iPad iOS 10 - Can I hide songs in the Music app that I have purchased?

Solution 1:

Yes, you can 'hide' them.

From the main screen, tap on Downloaded Music.

You'll then be on a screen which is basically exactly the same as the previous one with options for Albums, Artists, etc, which will only show music on your device.

To make it more accessible, I suggest tapping Edit in the main Library screen and dragging the Downloaded Music row up to the top. Note also that whatever you make visible or hidden on this Edit screen will also take effect on the Downloaded Music screen (eg making Compilations visible, Artists invisible, etc).

Note, there is no option to get rid of the initial Library screen. IE we want to effectively make the Downloaded Music screen the top level - there is no way to do that.

Solution 2:

Okay. This is super annoying... but I think I figured it out. If you pull up the original list of songs in your music and scroll by song, the cloud songs will show up with a cloud next to them. Click and hold each individual song and then click delete from library. Again, super annoying, but even after syncing my phone again on my computer those songs stayed deleted. Hope this helps!

Solution 3:

This feature does not exist on iOS10.

With iOS9 you could toggle "Only Downloaded Music" option from within the music app, which hid any purchases in the cloud (i.e. songs not actually downloaded to your device) from your device library.

As an alternative they have a Downloaded Music category in the Music app. However really the Downloaded Music category is not a sufficient option, nor is hiding all the purchases from our iTunes account (as this would make them unavailable on other devices if wanted).

The best suggestion I could make is provide feedback to Apple http://www.apple.com/feedback/ in the hopes that they restore such an option in the future.