A blog post has been making the rounds since Thursday, saying that Apple Stole My Music. James Pinkstone, writing on his company’s blog, tells a tale of losing 122GB of music files because of Apple Music. Plenty of websites are trumpeting this story, saying that Apple Music is the big bad wolf. But I’m afraid that isn’t the case.
The author of this blog post begins by citing a bit of a conversation he had with one Amber, an Apple tech support person:
“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
“Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?”
“Yes,” she replied.
Amber is wrong. Neither Apple Music nor iCloud Music Library deletes music files. This simply doesn’t happen.
Read the rest of the article on Macworld.