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Issue 1: Settings App -> Music -> Show Apple Music (toggle this off, obviously)

Issue 2: iTunes being so terrible is probably the best argument against resolving Issue 1.

I believe the default is not to automatically use Apple Music, though, and rather to prompt the user to try it. I know that I declined, and haven't seen it since.

Though the iOS Music app has been getting worse every year regardless. I keep meaning to write a replacement that just operates mostly the way it did until iOS 6 or 7.

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> Issue 1: Settings App -> Music -> Show Apple Music (toggle this off, obviously)

I was secretly hoping that somebody would post the solution to the problem, so I just excitedly opened up the Music section on my Ipod touch...only to find that there is no "Show Apple Music" slider. I just googled it again and found a page with your same solution[0] which says it should work on the ipod and includes a screenshot, but my ipod doesn't have that section. When I get home, I'll try disabling Apple Music on iTunes to see if that works.

I love living in the future.

[0]http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/31/hide-apple-music-ios-itunes/

So I have "Show Apple Music" set to off in Settings, yet still when I get out in the boonies with a really weak cell signal, opening Music will result in a black Apple Music splash page that never fully loads, blocking me from accessing all the music I've synced to my iPhone. I end up having to turn on Airplane Mode to access the songs on my device. It's so stupid.

This happens to me, too, about once a week. I get a splash screen that won't go away until I do a hard "force close" on the app.

> I keep meaning to write a replacement that just operates mostly the way it did until iOS 6 or 7.

We should partner up and procrastinate together.

> We should partner up and procrastinate together

I would join that club.

I'd think about it, but I'd never get to applying

> We should partner up and procrastinate together.

"Displacement Activity Swap Shop" http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Displacement_20Activity_20Swa...

Also go to

Settings App -> General -> Restrictions -> Apple Music Connect (toggle to off)

We did it! It worked!

So the trick is to first enable Restrictions, then toggle off Apple Music Connect, then do what bydo says in his comment above (Settings App -> Music -> Show Apple Music (off)).

Pretty intuitive really. Great work everybody.

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