Almost all songs are still on iPhone though iTunes match is active

Hello Togehther,
since some months I have iTunes Match active, and in principle it works fine. But I'm wondering, why it works as it does, at least for me:
on my iPad the entire music library was replaced with iTunes Match active (I think, this is, how it is supposed to work)
on my iPhone though, almost all titles are still sitting in the memory of the phone (12.4GB), and only few are just in the cloud. Even more strange: all titles are shown twice, once the "physical" one on the iPhone, and next to it again with the cloud symbol.
Any explanation for this strange behavior?
Thanks for your help.
Gerhard

I agree iTunes is counterintuitive and confusing. Poorly designed - it seems to be getting less user-friendly with each iteration. It feels more like a Windows program each time there is a significant new version.
With respect to this particular problem, I had (or thought I had) the same issue. I wanted to put songs on the iPhone but couldn't, even after turning off iTunes match on the computer. For me, the problem turned out to be that iTunes match was off in iTunes on the computer, but was still switched on on my iPhone. On the iPhone, I went to Settings>iTunes and App Store>iTunes Match and switched it off.

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