Here's the easiest way to find your offline music on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Apple Music is a streaming service that offers to make almost the entire iTunes catalog available to you almost all the time. Whether you're not going to be connected to the internet, worried about cellular data usage, or you just want to see what music you have stored locally on your iPhone or iPad, here's a quick and easy way to view those tracks (as well as how to remove them if you no longer want them stored on your device).
How to view songs you've saved locally to your iPhone or iPad
- Launch the Music app from your Home screen.
- Tap on the My Music tab.
- Select the view type dropdown (by default, it reads "Albums") from the middle of the screen.
- Switch Show Music Available Offline to on at the bottom of the pop-up.

To reverse this, tap the dropdown again and turn the Show Music Available Offline switch off.
If you've downloaded entire albums or playlists, you'll also be able to tell if they're locally stored even without enabling the "Show Music Available Offline" switch: Just view the album or playlist; if it's been saved offline, you'll see a tiny grey iPhone icon in the upper right corner.
How to remove songs from your iPhone or iPad
- Make sure the Show Music Available Offline switch (found within the view type dropdown in My Music) is enabled.
- Change the view type dropdown to whatever you're looking to delete—albums, genres, songs, etc.

- Tap the More button (looks like •••)
- Tap Remove Downloads.
How to add songs, listen offline on your Mac, and more
For more info on offline listening, as well as how to view your offline songs on your Mac, check out our full guide to listening to Apple Music offline.
Rock on
There you have it—offline listening, at your fingertips. If you're running into problems or can't quite make this work, feel free to shout in the comments and we'll try and get things rolling.
Reader comments
How to view offline music on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
This is something that Apple needs to change in my opinion, it's way too many steps to see your offline music. I understand the concept.. I guess.. It's just seems complicated and unnecessary.
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What to turn a switch off? If you were looking to listen to your music then you have already done the first few steps so you are just choosing what you want to see, like you would with any music player.
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No smart Alec, to turn the switch off for 356 songs, yes that's a pain in the butt there should be a way to do all the songs at once and presently there is not
I agree it is rather hidden, but at least it's in the app now, it used to be in the Settings app, definitely more steps then.
This is very helpful. One question: how do you download multiple items for offline listening in an existing playlist? If I add a new playlist from Apple Music, then tell it to make available offline, it downloads all the tracks. If I add a song or two to my music, then add them to an existing playlist, then tap the top make available offline, it does nothing. I have to find the new songs individually and download them individually.
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In iOS 9 this is all broken. I kept having trouble with downloads, so I finally said forget it and just stream (I have unlimited data). When I look under About on my phone, it tells me I have 45-50 songs on my device, but if I look in the Music app, I don't have anything offline. I really hope they fix this soon. The other issue is that, without any warning, I've had the phone delete all the songs I had downloaded (around 3,100). Not cool, Apple. Not cool.
Go to your dictionary and look up the definition of Beta software.
If you run iOS 9, you should expect some features to be broken and you should inform Apple.
It is "not cool" for you to run a Beta and then complain something does not work.
Make sure iCloud Music library is Turned On. That fixed a lot of my missing music.
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No, I'm not complaining about 9. I'm just commenting that it is broken. Just sharing. BTW- Some of this was happening on 8.4 too. It's not just 9.
I followed your steps on making my music available offline. No good, I get a pop up with a message "This song can't be played" then below that states To remove all Apple Music Songs, disable iCloud Music Library from Music in the settings app. I definitely don't want to do that. I have gone on Apple.com, I have called support and I even brought it to the Apple Store with no solution.