How to download music you love from Apple Music Classical

Classical musicians playing violin by Larista Birta on Unsplash

Yes, you can actually download tracks from Apple Music Classical, but only to your broader Apple Music collection. This is how it is done:

It’s not so clear how this works, but it does work

Apple hasn’t made it particularly clear how it is possible to download tracks from the Classical app. In part this may be because the company hasn’t quite figured out how it wants to move forward with the app – it is, after all, plausible to imagine this as a spin out service made available without Apple Music across multiple platforms.

But right now, Apple Music Classical is an app-based service that augments Apple Music, in that you must have a subscription to the latter service to use the first. And this connection between the two services – and their libraries – is critical to saving/downloading tracks.

How to download tracks in Apple Music Classical

You have found a track or album in Apple Music Classical that you want to download to your device. Now do this:

1. Tap the ‘+’ symbol at the top-right of the song’s page.

1. Open the Apple Music app.
2. You should see the item you’ve just added in the Library section, usually in the Recently Added section. You can also search for the track/album.
3. Tap the track/album to open its page, and then tap the Download arrow a the top right of the page.
4. If you want to download an individual track from an album, just find it and tap the More button (the three dots) beside the track name to download it.

How it’s done in brief:

Want album/track? Tap ‘+’ in Classical, then find it in Apple Music Library, tap Download arrow to download to the device.

Now you have the music found in Apple Music Classical always available to you within Apple Music.

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