How to see how many songs you have on your iPhone, and how much storage space those songs are taking up

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How to see how many songs you have on your iPhone, and how much storage space those songs are taking up

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You can see how many songs you have on your iPhone in just a few steps.

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No matter which iPhone you own, it can store a significant number of songs, which is handy for listening to music offline, when you can't use a streaming service like Spotify or Apple Music.

But if you're a music lover, your song collection has the potential to get out of hand and use up most of your phone's storage space.

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If you're concerned that your music is taking up too much space on your iPhone, it's easy to keep tabs on your collection.

Your iPhone makes it easy to find out how many songs you have downloaded to your phone, and how much storage space they're taking up - though these two bits of information are stored in different places.

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Here's how to see both.

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How to see how many songs you have on your iPhone

1. Start the Settings app.

2. Tap "General."

3. Tap "About."

4. Scroll down to find "Songs." You should see how many songs are currently stored on your iPhone.

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You can see how many songs are stored on your iPhone in the About page of Settings.

How to see how much storage space your songs take up on your iPhone

1. Start the Settings app.

2. Tap "General."

3. Tap "iPhone Storage." On the iPhone Storage page, you should see a graph at the top that illustrates how much space each kind of file is taking on your phone, including apps, photos, mail, media, and more.

4. Scroll down to "Music." You should see the total amount of storage space being used by your music.

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The iPhone Storage section of the Settings app tracks how much space your music is taking.

If you want to delete some or all of your music to free up storage space, read our article, "How to delete music from your iPhone, with an easy method for deleting all of it at once."

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