Restoring Apple Music media library after accidental subscription cancellation

I've had an Apple Music subscription for many years. I accidentally canceled the subscription and reconnected it. My entire media library has been deleted. How can I restore it? Please help me restore my media library in Apple Music.


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Original Title: Media library recovery

iPhone 11, iOS 18

Posted on Oct 25, 2025 2:04 PM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2025 8:08 AM

When you cancel an Apple Music subscription, the following stop working and can go away at any time:

  • Offline listening copies of subscription songs
  • Playlists containing subscription songs
  • "Sync Library" copies of songs (including purchased songs). E.g., if you had music from your own CDs on your Mac, and "Sync Library" put a copy on your iPhone, the iPhone copy would stop working when you allowed the subscription to lapse.


I don't believe that you get any of these back if you take out a subscription again. You have to build your playlists, and re-download offline listening copies, from scratch.


When you cancel an Apple Music subscription, it should leave original copes of purchased music (from CDs, from the iTunes Store, etc.) alone. You can re-download songs purchased from the iTunes Store directly from there … and you can presumably re-download all purchased music by manually synchronizing your iPhone and computer.

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Oct 26, 2025 8:08 AM in response to AnnaRomanenko

When you cancel an Apple Music subscription, the following stop working and can go away at any time:

  • Offline listening copies of subscription songs
  • Playlists containing subscription songs
  • "Sync Library" copies of songs (including purchased songs). E.g., if you had music from your own CDs on your Mac, and "Sync Library" put a copy on your iPhone, the iPhone copy would stop working when you allowed the subscription to lapse.


I don't believe that you get any of these back if you take out a subscription again. You have to build your playlists, and re-download offline listening copies, from scratch.


When you cancel an Apple Music subscription, it should leave original copes of purchased music (from CDs, from the iTunes Store, etc.) alone. You can re-download songs purchased from the iTunes Store directly from there … and you can presumably re-download all purchased music by manually synchronizing your iPhone and computer.

Restoring Apple Music media library after accidental subscription cancellation

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