How To Remove Song From Itunes

[Rosetta Ockman]

Selectthe tracks that you want to remove, right-click and select Delete from Library. You might want to hide the tracks from your purchase history when prompted, or see Hide and unhide music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and books - Apple Support. Assuming this is a recent purchase you might want to visit , explain your error, and request a refund.

On iPhone 12, IOS 14.6, got Apple Music subscription last month and since then have not been able to remove songs from my playlists without deleting them from my library and having to re-add and re-download them. There is no option I can find to simply remove from the playlist.

Such a garbage problem. Have no idea how to get these songs back now or which ones I even deleted. Do these people even use their own app? Seriously, things like "play last" instead of an add to queue, now this crap? What a joke, I might just to switch back to spotify at this point

Thank you for posting in Apple Support Communities. From our understanding, when you attempt to remove a song from a specific playlist it remove the song from your library completely, is that correct? How are you deleting it? Are you selecting the 3 dots at the top right, selecting "Edit" and then selecting the minus sign next to the song instead of selecting the song and selecting "Delete From Library"?

To re-download them, I had to search for the songs individually in the ITunes Store app on my phone. Once they showed up in search , I clicked the little price and authorized payment. Then I got a "you already bought this, click here to download again" message and downloaded from there!

I have the same understanding. Apple removed functionality on mobile to remove specific songs from playlists without removing them from the library. This was previously possible mobile. Now it's not and what looks like the same feature achieves what it is I'm trying to avoid: remove song from library.

She was do frustrated she showed me on my phone. One of my playlist had the same song seven times. Deleted one instance of the seven in play list, all seven instances disappeared as well as from my library.

I am using iTunes for Windows 12.5.5.5 and I can't seem to find how to delete a song from my custom playlist and keep it in my Library - doesn't matter if it is iTunes for Windows or on my iPhone. Every instruction on Apple's site discusses deleting from your library, but not from a playlist. If you press the delete key, it prompts you if you want to delete from your library, with options to keep the song or remove it from all devices. This is rather irritating....

So as soon as I post this, I see that if I DON'T select Edit Playlist, but select just the song, an option appears in the context menu to remove from playlist.... wow. Apple you wrote the book on GUI design, this is a fail...

This is epically stupid. The trick is to set View>ViewAs to Songs (not Playlist). This lets you sort the list and do other things without ever diving into Edit mode, which is almost completely useless AFAIK.

Delete songs from iPod/iPod touch but still keep on computer: Connect your iPod to computer > Run iTunes if it doesn't open automatically > Click the device mark of your iPod > Click Summary > Check Manually Music and Videos in Options Column > Click Music at On My Device Column > Right click the songs you want to delete > Click Delete to remove songs from iPod and iPod touch.

If you want to take a song off of one iPod but not others, you will probably need to Sync selected playlists, artists, albums and genres to your iPod instead of Sync / Entire Library. But that's a different story. If so, let us know and we can help you set that up.

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If your iTunes library is getting a bit out of control, you can clean things up by deleting music you no longer listen to. When you remove songs from your iTunes library, they'll be removed from any devices they're synced to next time you sync. When you delete songs directly on your iOS device, they are completely removed. Songs that you've purchased may be hidden when you delete them, and can be unhidden with iTunes.

Dear Apple support, songs are added to playlist with a simple klick and choosing add to playlist. Removing the same song from the same playlist is a complete different process. With a simple klick on the song you can add the song to the library, to a new playlist, you can share the song, show lyrics, create a station, like the song or just letting Apple music know that you don't like the song, but no possibility to deleting the song from the playlist.

I cant believe that Apple haven't thought of this so what is the explanation. With the current process you get inside a Playlist, you Tap on "Edit", then select the songs you want to remove from the Playlist (minus sign). It sounds easy but if you have more than a couple of hundred songs which is the usual case and you are not even allowed to sort in alphabetical order the process becomes very complicated. When you listen to a song and realise that you don't like that song anymore you simply want to remove it from your list by a simple klick as easy as when you added the track.

Please explain why apple makes it so difficult. Is it because of increasing profit? Maybe the artist receives less money if the listener plays the song from a playlist? I don't know, I am just amazed that a such a simple feature is not there.

I am 44 years old and I have seen Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia almost disappear from the market due to negligence. I don't want the same thing to happen apple. I have all the products and my recent purchase was an Apple Watch and because of it I opened Apple music instead of Spotify since the latter do not exist on Apple watch. I have several friends that are equally upset about this removing song matter and they say that as soon as Spotify creates an app for the Apple watch they will change back.

Dear Nicholas, thanks for much appreciated response. I do not believe several thousands of highly rewarded Apple ingeniers haven't thought of this improvement. Fairly simple to understand the need to simply add and to remove a track from your playlist. So it have to be another explanation to why Apple deliberately complicate this feature. If I post my question on the page you suggesting, we know that nothing will happen.

I might be wrong. Very much looking forward to your frank and honest response. From my side, and many with me, I will stop my subscription of Apple music after the three months gratuitous period if its close to impossible to delete a song from my playlist.

Thanks for taking the time to post on the Apple Support Communities page. Apple is always looking for ways to improve products and software. Many changes and improvements come from user feedback like yours. We have a page dedicated to feedback and suggestions. This would be the best place for you to submit your ideas directly to our engineers. You can access our feedback site here: Product Feedback

I don't want to "hide" songs in iCloud, I want to delete them. Mostly it's junk that came on CD collections (rough cuts or songs I don't care about). I can get them off my iTunes on my iMac but they still play on my iPhone.

The reason you still see them, is because they are still in the cloud. If the track is ripped from a CD, when you delete a track from the iTunes library you are also prompted, in a dialog, to delete the track from the cloud. Select the option in the dialog and the tracks will be removed from the cloud. If you have deleted tracks and they are still showing up on the iOS device find the cloud-hosted track in the iTunes library and delete it.

If the track is purchased from the iTunes Store you can not permanently delete it, you can only hide it. But hiding will also remove the tracks from being seein on your iOS device. See this Apple KB article:

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