How to delete songs from your iPhone in iOS 7

iOS 7 isn’t just a different look for Apple’s mobile operating system: the way you accomplish tasks has changed in places, too. Here we explain how to delete songs on your iPhone, and get rid of iCloud songs that aren’t actually stored on your phone.

First of all, it’s necessary to point out that while we didn’t find any music we couldn’t delete from our test iPhone running iOS 7.0.4, some people have found certain music that they simply can’t remove directly on their iPhone. This could be down to iTunes Match or music purchased from iCloud, but we can’t replicate this problem.

See also: How to close apps in iOS 7

Regardless of whether we had purchased music on the iPhone itself or synched it from iTunes (both purchased from iTunes and ripped from CDs), we could delete any song we liked.

All you have to do is to find the song in your library and swipe left to reveal the red Delete button. Tap the button and the song is gone.

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