Last week Apple released U2’s latest studio album “Songs of Innocence” as a free download to all iTunes users. But this may turn into a massive #fail. Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phones without providing their consent:
U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence, shows up in iTunes libraries as purchased, whether users have chosen to buy it or not. That’s made a lot of people angry, as it’s nearly impossible to get rid of the album.
Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phones since Tuesday. But even if iTunes users hadn’t chosen automatic downloads, Songs of Innocence will still be displayed as an “iTunes in the Cloud” purchase. That means it will still be shown as part of your music library, even if you delete all the tracks. The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your “iTunes in the Cloud” purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list.
Predictably, some users are iRate at this because they didn’t give their permission, they can’t get rid of it, and the tracks occupy space on a iDevice with non-expandable memory. That’s completely understandable. If Apple ever does this in the future, they may wish to rethink how to do it as this method is clearly not making some users happy.
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Some Apple Users iRate As Apple Automatically Installs U2 Album On Their iDevices
Last week Apple released U2’s latest studio album “Songs of Innocence” as a free download to all iTunes users. But this may turn into a massive #fail. Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phones without providing their consent:
U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence, shows up in iTunes libraries as purchased, whether users have chosen to buy it or not. That’s made a lot of people angry, as it’s nearly impossible to get rid of the album.
Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phones since Tuesday. But even if iTunes users hadn’t chosen automatic downloads, Songs of Innocence will still be displayed as an “iTunes in the Cloud” purchase. That means it will still be shown as part of your music library, even if you delete all the tracks. The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your “iTunes in the Cloud” purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list.
Predictably, some users are iRate at this because they didn’t give their permission, they can’t get rid of it, and the tracks occupy space on a iDevice with non-expandable memory. That’s completely understandable. If Apple ever does this in the future, they may wish to rethink how to do it as this method is clearly not making some users happy.
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