Apple this week with the announcement of the all-new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus more than 500 million iTunes users get a free copy of the brand new U2 album Innocence Songs. The problem isn’t the free album, it’s that Apple forced the whole album out to everyone. Below we will explain how to quickly delete or remove free U2 album from iTunes or your iPhone.
U2 made a surprise appearance by performing a song from their new album Songs of Innocence live on stage, and then everyone instantly noticed it on their smartphones, iTunes or iCloud. Obviously, users will prefer to download rather than force, and many users are not very happy with this move.
After tons of backlash on Facebook and Twitter, this morning Apple released a U2 Album removal tool to help users remove this unwanted album and clear some of this valuable space for its users. Read on for all the details.
While U2 has millions of fans all over the world, not everyone wants their music on their device or iTunes and didn’t like that Apple did this automatically instead of offering a free download page or opt-in option. Instead, he gave the album to everyone without asking.
When users woke up, they found the brand new U2 album for free on iTunes, iCloud, iPhones, and even people with an old iPod, without asking. Free stuff is nice, but not when they’re forced on you. This caused quite a stir, not to mention that many of the interpretations of the new music were mixed. Below are some pretty funny Twitter reactions from the free album, and instructions for quickly removing it if you wish.
https://twitter.com/_LetsReminisce/status/509614484877770752
#Apple and #U2 broke another record: “The most deleted album of all time”!
— ℒÅℕℂℇ ➡️ #MVPSummit (@lancewmccarthy) September 15, 2014
and my favorite ever
On the other hand, your ringtone has been changed to ‘Good Day’ and Bono is now your friend on Facebook.
— Tom Bromley (@BromleyEsq) September 10, 2014
Whether you’re a fan of the U2 or not, you might want to save that precious space on your 16GB iPhone or make room for other music in iTunes; How to do this is explained below.
Instructions
After all the complaints and comments (as we showed above), Apple quickly made a move to keep customers happy by releasing a removal tool. Even if you delete the songs from your iPhone, they remain in iTunes or iCloud. Fortunately, though a quick click will remove it completely.
Just start by going to: this is the U2 Removal tool pagethen follow the instructions that will get users going https://itunes.com/soi-remove.
Hit Remove Album, you will be prompted to sign in to your Apple account and then you will receive a notification that you have successfully removed the U2 album from your account.
Apple also wants users to know that this is a free gift, and it will remain free until October 13, 2014 (even if you remove it now). Users will not be able to re-download as “previous purchase” and if they choose. then they will have to take it again. It will remain free until October 13 and will be available for purchase after that date.
Also, if you’ve downloaded the songs to iTunes on your Mac or PC or the Music app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you’ll need to: delete them manually.
Fortunately, Apple has provided this quick help guide, removal tool, and additional instructions and information for removing the free U2 album because we received a lot of negative feedback from the move. With over half a billion people owning albums in a day, it’s technically the biggest album release in history, but we’ll have to put an asterisk next to it in the record books.
Have you listened to the free music or have you already deleted it? Let us know in the comments below.
