ios deleted my Downloaded music!

[JM]

My iPhone went from about 6 GB downloaded songs to just 574 MB!! They were there this morning.

It’s got just a few random songs in there now.

Has this happened to anyone else?

What the h*** iOS 15?!

 

[Shirasaki]

Are you an Apple Music subscriber? If so, can you still search those songs in Apple Music? They could’ve been pulled by apple.

 

[JM]

Are you an Apple Music subscriber? If so, can you still search those songs in Apple Music? They could’ve been pulled by apple.

Yes on Apple Music. All my playlists and songs and albums are still there. Thankfully.

But the downloads went crazy. All my normal albums and playlists downloads were deleted, and all these older songs I never listen to were on the downloads along with a 2-3 from different playlists and albums.

 

[Shirasaki]

Yes on Apple Music. All my playlists and songs and albums are still there. Thankfully.

But the downloads went crazy. All my normal albums and playlists downloads were deleted, and all these older songs I never listen to were on the downloads along with a 2-3 from different playlists and albums.

I don’t use Apple Music so not much experience, tho this is not first time apple having no idea how to manage their cached contents. If you could “download playlist”, just redownload it. 6GB isn’t a huge deal nowadays especially with 5G network.

 

[antiprotest]

Unusual that iOS is actually deleting known contents and freeing up space by itself rather than accumulating gigabytes upon gigabytes unknown contents and just call everything "other".

 

[JM]

I don’t use Apple Music so not much experience, tho this is not first time apple having no idea how to manage their cached contents. If you could “download playlist”, just redownload it. 6GB isn’t a huge deal nowadays especially with 5G network.

Yes, true. I can always redownload. I’m just very disappointed in iOS 15 and Apple for doing this. I used to be able to trust their software.

 

[JM]

Unusual that iOS is actually deleting known contents and freeing up space by itself rather than accumulating gigabytes upon gigabytes unknown contents and just call everything "other".

And I have a 128GB iPhone 13 mini, with 90GB of free space so it’s not like it was needing to free up space.

 

[Shirasaki]

Yes, true. I can always redownload. I’m just very disappointed in iOS 15 and Apple for doing this. I used to be able to trust their software.

This is simply no longer the case, and will likely never be. It’s just reality sadly.