Restore Downloaded Apple Music Tracks?

[california_kid]

Anyone know of a better way to restore downloaded Apple Music tracks while backing up and restoring to a new iPhone? I thought the manual, encrypted backup to a local Mac would save the downloads but it doesn't.

As far as I can see, I have to manually download all the tracks to the new phone. Is there a better way?

 

[poppe]

Anyone know of a better way to restore downloaded Apple Music tracks while backing up and restoring to a new iPhone? I thought the manual, encrypted backup to a local Mac would save the downloads but it doesn't.

As far as I can see, I have to manually download all the tracks to the new phone. Is there a better way?

I'd like to know this as well. Hate having to redownload 70Gbs of music every year, and the phone always getting super hot while I spread out the downloads over 2 weeks not to make the phone run like crap.

 

[Pipper99]

It is very annoying, and this is the best workaround that I've found. At least it keeps me from having to tap each individual track to download.

https://www.iphonelife.com/content/tip-day-how-make-all-your-music-available-offline-apple-music

 

[california_kid]

It is very annoying, and this is the best workaround that I've found. At least it keeps me from having to tap each individual track to download.

https://www.iphonelife.com/content/tip-day-how-make-all-your-music-available-offline-apple-music

I do something similar. I just create temporary alphabetically sorted playlists like A-J and drag all tracks by artists in that range. When the new playlist shows up on the phone, I select download playlist. I like to break up the the download into 3-4 playlists so I can better deal with errors. After finishing the download, I just delete the playlists.

It's still a pain to have to do this with each new iPhone or if I ever need to restore a backup.