How to Turn off iCloud Music Library on iPhone, Mac, and PC

iCloud Music Library is a great feature that lets Apple users sync and share all the music tracks from Apple Music and iTunes to all devices. However, by enabling this service, you may encounter unexpected errors like:

* Songs are synced with missing or mismatched album artwork
* Tracks show wrong metadata
* live tracks matched to their studio versions
* Albums or songs refuse to sync
* ...

The more complex your music library is, the more likely the issues occur. Instead of finding a fix to those bugs, the better solution is to turn off iCloud Music Library on your devices. How? The following content will show you the complete guide to disable iCloud Music Library on your Mac, PC, and iPhone step by step.

Things You Should Know before Disabling iCloud Music Library

Before we start to teach you how to disable iCloud Music Library, you are recommended to think about whether you need to close it. And we also have a significant suggestion for you before you start to turn iCloud Music Library off.

What Is iCloud Music Library

Launched in 2015, iCloud Music Library is the cloud-based service of Apple, which is used for the music downloaded from Apple Music. It enables you to synchronize songs, playlists, and albums automatically to iOS devices with the iCloud account. You can use this feature only if you purchase the $9.99 plan of Apple Music or pay $24.99 a year for iTunes Match. You can download up to 100,000 songs to up to 10 admitted devices. But the song cannot be larger than 200 MB or longer than 2 hours. iCloud Music Library will replace the songs with a higher quality version automatically. But you cannot sync music from iTunes to iPhone manually.

What Will Happen if You Disable iCloud Music Library

Although turning off iCloud Music Library is a permanent solution to avoid syncing errors, you'll however lose access to music files including a cloud-based copy of your iTunes library, any saved songs from the Apple Music catalog, and other tracks you uploaded to iCloud to stream on other devices. And you cannot listen to Apple Music offline. If you decide to turn off iCloud Music Library, it is necessary to back up songs from Apple Music in advance.

How to Back up Apple Music Song without iCloud Music Library

Due to the restrictions of Apple Music, Once you turn off the iCloud Music Library, you will lose all your Apple Music downloaded songs and you won't be able to play Apple Music offline anymore. So, if you still want to listen to Apple Music songs offline on your devices, you can do some tricks as below to back up Apple Music without the iCloud Music Library by downloading and converting Apple Music songs.

Here's a tool called ViWizard Audio Converter which can help you easily back up your Apple Music and iTunes playlists. ViWizard Audio Converter is a tool that aims in converting Apple Music to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, and other open formats. This tool supports converting Apple Music at 30X faster speed and keeps the lossless quality. You can also open the format window to adjust the parameters of the output audio, such as sample rate, bit rate, channel, and volume.

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• Losslessly remove DRM from Apple Music and iTunes Music
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How to Back up Apple Music on Computer Using ViWizard Audio Converter

Here we will show you how to convert Apple Music for offline playing on your devices permanently. Please download and install the converter by clicking the the download link above. You can choose the Windows or Mac version. Finally, ensure the iTuens app has been installed on your PC. Now, let's have a look.

Step 1Open ViWizard and Import Apple Music Files

Firstly launch ViWizard Audio Converter. Then click the Music Note button to load the Apple Music songs you've downloaded on your Apple Music library. In the popup window, select the music you want to convert and click OK to confirm. Or you can head to the folder where the downloaded Apple Music are stored and directly drag the files to the interface of ViWizard.

Step 2Select Output Audio Format

Move to the Format section at the bottom left and click the MP3 button. There you can set the output format, codec, channel, sample rate, bit rate, etc. according to your needs. Remember to tap the OK button to save all your settings.

Step 3Click to Start the Back up

Click the Convert button at the bottom right to begin converting the Apple Music songs to MP3. After the conversion is done, just click the Converted icon to locate those well-converted Apple Music songs. Now the Apple Music songs are saved on your computer.

How to Turn off iCloud Music Library

When you decide to turn off iCloud Music Library, you can follow the guides in this part. We will introduce the method on iPhone, iPad, and iPod as well as the method on Mac or PC. By the way, when you only disable iCloud Music Library on some devices, the feature on other devices will not be affected.

Disable iCloud Music Library on iPhone, iPad, iPod

Follow these steps if you want to disable iCloud Music Library on your iOS devices.

Step 1. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, go to Settings > Music.

Step 2. Scroll down to the iCloud Music Library setting.

Step 3. Uncheck the iCloud Music Library option.

Disable iCloud Music Library on Mac/PC

To turn off iCloud music on your Mac or PC, you can follow the instructions below:

Step 1. Open iTunes on the computer.

Step 2. Go to iTunes > Preferences.

Step 3. Under the General tab, uncheck the iCloud Music Library option.

Summary

If you want to turn off iCloud Music Library, you'd better know what it brings to you and what will you lose after the disabling. To summarize, you can only manually sync the Apple Music songs to other devices and cannot listen to Apple Music offline. So, you need a tool like ViWizard Audio Converter to convert Apple Music so that you can easily listen to Apple Music offline and sync to other devices you like.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.