How to unfavorite a song in Apple Music on Mac

Favouriting is one click. Undoing it is the same click, but a few cases look like the favourite refuses to go away. Here is how it works

The normal way

Point at the song and click the favourite button again: it switches between favourite and not favourite. Apple's guide describes it as a toggle and has no separate unfavorite steps. The song leaves the Favourite Songs playlist, which sits below Playlists in the sidebar

When it seems to stay

• The star updates late. Music can take 5 to 11 seconds to redraw its own star after the flag changes, whoever changed it. Wait a moment before you click again, or you will favourite it again. See why the star in Music updates late
• The song came from radio or the catalogue. You favourited a song you never added to the library, so Music made a copy of it in Favourite Songs. That copy is the record you see. Removing the favourite has to happen on the copy (favourite or add to library)

Many at once

We did not find an official way to remove all favourites in one step. Apple's guide describes favouriting and unfavoriting one item at a time, and it does not mention multiple selection. If you need to clear many, a script can loop over the songs in Favourite Songs and set favorited to false for each. See the AppleScript article for how the flag works. Try it on a few songs first

From the menu bar

Likeit toggles the same flag from the menu bar. When the star is filled the song is a favourite, one right click removes it, and for radio songs it clears the copy in Favourite Songs for you