Delete music, movies and TV shows from your device

Remove content that you downloaded to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or Android device.

Delete music and music videos

  • To delete music from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, use the Apple Music app or the Settings app.
  • To delete music from your Mac or Android device, use the Apple Music app.

How to delete items in the Apple Music app

How to delete music in Settings on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap General, then tap iPhone Storage or iPad Storage.
  3. Scroll to Music, then tap it.
  4. Swipe left on any artist, album or song. Or if you want to delete all music, swipe left on All Songs.
  5. Tap Delete.
    iPhone showing what happens when you swipe left on the artist The Jonas Brothers and the option to delete appears.

More about deleting music that you purchased

If you deleted an item from your device and you don't want the item to stream to your device or appear in the cloud, hide the item.

If you used your computer and a USB cable to manually sync the music or music videos to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, turn off syncing.

Delete movies and TV shows

  • To delete videos that you downloaded to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, use the Apple TV app or the Settings app.
  • To delete videos that you downloaded to your Mac, use the Apple TV app.

Delete items in the Apple TV app

Delete movies or TV shows in Settings on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap General, then tap iPhone Storage or iPad Storage.
  3. Scroll to TV, tap it, then tap Review Apple TV Downloads. If you don't see Review Apple TV Downloads, you don't have anything downloaded to your device.
  4. Find the movie, show or episode that you want to delete, then swipe left on it and tap Delete.
    iPhone showing what happens when you swipe left on a movie or TV show that you downloaded and the option to delete appears.

If you can't delete your movies or TV shows

If you see the download button next to the item, the item is stored in the cloud and isn't using storage on your device. If you don't want the item to appear in the cloud, hide the item.

If you used your computer and a USB cable to manually sync movies and TV shows to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, turn off syncing.

Movie rentals automatically delete at the end of the rental period.

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