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Also missing from Music.app: The ability to delete music from the device. Fortunately I still have some space left on my phone, but barring plugging the phone into iTunes, I don't know how to decrease the amount of music on my phone.

I'm with you: iTunes Radio is nice, but the rest of the music app feels a bit worse off.

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I can delete songs from my iOS 7 phone by swiping. I'm not sure which settings factor into this - it's being synced with iTunes via USB, and it's logged into iCloud but I doubt that makes a difference.

Strange, I can't get the swipe behavior in the Music app. I've yet to plug the phone into iTunes since the iOS 7 update, but whenever I swipe across an album or song, it acts as if I tapped it.

Swipe right to left, not left to right.

Huh. Works for tracks and playlists, not anything else, looks like. Still, much better than nothing. Thanks!

It's in Settings -> where ever the storage button is hidden these days -> Music. However, the option is only to delete all music.

I've seen that, and I guess as an iTunes Match subscriber I can be okay with that. It's just that I was able to delete individual songs/albums/artists off the phone in previous versions, so I was anticipating that here.

In any list of songs, I can swipe right to left to get a Delete button. All my music is synced from iTunes.

That may be part of it; I never plug my phone into my desktop, and I get my music on my phone via iTunes Match. But whether or not I have Match enabled on the device, I'm still not able to delete tracks/albums/etc with this behavior.

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