Shut off Cloud Music Library
iOS 18.3; OS 10.15.7 Catalina; subscribed recently to Apple Music
I want to download an album from my late 2012 iMac to my iPhone 16. I store my music on my iMac using an external SSD, not in my iCloud account. Before subscribing to Apple Music a few months ago, I had always manually synced only selected music to my iPhone.
When I open a finder window on my iMac showing the iPhone and click the Music tab, I no longer see all the music on iMac to manually sync with my iPhone. I instead see "iPhone is using Cloud Music Library. You can play and download songs on all your devices. To sync music from this computer, turn off Cloud Music Library." Other advice here says "Turn it off on your iPhone: Settings > Music > Sync Library."
When I try to do that, I see a warning "This will remove all Apple Music content and downloads from your library on this device."
I now have about 30 albums on my iPhone. Before subscribing to Apple Music, I downloaded them from my iMac. None of the music is from Apple Music. I do not store music in my iCloud account. I do not want to lose any of those downloads, either on my iPhone or my iMac. I want to only add one or two to my phone from my iMac.
Does the warning apply only to music from Apple Music, and not to music on my iMac?
iPhone 16 Plus, iOS 18