How to move Apple Music to SD card?

Apple Music for Android users can download songs onto SD cards. This feature lets Android listeners "keep more music offline" - and potentially more music than any iPhone or iPad can store.

In this article, we will also show you how to download Apple Music to your iPhone, iPad SD card . The downloaded songs will not disappear even after you cancel Apple Music subscription , of course this way also apply to Android users.

Option 1 Download Apple Music to SD card on Android

Apple Music for android allows you to save music on an SD card. The ability to move a music catalog to external storage is an easy way to free up storage on your smartphone. Here's how to move your Apple Music library to an SD card:

Step 1. Open Apple Music, slide out the Menu and tap on Settings.

Step 2. Find and tap Download Location

Step 3 Tap "Yes" on the pop-up window.

After that, when you download Apple Music songs on your Android, they will be saved to the SD card.

Option 2 Move Apple Music to SD card on iOS

iOS users may feel disappointed since Apple Music for iOS doesn't have above "save to sd card" feature, which means iOS users can't download songs to sd card directly. However, you can download Apple Music songs on your Mac/PC and then transfer them to your SD card. Here we don't refer to download m4p songs since they are drm protected. To play Apple Music from your SD card, you need to download the songs to drm-free format such as mp3, m4a etc. Follow below steps to download Apple Music to DRM-free songs.

Step 1. Run Apple Music Converter

Download, install and run Apple Music Converter for Mac or Apple Music Converter for Windows .

Step 2. Check Apple Music songs

Add the Apple Music songs, albums or playlists to iTunes library first. Then Apple Music Converter will load them automatically. Check the songs. albums or playlists you want to download.

Step 3. Click Convert button

Click Convert button to start downloading Apple Music songs to your computer in mp3 format.

Step 4. Transfer Apple Music songs to SD card

Plug your phone's SD card to this computer and transfer the downloaded Apple Music songs. Then plug it back to your iPhone or Android to play them offline. In this way you can download more songs without worring about your phone's memory. What's more important, these downloaded songs are still playable even after you cancel Apple Music subscription .