My songs seemed to only half download.
Hi, so last night I bought a song on my iPhone 4S and when I went to play it it wouldn't play for a long time but then after a few minutes it did. I then thought that everything was fine and put it in a playlist, when I went to play the playlist all the songs were playing fine until the song that was right before the son I had just bought. The song before it would not play, it would not play, and as I continued to skip around the ones after would not play. I tried to delete it by swiping the song but the red delete button did not show up when on all my others had the delete button just fine. I am away from my computer where my phone is synced for a while is there anything I can do to fix this issue?
Hello Mara177
If you were in the playlist and trying to delete a song, you would actually have to hit the edit button. If you go to the songs tab and find the songs you should be able to delete it by swiping. Then try and download the songs again from the previous purchase section in the iTunes app.
iPhone User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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Regards,
-Norm G.
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