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Removing Duplicates from iPhone

  • 20-09-2013 8:58pm
    #1
    markst33
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭


    Hi there,

    I am new to Apple devices. I have an iPhone4 and I uploaded some music to it and for some reason it uploaded the same album twice.

    However when I hook up the phone to my iMac and try to delete/remove the duplicate songs to free up some space, I can't see a way of doing this.

    Any ideas ?


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  • #2
    flyguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭flyguy


    Strange, maybe just syncing it again will fix it. Or uncheck sync music, sync the phone (so there will be no music) then check sync music and sync it again.
    If you actually have the duplicate music in your iTunes library you can just select "sync selected songs only" and obviously uncheck the songs you don't want to sync.


  • #3
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    If you just want to delete them directly from the phone, swipe left-to-right across each song, then hit delete.


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,487 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    mathepac wrote: »
    If you just want to delete them directly from the phone, swipe left-to-right across each song, then hit delete.

    Much easier to do it from iTunes. While viewing 'Music', click on View/Show Duplicate Items, then do your housekeeping.

    First, uncheck all bar one of each duplicate track in the music listing, then sync. which will remove the duplicates from the iPhone. You can then decide if you want to to delete the duplicate tracks from iTunes.

    If you've already created a lot of playlists, check if the track you're about to uncheck (effectively delete from the iPhone) is in a playlist. Right-click it and see if 'Show in Playlist...' appears below 'Add to playlist' in the lower part of the popup menu. If 'Show in playlist' appears, it means that that track is in one or more playlists, click on the option to see which playlist(s) contain that track. Chances are that the other occurance of that track (not in any playlist) is the one you need to uncheck.

    When you've finished housekeeping, click View/Show all items to reveal all of your music tracks.

    You typically end up with duplicate tracks because of compilation ('best of xxx' or 'the essential xxx') albums.


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