IPhone – Stop songs shuffling in iOS Music app

Checkboxes are universal, meaning that unchecking them in the library but checking them in a playlist can't happen. A song's box will all be checked or unchecked at a given time. However, this does let you make the act of checking/unchecking simple.

If you have a Christmas playlist, or some sort of grouping in iTunes that has all the music you don't care about them, browse to that playlist, select all the tracks (cmda, right-click -> select all, however you wish to go about it), and then right click one of the tracks and click 'Uncheck Selection'.

Massive amounts of tracks instantly unchecked and will not be considered for Genius, iTunes DJ, syncing, anything.

i just had the same problem. what i did was i downloaded other songs of the same artist and i deleted the whole music section of the artist. (i hope that makes sense) i have an ipad and it happened to some of my taylor swift songs so i redownloaded all my other taylor swift songs and i went to the artist section in the music library on my ipad and i deleted taylor swift and the songs with the grey circle disappeared. i hope this helped!