iPad Pro Why Does Music Use so much space on my iPad (with no downloaded music)?

[DekuBleep]

I have a 2020 iPad Pro 12.9 with 256gb of space. And I use Apple Music and I stream lots of music to my iPad. So I'm not currently running out of space, but Music is currently using 6GB of my storage without any downloaded music. If I delete the Music App then the storage used doesn't even go away, it still tells me that Apple Music is using the same storage for unspecified files. See the attached photo.

Does anyone know why Apple Music is using so much space on my iPad? Is there any way for me to reduce the amount of space that it uses? Thanks!

 

[Crow_Servo]

I'm wondering the same thing myself. Only noticed it when I upgraded to iPadOS 15. Could be unrelated, but maybe not.

 

[YanniDepp]

The Music app saves files if you listen to them regularly, so it doesn’t have to redownload them every time. It’s called caching and Spotify does it too.

It also stores metadata about your collection if you use iTunes Match or have cloud library switched on, including album art. That shouldn’t account for 6GB though.

 

[wilberforce]

The iOS and iPadOS storage breakdown reporting is very buggy, and there seems to be a huge lag (like weeks).
I have had apps where I know there are many GB of data (like high resolution topo maps, and as reported in the app itself), but iOS reports a few hundred MB. Then a month later, not having done anything, it reports correctly (like 7 GB).
Vice versa for other apps.
It's an Apple practical joke to gaslight us and drive us crazy.

 

[Crow_Servo]

The iOS and iPadOS storage breakdown reporting is very buggy, and there seems to be a huge lag (like weeks).
I have had apps where I know there are many GB of data (like high resolution topo maps, and as reported in the app itself), but iOS reports a few hundred MB. Then a month later, not having done anything, it reports correctly (like 7 GB).
Vice versa for other apps.
It's an Apple practical joke to gaslight us and drive us crazy.

Hopefully for Apple's greedy sake, they'll sell higher storage devices to people believing these buggy readouts. Followed by a class action lawsuit. lol