My iphone still plays songs with lower quality instead of 256kbps

I enabled iTunes match on my iPad and iPhone 4S. However, it already
has my songs already synced on them and when I play songs it plays at
lower quality than at 256kbps as claimed by Apple.
One option is to delete all the songs on the iPad and iPhone. But that
will require me to delete every song individually. How do I solve this
problem?

When you turn on iTunes match on your iOS device it should warn you that it is going to delete your songs. You will then need to redownload the ones you want to listen to from the cloud.

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