Can anyone help with an iPhone glitch before I go completely bonkers

[swee'pea99]

I bought it for the photographic colours, and I've never regretted it, but sometimes I want to do something other than take photos and often as not I find it completely impossible.

I'd like to instal the latest version of ios, but I don't have enough room on my phone. Now unless I'm reading it wrong, this

...is telling me I have 27Gb of music files on the phone.

So I'm thinking why don't I delete a bunch, to make room for the IoS update.

So I google.

Makes sense. That's what I'd expect.

But when I go to try it, when I right-click I don't get a delete option. (Nor can I find one anywhere else) Instead I get:

Which is the bit where I start banging my head on the keyboard.

Why is it offering me the option to 'Add to Device'? Surely this

says I'm looking at the music that is already on the device, doesn't it?

If anyone has any answers/advice/tips I'd appreciate it.

 

[mistyoptic]

You can choose what music is synced with your phone. Perhaps you could change how much of your music is on the phone.

“Sync only selected songs” or something similar. I’m not in front of my pc but I think you have to click on the image of your device on the top menu line to get this option. Then you can choose by artist or genre or whatever. Once you resync, others will disappear from your phone

 

[Wheelspinner]

You don’t say which version you are currently on, but iTunes is quite old and obsolete so that AI response is not helpful.

First up though, are you using the iCloud option for your Music Library, which by default means you only ever stream it rather than rely on a local storage copy? But in any case…

In Music, go to Library then there should be a section called “Downloaded”. This is where it will show only the music actually stored locally on your phone. In this you can then select each Album, Song, Artist etc. then with the ellipsis menu top right you get the “Remove” or delete option.

Have to do it one by one which is a painfully slow process with a lot of content though.