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Moving apple music to new device?
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If you literally mean re-download every track then that is a joke on apples part.
There's no way to get my apple music library from my old iPhone 6 to my 6s?
Same thing happened to my daughter when Apple replaced her iPhone 6; no way to get back what you had on this phone before without downloading it again. Not even providing you with a list so you knew where to start! Super lame. She had tons of music she needed for classes and had to go and remember what she had. It took her hours to do it all and then once in class, she'd realize she was missing something, and wasn't able to play it (since we had cellular data turned off for Music because she never needed it before this circumstance!).
Even music she purchased through iTunes prior to Apple Music even existing, that was always physically on her phone, was gone. That was at least a bit easier to get back as she could choose to make all her purchased songs available offline, but she had to wait for them to download. A purchased song that is on your phone, shouldn't even come off unless you remove it yourself.
Even music she purchased through iTunes prior to Apple Music even existing, that was always physically on her phone, was gone. That was at least a bit easier to get back as she could choose to make all her purchased songs available offline, but she had to wait for them to download. A purchased song that is on your phone, shouldn't even come off unless you remove it yourself.
The record labels don't allow tracks to be moved/copied between devices and require strict device/user specific DRM. Apple has no control over this and it is the same for all streaming services like Spotify.
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Yea but you should at least have the library visible so you can see what you downloaded.
That's why I always use my iTunes on the mac
I'm a bit lost here. When you login to AM with your AppleID don't you see all the music there? What I do for offline listening is keep different playlists so if I changed devices, I could just download it again. As stated before, Apple has no control over this.
I'm a bit lost here. When you login to AM with your AppleID don't you see all the music there? What I do for offline listening is keep different playlists so if I changed devices, I could just download it again. As stated before, Apple has no control over this.
Nope. Nothing. Nada. Restored from backup and there was nothing in my library.
I should have been clearer in earlier posts - by downloading I mean have it in my library to stream. I rarely stored a song for offline use as I only had the 16gb iPhone 6.
Are you sure you have iCloud Music Library switched on? You should see the AM library regardless of iTunes.
Its the same with Spotify (if you get a new device) from what a friend was telling my, so the issue isn't just isolated to Apple Music.
Not sure why you aren't seeing your library, but when I got my new iPhone recently, I restored off backup, enabled Apple Music and I could see all the stuff in my library. After that, I chose what I wanted to be available offline and I was back where I wanted.
