Apple Music offers 30 million songs to stream, but you can also listen to music without consuming data. In this article, you can read how to make songs and playlists available offline.
Listen Apple Music offline
With a few taps on the screen you have access to over 30 million songs. Handy, but not so nice for your data bundle if you are not on WiFi. Also for people with a smaller data bundle it is often better not to stream too much. Before you know it, your MBs are used up and you have to pay extra to continue using the internet at normal speed.
Apple Music – just like other streaming services – offers a solution. If you have an Apple Music subscription and have turned on the iCloud Music Library (from Settings> Music> iCloud Music Library), you can download any song you want and listen to it anytime without using any data. The songs or playlists are of course best downloaded via WiFi.
Make songs or albums available offline
Follow these four steps to download songs (or entire albums):
- Open the Music app;
- Search for the song or album you want to download;
- Next to the song or album, tap the More button (three dots);
- Choose ‘Make available offline’.
This way you can also save music from playlists offline. Under the title of the playlist, choose the More button and ‘Make available offline’.
Manage offline numbers
If you want to watch music that you have downloaded, you can do so by going to My Music in the Music app. There you will probably find a heading with ‘Recently added’, but below that there is also a button to sort music. It probably says ‘Artists’ or ‘Albums’ with a down arrow next to it. Tap that and choose ‘Show Music Available Offline’. Only that music remains.
Read more about Apple Music
- Apple Music Replay: Check out your 2020 musical overview (12/2/2020)
- You now receive up to five months of Apple Music with Shazam (29-11-2020)
- Apple Music TV launched: Apple’s own channel of music videos (20-10-2020)
- Code for Apple Music Android app also confirms ‘Apple One’ subscription bundle (13-9-2020)
- Apple announces two new radio stations and renames Beats 1 (18-8-2020)