2 Ways to Delete All Music from iPhone (Selectively)

Updated Jan 18,2019 | by Cody

If your iPhone storage is almost full, you can delete all music from iPhone to free up space. If you have Apple Music subscription, it is very convenient to stream music on your iPhone. in that case, you don’t need to store music on your iOS device locally.

From the Music app on iPhone, you may not find the delete all option, but don’t worry. In this article, I will show you 2 methods to remove all the music you saved on your iPhone. You can do it on your iPhone and you can also selectively delete multiple songs from iPhone.

It is time consuming when you try to delete all songs from the Music app. You have to open one song and select Remove from Library. Fortunately, you don’t have to do it one by one when you want to delete all music from iOS device.

You can follow the steps below to remove all songs or some of them from your iOS device. no additional apps are required.

Step 1. Open the Settings app.

Step 2. Navigate to General > iPhone Storage > Music app.

Step 3. When the data is loaded, which may take a few seconds, you can see how much space all the music have taken. Just scroll down and tap on the Edit button at the right of the Recommendations section to continue.

Step 4. After that, you will see a little red deletion badge appears next to the All Songs. Just simply Tap on it and tap Delete to delete all music from iPhone.

That’s it. All local music stored on your iOS device will be deleted. You then have freed a considerable space on you iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

 As you can see, below the All Song cell, there are a few red deletion badges for every song you have on iPhone. You can tap on each of them to bulk delete songs on your iPhone.

If you only want to remove duplicated songs on iPhone, you can run this Siri shortcut, which is quite convenient. You don’t have to find and delete them manually.

There is a better way to bulk delete music from iPhone, iPod, and iPad. In order to selectively delete multiple songs from your iOS device, you can use IOTransfer, best iPhone manager software for Windows.

With IOTransfer, you can easily delete all music on iPhone or some of them. Of course, you can also export music to your PC before deleting them. Let’s see how it works.

Step 1. Free download and install this software on your Windows PC. Connect your iPhone to this PC via a USB cable.

Step 2. Open IOTransfer and wait for your iPhone data to load, which may take a few seconds.

Step 3. Click on Manage from the top menu and select Music from the left side panel.

Step 4. From here, you can check Select All and select Delete to delete all songs. You can also check the checkbox of the songs that you want to delete.

Compared to the previous method, this is more convenient if you want to bulk delete a few songs but not to delete all of them. In terms of music management, IOTransfer is more user-friendly than iTunes. You can import or export a few songs to iPhone without sync the entire library.

As you can see from the screenshot, IOTransfer is more capable than just deleting music from iPhone. You can use IOTransfer to download free music from YouTube, one-click backup iPhone, convert video to another format, clean iPhone junk files, etc.

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