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Apple Music not working

So I had an Apple Music free trial and I cancelled it so it wouldn’t make me pay. But when I try to search for the music that I downloaded on my free trial it doesn’t show up on the store so I can’t buy the songs/albums. If I search it on Apple Music itself it says I can’t buy it and I have to renew my trial. Will this fix at anytime or will I have to have a subscription for Apple Music?

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Mrd7935 wrote:

But when I try to search for the music that I downloaded on my free trial it doesn’t show up on the store

How are you performing this search? Are you spelling out the specifics of the song/album title? You should be. All music downloaded during your Apple Music trial is now gone.


I could not find that album in the iTunes Store (U.S.) either. But I did find it on Amazon.


It sounds like there’s some additional material you have not told us. Perhaps, for example, you changed regions. Perhaps restrictions are involved. Normally searches you performed during your Apple Music trial should show the same results after your trial.

The first picture is the music app itself this one is in the iTunes Store. It’s odd that it wouldn’t be in the store, unable to be bought, yet in Apple Music but needing a subscription.

I’ve traveled for the holidays but that’s it. I started the trial in the same place I ended it. I don’t know what restrictions there would be if there are any. If it helps as an example one of the albums I can’t find on the iTunes Store is called Ramona by Kill Bill: the Rapper. It’s absolutely nowhere on the iTunes Store at all and doesn’t even come up under the artist himself. Although if I look it up in Apple Music not the iTunes Store it’s there, but I can’t buy it and have to renew my trial in order to listen to it.

I give the artists and albums and I tried songs too and very few songs showed up but the majority of the songs and albums aren’t even on the store anymore.

I understand that the songs I downloaded on the free trial will be gone but I can’t even buy them permanently on the iTunes Store they don’t even show up.

You don’t need a subscription to just find it you need one to listen to it.

Try looking for it on Apple Music, not the store. It’s odd that it wouldn’t be on the store and you’d have to have a subscription for it.

Mrd7935 wrote:

Try looking for it on Apple Music, not the store.

You said you found it in Apple Music. I certainly believe you. I cannot look there as I am not an Apple Music subscriber.