Apple's giveaway of U2's new album has hit a sour note with some users who are complaining that the forced download is eating up precious space on their iPhones.
The album, "Songs of Innocence," showed up in users' iTunes libraries following the Apple event on Tuesday. If you chose the automatic download option in iTunes, the track will show up in your library. Otherwise, it will appear in your iCloud account. As the BBC notes, the album is easy to delete on desktop. On mobile, you can get rid of it by swiping left over each track to reveal the "delete" option and then dump it.
The album takes up about 72 MB of space; the average iPhone has 16 GB of memory, but much of that is take up by the OS and apps.
Not everyone got the memo that you could delete the album, though. On Thursday morning, many took to Twitter to complain:
Yooo, @tim_cook @AppStore @macworld how do I delete this damn U2 album?
— DJ HOT SAUCE (@DJHOTSAUCE) September 11, 2014
Basically, if you want to delete the new U2 album, you have to buy it. Genius.
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) September 11, 2014
.@U2 hey, I already get notifications about my storage being full. I can't delete ur album & clearly no one else can. Plz provide a tutorial
— bria simone (@briaeffinsimone) September 11, 2014
Hi @tim_cook my iPhone has a virus called "U2" how do I uninstall it?
— Owen Williams (@ow) September 11, 2014
I'm trying to preemptively purge any other objects that might try to force U2 on me today. Have tossed: toaster, fridge, toilet, showerhead.
— dan sinker (@dansinker) September 11, 2014
Many also compared the free U2 album to Samsung's free copy of Jay Z's "Magna Carter Holy Grail" for owners of the Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4 or Galaxy Note II. That was an optional download, though, not a compulsory one.