb collection, its trying to download 6000 songs on my iPhone 64b 6S, just have to scroll to the bottom and hit delete all. Since Match is a yearly subscription this has kinda made Apple Music unusable for me. I just want the option to dip into my collection while I am out and about and go back to my music on device or Apple Music.
Let me know if you find a solution.
Let me know if you find a solution.
+1. It happened with 3000+ songs when I switched on match after an absence of a few months, and just now again when I added two new albums in iTunes. As others report, auto downloads is switched off in store settings.
You cancel it, clear up what you don't want locally on the phone and watch it happen again as a new album is added on iTunes.
What is odd is that it appears to be a state within the iCloud music library. For instance, after I had enabled match on my phone and then cleared up, as above, last night I enabled match on my iPad. This did not download all the new material that was new to match (from my MBP) like my phone did. It only automatically downloads new material, uploaded since re-subscribing to match, albeit on both devices.
I'm not fussed about the internal logic of how it decides what's new and which devices get it, that bit is probably correct. What is the bug is the ignorance of the switch designed to prevent automatic downloads.
What is odd is that it appears to be a state within the iCloud music library. For instance, after I had enabled match on my phone and then cleared up, as above, last night I enabled match on my iPad. This did not download all the new material that was new to match (from my MBP) like my phone did. It only automatically downloads new material, uploaded since re-subscribing to match, albeit on both devices.
I'm not fussed about the internal logic of how it decides what's new and which devices get it, that bit is probably correct. What is the bug is the ignorance of the switch designed to prevent automatic downloads.
