“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.