You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

📰 Newsroom Update

Billie Eilish is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2024. Learn more >

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

songs from iPod not wanted

so I plugged my iPod Touch 4th gen into my iMac for the first time and it says something like "transfer songs or they will be removed from the iPod"and the music was purchases that I hidden already. I chose transfer because I didn't know what the music was. I do it and it all shows up in my library and it doesn't show that I can hide it. I don't want to necessarily delete the music, but that seems as its my only option. I'm wondering since it doesn't show up in the purchases tab that means if I delete it that maybe it won't delete from other devices? if not is their a other way to hide it? thanks

Posted on Jan 13, 2023 4:30 PM

Reply
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Posted on Jan 13, 2023 4:36 PM

You are likely not getting an option to hide these tracks because they are already hidden. Do you have a subscription to Apple Music or iTunes Match? Deleting tracks from a cloud library will normally be replicated on any other cloud based library, but for downloaded tracks on a computer these are marked as removed, but not actually deleted. You cannot hide items in your library, either they are in it, or not. If you don't want to see the files delete them. You might want to save backup copies first.


tt2

3 replies
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Jan 13, 2023 4:36 PM in response to IpodLover1027

You are likely not getting an option to hide these tracks because they are already hidden. Do you have a subscription to Apple Music or iTunes Match? Deleting tracks from a cloud library will normally be replicated on any other cloud based library, but for downloaded tracks on a computer these are marked as removed, but not actually deleted. You cannot hide items in your library, either they are in it, or not. If you don't want to see the files delete them. You might want to save backup copies first.


tt2

songs from iPod not wanted

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.