How to add, cache, search for, and delete songs from Apple’s new Music app

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Apple Music aside, Apple's new Music app is a fully featured jukebox all its own.

For some, the advent of Apple Music will mean their own personal collections will become small seas in the giant oceans of the full iTunes catalog. For others, however, who don't want streaming, Music is still the place or organize and enjoy all your iTunes—and iTunes Match music. That includes adding music, searching for it, caching it for local playback, removing it from cache, and deleting it from your library.

Note: To use Apple's new Music app, you need to be running iOS 8.4 or later.

How to add songs to Music

There are two ways to add music to Apple's new music app.

Buy it from the iTunes Store and, once it's downloaded, it'll appear in the Music app.
Subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, upload your non-iTunes Music to Apple's servers, and download it from there into the Music app.

There's still no way to add non-iTunes music directly to the Music app, but there are other apps that can either play music from online storage services, or stream it from your computer.

How to search for songs in Music

There's a new, universal search in the Music app that can find songs both locally on your device and in Apple's online services. If you don't subscribe to Apple Music, that includes the free radio channels.

Tap the magnifying glass button at the top right.
Tap the My Music tab, also top right.
Enter the name of the song you want to find. If you don't remember the song title, enter the name of the artist or album and go from there.

You can also access recent searches to find something again:

Tap the magnifying glass button at the top right.
Tap the clock icon at the right of the search bar.
Tap any recent result to repeat the search.
Tap Clear at the top left, and tap Clear Recent Searches to remove the results list.

How to browse for songs in Music

There aren't separate tabs in the new Music app for categories like artists, songs, or albums, but you can access all those categories and more with just a couple of taps.

Tap on the My Music tab.
Tap on category button (it defaults to Artists) at the top of the song list.
Tap on the category you want to sort by (albums, songs, music videos, genres, composers, or compilations).

How to download songs for local playback

If you're going to be going offline, including flights or subways or inter-regional travel without Wi-Fi access, you can download songs, albums, playlists, or entire artists locally to your device to make sure they're available for playback anywhere, any time.

Tap the More button (looks like •••) to the right of the artist, album, playlist, or song.
Tap the Make Available Offline button.
Tap the Downloads tab to see and manage the caching.

Music available for offline playback has a small device icon at the top right of the More button.

How to remove downloaded songs from cache

If you ever decide you don't want downloaded music on your device, for example, to save on storage space, you can remove it from the local cache.

Tap the More button (looks like •••) to the right of the artist, album, or song you want to remove.
Tap the Remove Download button.

Once music is removed from the local cache, the device icon will disappear from it's former place, at the top right of the More button.

How to delete songs from your Music library

If you want to delete a song completely from your library, such that it doesn't even appear as an entry any more. (You'll still be able to restore it later, should you ever want to, from the deleted purchases section of iTunes on your desktop.)