iTunes Match is broken in iOS 6
Steve Lawrence on Apple’s support forums
iTunes Match functionality seems to be crippled in iOS 6:
- You cannot swipe delete an individual song from your iPhone
- You cannot swipe delete an entire album from your iPhone
- You cannot download an individual track from an album, only the entire album
- When ‘Show all music’ is selected, you cannot tell which songs / albums are stored on your phone as it shows them all with no indication of whether they’re stored locally or in the cloud.
The impacts of all of this are:
- Once you have downloaded music to your iPhone, you can no longer delete it. Which means that eventually your iPhone will be full.
- You cannot decide to download just the tracks you want to listen to from an album any more. It’s the whole thing or nothing.
He’s right, too. My iTunes Match expires in December; based on this, and some other annoyances I’ve experienced, I don’t think I’ll be renewing the service, even though my full music collection won’t fit on my 32 GB iPhone. Perhaps I should have gone with the 64 GB model after all.