iTunes Store music deleted

[elf69]

OK so my fiancee has some how deleted the music she bought from apple.

Was a quite a few tracks.

So now on her iPhone SE if she goes to purchased there is only one she bought few days ago.

last month she removed music to free up space, thinking she can redownload later from iTunes Store.

Is there a way get them back?
I'm not sure what she did when deleted, unless she deleted from iCloud?

Would that have this result?

thanks for any help.

 

[maflynn]

Is there a way get them back?

You don't see a little cloud icon on the music that you know she owns?

Is the music on your Mac?

 

[elf69]

no music listed and as such no cloud that's what I was looking for.

she does not own a Mac all her music on iPhone only.
she uses it as a iPod when cleaning house with her AirPods.

 

[elf69]

For anyone else with this problem....

They are not gone but if you delete from iCloud library it hides them so cannot download again.

So I reset the old 2008 MacBook Air with HER apple account and signed into HER apple account within iTunes.
Then went to account, my account, hidden items, click manage.

Then can unhide certain or all items.
close iTunes and now on the iPhone/ipad which is signed in with this apple account can now see all the previously hidden content!

This may help someone else with this issue.

 

[Jjayf]

FWIW Apple does not allow you to actually delete permanently things you purchase like ebooks, apps and music. You can hide them and physically remove them from your device, but they are forever linked to your Apple ID. This is to prevent people from accidently deleting something then claiming Apple deleted them.

 

[elf69]

Yeah recently discovered this.