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I recently had my subscription stop for non payment. This is the first time I hadn’t paid it for maybe 2weeks. When I repurchased my family account my music was completely gone. All the music I’ve had saved from years of Apple Music just gone. It usually gives me the option to sync my music. Can someone help me? I used the same iCloud account
iPhone (6)
If you stop your subscription, Apple will punish you and delete all your playlists. This is the only reason I will never buy Apple music again and just stick with Spotify, they do not pull this petty act on their loving customers which always return back to them.
When the Apple Music subscription is ended, either by lack of payment or cancelling the service, any music downloaded from the service or playlists created are deleted. There is no grace period to keep the music after it is cancelled.
cultinc wrote:
Apple music removed my playlists that I created based on music that I purchased on CD. Apple are despicable low-lifes using every trick they can to take money from us.
Your songs are still available on the device you used to import them from the CD. This is likely a PC/Mac since you cannot import music from a CD directly to your iPhone. When you use Apple Music on that PC/Mac, it will make your music available on all of your devices that are also set to Sync Music. Once you cancel the subscription, the music is removed from the other devices just like it was before you signed up for the subscription, but still remain on your Mac/PC. If you are unable to find you Music on your Mac/PC, then contact Apple directly:
angelkamille wrote:
Oh wow, I wish I read this before purchasing back again. Now, 7 years of curated music all gone. I thought I was going to have it back, since I could not sustain a subscription with work, school and providing for my family. :/ I thought I subsrcibed back to a part of my happiness and memories. What an unfortunate comeback. is this still the same for every one at August 2024? Ive seen fairly recent post, two months ago. T_T
Apple does not save any information about you longer than necessary. This includes Music Playlists you have previously created. It is detailed in their Music Privacy Guidelines.
Legal - Apple Music & Privacy - Apple
The good news is that creating a Playlist is easy and you may even discover new songs along the way.
Apple music removed my playlists that I created based on music that I purchased on CD. Apple are despicable low-lifes using every trick they can to take money from us.
jamm8 wrote:
Also Apple has begun to not sell stuff instead they force us to rent.
Apple isn't forcing you to do anything. You can still buy music from the iTunes Store if you prefer not to subscribe to Apple Music.
jamm8 wrote:
Much of my rented apple music library turned out to be not available to buy on iTunes. It can only be rented with an Apple Music subscription. Renting, as I pointed out, is ridiculously expensive. If I pay 11 dollars a month for a year shouldn’t I own something? I want to own something. Not keep endlessly having to come up with more and more money.
You're certainly entitled to want what you want. But that doesn't mean anyone has to give it to you. You'll need to take this up with the rights holders who have chosen only to offer their content through subscription, not for purchase.
With the way digital music is going, I would rather go to a store, buy a CD, and have a way to put it on a phone to play it.
That is certainly an option. If it works better for you, you should do that.
gberg1312 wrote:
I just had the same issue and cannot believe that for non-payment for a short time they have deleted my playlists. That took years to build. Shocked?! Is there any way to get them back...?
You will need to create your playlists again. Apple does not hold on to your data if you no longer use the service. At least it is easy to create playlists.
I have been looking for a solution and it is impossible. I called Apple support and they said, "Oh, we didn't know that was possible, because we always pay for our subscriptions."
Yes, that was very hypocritical of them.
Oh wow, I wish I read this before purchasing back again. Now, 7 years of curated music all gone. I thought I was going to have it back, since I could not sustain a subscription with work, school and providing for my family. :/ I thought I subsrcibed back to a part of my happiness and memories. What an unfortunate comeback. is this still the same for every one at August 2024? Ive seen fairly recent post, two months ago. T_T
Cynthia1010 wrote:
What did you do to my music library. Its half gone. If you billed me i would have paid. Put it back
No one here in this user-to-user forum did anything with your music library. Nor can we put it back. I suggest that you read this thread from the beginning to see if there is anything that helps. If there isn't, I think you should start your own thread as this one has been dormant for a while.
Same happened to me, even after renewing my subscription.
Yesterday I found the library sync button, turned to off. I turned it on and ii started to be downloading. Five minutes later I had all my music back, playlists and all!
Have you already tried to reinstall the app?
Haven’t tried that, let me try
Thank you for sharing. Ive already understood theyre gone. curating playlists for years does would take time again. Also I do not have a good memory to recollect all the songs I listened.
What did you do to my music library. Its half gone. If you billed me i would have paid. Put it back
Where did my playlist go in my library, everything is gone? How do I recover my music?
