“When Apple updated the Music app in iOS 8.4, the company added Apple Music. This streaming service is tightly integrated into iOS (and iTunes, on the desktop),” Kirk McElhearn reports for Kirkville. “In fact, it’s so well integrated that you can’t turn it off.”
“There’s a setting in Settings > Music that lets you toggle Apple Music’s visibility,” McElhearn reports. “But there’s nothing that turns Apple Music off entirely.”
“You can see this by asking Siri to play some music,” McElhearn reports. “As long as you have an Apple Music subscription – trial or paid – and you’re signed into your account, Siri will play music from Apple Music, sometimes even when you already have music by the same artist on your iOS device.”
“You can have Siri play local music by saying ‘Play Grateful Dead from My Music.’ This should be the default, however, not the exception,” McElhearn writes. “If I have music by an artist on my device, it should play the local music, not something from Apple Music.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Oh, the humanity. Facetiousness aside, Kirk is right Siri should play local music by default, if it exists on the device if only to save users from burning cellular data unnecessarily. For now, be specific with Siri and append “from My Music” to your requests or, less elegantly but quite effective, under Setting>Cellular>Use Cellular Data For, simply turn off Music.
This is the same bullshit that we always used to accuse Microsoft of doing — all the background processes that are never revealed to the user, and the confusing controls that don’t actually control what you think they do. Apple Music is proof positive that the company no longer gives a shit what users want. It’s all about selling the subscription. Apple, stop this insanity.
You are so full of it. You actually have the gall to equate this situation with Microsoft’s long history of villainy? You must have forgotten that you are posting to people who lived that history and can see through your histrionic bullshit. This is a trivial issue by any measure.
Sorry KingMel, replacing my music with network connected music is bullshit. I don’t want that. ATT throttling my download speed because AM kept playing music from the cloud that I own. If Apple wants to join in the class action suit against ATT for throttling, super. So far it hasn’t. I’ve turned off everything in Apple Music on my device this crap. That is bullshit.
“replacing my music with network connected music”
That’s not what’s happening, nor what the original author is complain about.
He saying he’s signed into Apple Music and when he asks for music to be played by a particular group, rather than just play music from his library, it’s ALSO picking stuff (he doesn’t own) from the streaming service.
If you’re signed into the streaming service, of course Siri is going to assume you want to hear what ever is available – be it, streamed or played locally – that’s the point of the service!!!!
I agree that this is very Microsoftian. Come on, Apple. You’re better than this. If you have to force yourself on us, we really don’t want what you’re offering. It’s almost like Apple is becoming Big Brother…and all I’m thinking is that how different the company has become since running its famous 1984 ad.
I agree this is an issue especial since Apple plays explicit songs in all music stream. I have thinned down many artist catalogs to be safe around my 8 year olds child and Apple just loves throwing in an F-this or similar into whatever they play.
Wow. I didn’t know that. I’m so glad I’m not a subscriber to Apple music.
Yeah, I’d rather own things than rent them.
I have enough music to not bother with apple music.
First of all, it WILL NOT stream a track from Apple Music if you have the same track stored locally in your own library – it will play the local version.
Second, if you’re signed into Apple Music, of course it is going to assume you want to play any and every song released by the band/group you requested! Isn’t that the point of signing up for Apple Music in the first place?
Are you certain of this? I heard Andy Ihnatko make that exact same complaint — that Siri would stream a song rather than play the version he had on his phone. (I don’t have AM myself. And BTW, wasn’t the track limit on library size for iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library supposed to be upped to 100,000 by today (i.e. when iOS 9 shipped)?
I’m all for making noise about this choice by Apple. Very poor decision Apple! At least force the user to ASK for Apple Music OR local music making them equal choices. Defaulting to Apple Music is ridiculous and user hostile.
Thank you Kirk for pointing this out!
There are probably users that feel one or the other is better.. Just make it an settings option and the set it initially to limit Apple Music use to only local library if not on a Wifi connection.
Huh?!!!?
Settings->Music-Show Apple Music
Hopefully, it’s self-explanatory from there.
Never mind. Now I see. Er, hear.