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Apple Music won’t download songs? In this article, we will dig deep into the reasons why Apple Music cannot download songs. Keep reading and you will find the solutions to tackle these issues with amazing Apple Music downloader – TunesBank.

“Some songs are grayed out on Apple Music and I cannot download them”, “When I try to download songs as before, they cannot be downloaded for some reasons”, “Apple Music songs can’t be downloaded to the local drive,” there are still many such problems like these.

By subscribing to Apple Music, you can stream more than 75 million songs on Apple Music and download for offline listening. However, sometimes you cannot download Apple Music songs for various reasons such as we mentioned above, so why Apple Music won’t download songs? In this post, we will list its reasons, and the solutions to conquer this difficulties.

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Part 1. Why Apple Music Won’t Download Songs?

1) Your device is not connect to the Internet.

2) You have the poor network connection.

3) Your PC or device is unstable (sudden shutdown, panic, etc.).

4) Your PC or device have insufficient memory.

5) You have downloaded to another device.

6) iCloud Music Library is turned off.

7) There has problem with Apple’s music server.

Part 2. Workaround the Apple Music Won’t Download Songs

If your songs won’t be downloaded on Apple Music because of the reasons above, please refer to the following workarounds.

1) Check the Internet Connection
You can’t do anything without Internet connection online. If your iOS device can’t connect to Wi-Fi, you can use cellular data to instead of. Please refer to specific steps below.

Step 1. Select ‘Settings’ to the settings window.

Step 2. Tap on ‘Music’ and then find the ‘STREAMING & DOWNLOADS’.

Step 3. Switch on the button of ‘Use Cellular Data’.

ios cellular data

2) Delete Songs and Download Again
If the network becomes unstable while downloading songs, the data inside may be corrupted and you may not be able to play the songs.

Under such circumstance, please try to listen to the song offline to see if there are any errors. If error occurs, you can delete the downloaded song files and then download them again.

3) Restart your Device
If your Apple Music can’t work well, this most likely because the background applications or junk files running on your device. You can clear junk files and close some background applications by restarting your device.

4) Free Up Memory on your Device
If you have downloaded too many Apple Music songs on your device, or if your memory have filled with other files, you may not be able to download them due to insufficient space. Then you can check your devices’ available storage space.

iphone storage

Open ‘Settings’ icon > ‘General’ > ‘iPhone Storage’, you can see how much memory each App takes.

In these cases, you need to free up space by deleting unwanted photos, music, videos, Apps, and cleaning up your download cache.

5) Restart Apple Music App or iTunes
If you click the ‘Download’ button and the App does not respond, the Apple Music or iTunes software maybe stuck.

For Mac or Windows version computer, you can force quit iTunes App by using the force quit window or the Windows Task Manager.

For Android phone or iPhone, you can just close the Apple Music App directly.

close Apple Music app

Then open the program again.

6) Update Apple Music App or iTunes
Due to the lower version of Apple Music App or iTunes, there may be problems and you may not be able to download. Then please update to the latest version.

Step 1. Go to the ‘App Store’ , then hit on ‘Updates’ option.

Step 2. Find the ‘Apple Music’ tab, press the ‘UPDATE’ button to update to the latest version.

7) Turn off and Turn on the iCloud Music
iCloud Music Library enables you to sync music from your own music library, photos and so on. But it may also be the main reason why you can’t download Apple Music songs.

turn on icloud music library on iphone

Step 1. On iOS device, open ‘Settings’ > ‘Music’ tab.

Step 2. Find the ‘iCloud Music Library’ to turn it off.

Step 3. Wait a moment then turn the ‘iCloud Music Library’ on.

8) Check the Server Status of Apple Music
Except for these reasons above, if your songs won’t be downloaded on Apple Music still, maybe is the server problems. However, the chance of server problems is very small. But if there is a problem with your Apple Music server, you have to wait until the Apple Music server issue is fixed. Or you can contact Apple for help. There may be potential problems that only they can solve.

After using the methods we mentioned above, your songs won’t be downloaded on Apple Music still, we will recommend an ultimate way to help you download and save any number of songs from Apple Music by using an Apple Music downloader – TunesBank Apple Music Converter.

Part 3. Ultimate Way to Download Apple Music Songs

Apple Music tracks are encrypted with DRM protection, which prevent users from copying and transferring Apple Music songs to other devices not authorized by Apple Music. This makes things difficult to listen to Apple Music on other devices.

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a profession-grade Apple Music downloader. By using it, you can effortlessly crack DRM protection from Apple Music tracks and download Apple Music songs to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, AC3, AU or AIFF without touching any sound quality. Moreover, it can help you download Apple Music song to local drive for offline listening. In addition, it can support you batch downloading Apple Music tracks at up to 10X faster speed with 100% lossless quality and all ID3 tags saved, including title, artist, album, etc. In this way, you can download songs from Apple Music permanently, and you can enjoy Apple Music songs anytime, anywhere without any limits.

Core Features of TunesBank Apple Music Converter:

  • Crack DRM from Apple Music tracks, iTunes music and audiobooks.
  • Download Apple Music as MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC, FLAC, AC3, etc.
  • Losslessly download Apple Music up to 10X speed and batch downloading.
  • Save all ID3 Tags and metadata information, including Title, Album, Artist, etc.
  • Keep Apple Music songs as local files permanently even canceling subscribe.
  • Enjoy Apple Music on any device without install Apple Music or iTunes App.
  • Easy-to-use operation and friendly, concise user-interface, no skill requires.
  • Strongly compatible with the latest iTunes APP, Mac OS 10.11-11 & Windows 11.
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Guide: Keep Downloaded Apple Music to Computer for Any Device

The following detailed guide will show you how to download Apple Music songs to MP3, because MP3 is popular and can be compatible with the majority of devices and players.

Step 1. Launch TunesBank Apple Music Converter
After download and install the TunesBank Apple Music Converter on your computer, launch the program. You need to sign with your Apple ID and password to get access your music library.

launch the converter and sign in Apple ID

Step 2. Add Apple Music Songs to TunesBank
Open a “playlist” in the left side, then entire Apple Music tracks will loaded in the main interface. Drag the songs or the whole playlist to the “+” icon.

add Apple Music playlist

Select the songs you want to download or the whole playlist by ticking the checkbox.

Select Apple Music Songs

Step 3. Select Output Format
Click on the Menu bar (three horizontal lines) and choose “Preference”, a Settings window pops up. You are able to customize the output format as various popular formats, output quality, output folder, codec, bit rate, sample rate, etc. according to your needs.

customize output settings

Here you can choose MP3 as your output format.

Select MP3 Output Formats

Step 4. Start to Download Apple Music Songs
Hit on “Convert” button to download Apple Music songs as MP3 or other popular formats. Unlike other converters on the market, those programs do not support add more songs to the “Converting” list during the conversion is starting, but TunesBank allows you to go back to “Library” and import more songs to “Converting” list.

Convert Apple Music to MP3

Step 5. Get the Downloaded Apple Music Songs
After the downloading, click “Finished” to view all the downloaded songs, and then press “View Output File” button to open the output folder and you can get all the downloaded songs.

get Apple Music MP3 files

The Bottom Lines

Apple Music won’t download songs is a annoying things. You can check the reasons we listed according to the problem of your device to see which one is suitable for your current problem. If there is no suitable one, or you do not want to spend a lot of time, you can ask help from TunesBank Apple Music Converter, with it, you can download Apple Music songs to various formats and keep them forever to your local drive. In this way, you can enjoy Apple Music songs on any player and device anytime without any restrictions.

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