Congratulations! You have become the happy owner of the brand new iPhone that you have been dreaming about for so long! But not even a month passed, as you realized that in order to download the latest game or a movie that just appeared at the box office, there is not enough space in your smart iPhone. There is only one way out - to delete some of the music files from it. In this article, you will learn how to remove music from your iPhone and thereby free up the space you need for recording movies, games, photos and e-books.
I must say that Apple products are in great demand all over the world today, and the iPhone has become one of the most popular and coveted phone models. Nevertheless, many happy owners of these phones face certain problems in their operation, the most common of which is how to delete music from the iPhone.
You wonāt be able to delete music from your iPhone in the old "old-fashioned" way (by connecting the phone to a personal computer and simply deleting the selected files) for one simple reason: the iOS operating system, under which your device actually works, is a file system closed type. As a result, the computer does not recognize your iPhone as a removable disk, which makes it impossible to view the information contained in your phone, edit it or delete it. All you can do is drop pictures and photos from your phone to your computer.
But do not panic, considering that you havenāt purchased such an advertised phone in vain. In fact, removing music from the iPhone is quite real, and thereās nothing complicated about it. All you have to do is install iTunes on your computer, which you can download on the World Wide Web. If you need to update the program, you can do this after installing it.
So how to remove music from iPhone? All downloaded music tracks will be in your application āMusicā. Of course, itās not necessary to download music there. In this case, it will be necessary to remove it from the installed program - sometimes it is easier, but you should not rely on it. Just swipe your finger on the musical composition, the ādeleteā icon will appear, and with a simple click the song will be deleted. The same method may work with the Music application. But as soon as you connect your phone to your computer and launch iTunes, all the tracks you have deleted will be downloaded to your iPhone again. Someone may consider this a flaw in the iPhone and turn out to be wrong: this is how the iPhone takes care of the safety of your library.
But back to our problem, how to delete music from the iPhone. As mentioned above, first of all, you need to install the convenient iTunes program on your computer and run it.
Connect your phone to a personal computer using a usb cable. ITune will detect your phone - you can see it in the "Devices" section. Device synchronization will begin. As soon as it ends, you will need to click on the inscription āiPhoneā in the iTunes section of the program āDevicesā. Activate the "Overview" section in the menu of your phone. In this section you can see all the information about your phone. In the "Options" subsection, be sure to check the box that you want to synchronize the songs you have selected, and then go to the music section (already on your iPhone, but not iTunes) and check the boxes for what you want to sync.
Next, go to the "Music" section of iTunes. Select the files you would like to delete. Important: if you hold down the Ctrl button, you can select not only individual music tracks, but even entire albums.
When the selection of files for deletion is completed, press Delete on the keyboard of your computer. Everything is ready. Music you donāt need has been removed from your iTunes library. As you can see - nothing super complicated. Of course, if you figure out what and how to do it.
We hope that now you will not have any problems with your phone, but you already know how to delete music from your iPhone.