Why can't I delete certain songs from my iPhone?

On my iPhone they are songs that synced from my computer that I don't want on my phone too. I was trying to delete them today and most of the songs i didn't want on my phone wouldn't delete and I was wondering if there was a reason for that or a way to get them to delete.

When the new iCloud Photo Library and its accompanying Photo app for Mac is available, this problem will go away. In the mean time, you have another option. Instead of syncing albums or photos from your photo library onto your device, why not create a shared Photo Stream with the older photos you want to have with you? Those can be deleted as you wish.
Or, as Ralph suggested, if you are planning a trip, remove the excess photos before you leave so you do not run out of room.
Cheers,
GB

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I saw this question was posted but no one had an answer even though it was marked as "solved".
I can't delete any songs from my library whether or not they are starred. None of the songs are on my playlists. When I right click on a song, the delete option is in gray so I can't select it. It's driving me crazy! Please help me! :catmad:

avery18 wrote:
"Greyed out Delete button songs are from playlist or local files in Library view. You can't delete songs from Library."
That fixed it. I've had this problem for MONTHS and I couldn't find a work around. This comment made me finally think to just delete the songs on the playlists and that FINALLY removed them from my library. Thanks so much for the heads up!
Hey there, enjoy your Spotify :)

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I just updated to iOS 6 and I use the cloud storage system. Upon updating to the new OS, I can no longer delete the songs I do not want from my iphone. Why is this?

Go to the place on the left where it shows your phone is plugged in. Click on the arrow ro the left, and a drop down menu comes up that lists all your music (like before the new OS5). Select what you don't want, click on delete.

Why can't I delete synced photos from my iPhone?

Early iPhones did not have especially good cameras, so this was not an issue. However, starting with the iPhone 4s, it became clear that iPhones would begin to replace standard point-and-shoot cameras. Space would soon become a problem. You could be on a trip and begin to run out of space and find that any photos you had synced using iTunes (before your trip) could not be deleted. Even if you had an iPad with more storage, you could not delete those older synced photos. Apparently, you were supposed to have brought your Mac or PC on the trip, just so that you could use iTunes To delete synced photos.
I don't understand Apple's rationale for this limitation.
As of this writing, Apple does not provide a tablet that runs iTunes. So it would seem that the only solution is to buy a PC tablet such as Microsoft surface tablet. Only then would you have a full fully portable tablet that would allow you to run the iTunes program to delete old synced photos and make more room on your iPhone.
Of course you can use airdrop to transfer photos from the iPhone camera roll to an iPad and then delete them from your iPhone, but why would you want to get rid of the newer photos on your iPhone rather than the old ones that had been synced before your trip?
SInce Apple does not offer a tablet that runs OS X (and therefore is iTunes capable), this policy would seem to be in advertisement for Microsoft.
Am I missing something?

When the new iCloud Photo Library and its accompanying Photo app for Mac is available, this problem will go away. In the mean time, you have another option. Instead of syncing albums or photos from your photo library onto your device, why not create a shared Photo Stream with the older photos you want to have with you? Those can be deleted as you wish.
Or, as Ralph suggested, if you are planning a trip, remove the excess photos before you leave so you do not run out of room.
Cheers,
GB

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I don't have my Time Capsule set up to back up every hour or so. It's set up so that I can manually drag & drop files into it. I've been trying to free up space by deleting some movie files that don't need anymore. They appear to be just .avi format but I haven't been paying close enough attention to see if any other formats won't delete. What prevents certain files from being deleted from the Time Capsule?

Dogs 'n Front wrote:
Under the DISK/File Sharing tab in Airport Utility, I have the File Sharing box checked.
What about the setting for "Secure Shared Disks"?
Dogs 'n Front wrote:
I didn't check EVERY single video and their info but a few I checked had the same permissions: "Everyone" and "Read & Write"
I only asked about each folder down the hierarchy to and including one video you can't delete.
If you copy a new file into each of the higher-level folders down to and including the "MOVIES" folder, can you then delete that new file?
If you're willing to use a command in a Terminal session, I can tell you how to determine what process has a file open.
I'll be offline for the next few hours, so I won't be able to reply as quickly as I've been for the last several exchanges.

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Right, so - I hear a song I like, start up iTunes on my new iPhone 4S, and download it from the store. No problem. Then I get home, connect my phone to my PC and... find that iTunes will not, under any circumstances, allow me to move my newly-purchased song to my hard-drive. I can find the song just fine, under 'Devices', so it's not like iTunes doesn't know it exists. My PC is registered as a 'legal shared platform' or whatever you call it, so there shouldn't be any problems with the DRM.
I even started up my iTune Store Account via the iTunes on my PC, and found the song again. Sure enough, it still remembers that I've bought it. But there's no option to re-download it. And the program simply refuses to move the file from my phone to my hard-drive in any way. Drag-and-drop just gives an 'Ø' sign, copy-and-paste does nothing. I can get iTunes to PLAY the song just fine, but only from my phone.
...the really strange thing is that LAST time I bought a song from the iTunes Store, on my phone, iTunes AUTOMATICALLY downloaded it to my hard-drive as soon as I plugged in my phone. No interaction needed on my part. And now it won't do it no matter how much I ask. Temperamental system...
EDIT: Managed to get it transfered by selecting 'Transfer Purchases' from the right-click menu of the iPhone-icon in iTunes... but I still don't understand why the song refused to sync normally or be moved manually. Meh.
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You cannot mve the songs manually from iphone to your computer.
The way you do this is exactly what you did : File>Transfer Purchases

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I consolidated music on my Macbook pro with my family iMac using iTunes Match. What I can't understand is that I can't "turn off" certain playlists. When I deleted some of my daughters' playlists from my iPhone, it removed the playlist from the iMac. Am I missing something? I had over 100 playlists listed, many of which I will never use. I can't imagine that Match isn't more versitile.

Now that you mention it, my parents don't need to see my playlists, either. Hadn't thought of that.
I accidently stumbled on an "ad-hoc" workaround that helped me. The downside is that it only works with smart playlists so it may or may not work for you. But here it is anyway:
Smart playlists will not be uploaded to the cloud if they refeence another playlist on the cloud. So I created a "catch-all" smart playlist and added a reference to that in all the smart playlists I don't want to share.
I also noticed that playlists with more than just music are not uploaded. You could add a short video or something to the playlists that are only for the iMac. This obviously won't work if your daughter needs them on her iDevice.
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16 gig iPhone 4S, running iOS 7. I can't delete these stupid songs from the phone and no matter how many times I re-sync they don't go away!!

These are probably songs that you have either deleted in iTunes, or deleted from the phone that were synced to the phone at one time. This is how it determines to put the cloud symbol beside them. iTunes Match is that way as well. Of course, if you would have mentioned the cloud earlier, it would have ended earlier too. Glad you got it sorted.

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It's actually more involved than any of these posts have mentioned. I just found out the hard way to completely delete photos from the iPhone.
Step 1: Back-up your photos to a computer. Make sure that you have any pictures you want to save already downloaded to iPhoto or some other place. I'm not a huge iPhoto fan, but it was the easiest place to put the pictures from photostream and then move them elsewhere on my computer.
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i went through a drive through the mountains recently needless to say with out radio, only sourse of music... my precious iphone. well aparently after i had subscribed to itunes match it felt the need to go behind my back and delete all the songs i had previously on my phone! *** apple? i had to do an emergency pull over and yank out my macbook and when i pluged it in sure as could be no music stored on the phone so i was apparently streaming music chewing up a huge chunk of my data in little over two hours!i had to shut off itunes match on the macbook and the iphone and sync again just to get some music!!!
There has to have a solution!! why did it do this? Did anybody else have similiar issues?

I have the same problem and I'm not sure this addresses it. I want to subscribe to iTunes match using my Mac; the intention being that I can then remove all the subset of my tunes from the ipad mini, and when travelling listen to music on the iPad mini via iTunes Match.
So the question still remains, does the music stored on my iPad mini get automatically removed when i subscribe to iTunes Match, or do I have to remove it??
Also, my iPad mini is showing that 1.8GB of storage is taken up by music at the moment, will all of this be freed if I subscribe to iTunes match and delete the music (irrespective of whether this is done manually or via an automatic delete).
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- First, go to Settings>iCloud and make sure the Contacts is turned on
- Next go to Settings>General:Restrictions and make sure that no Restrictions are set.
Last, the standard fixes:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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Hey cjt101,
Thanks for the question. Was this song purchased from the iTunes Store? If so, it may be that your device is configured to show all of your purchased music that has not yet been downloaded. The following resource may resolve your issue:
iCloud and iTunes Match - iPhone
http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iphb8d9fd5a6
View only music that’s downloaded. Go to Settings > iTunes & App Store. Under Show All, turn off Music.
Thanks,
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