Q: Why won't my songs transfer from itunes to my iphone?

Okay, so I had this problem too, and I spent a while trying to fix it and here's where I came up with. *Side note: there are, like, three different music tabs that mean all different things. There is Library Music (in the library column), iPhone Music (right below the settings tab when you click on your device), and Music on your device (under the on your device tab).

1) Connect your device to your computer and start iTunes.

2) Make sure that you have all the music that you want to add/take off of your device checkmarked. I personally find this easier if you change the view to be organized by songs instead of albums or artists.

3) Then click on the icon that looks like your iPhone/iPod and it will take you to the summary of your device.

4) Go to the iPhone music and make sure the 'Sync Music' checkbox is clicked.

5) Click on the circle button that says 'Entire music Library'.

6) Sync your iPhone.

I hope this works for anyone having the same stupid problem.

it's most likely because you've moved your music on your computer. I couldn't figure it out either for the longest time, but I had moved the downloaded music files from my desktop to a folder and the computer couldn't find the original files on the computer to transfer to my phone. So i had to go back to the moved files, open them in iTunes, then re-build my playlists, and then they all could transfer to my phone.

I have had this problem too! But I just figured it out:

settings

music

and change "show all music" to on

then go to your music and download the iCloud stuff

then turn it back off.

funnyhuh has the answer. thanks

Make sure that when the device options pop up, or you select them that you check the boxes that say "Sync only check songs and videos" and "Manually manage music videos." After that try to sync it and its should work.

I found another way to finally make this work:

1. Connect your iPhone
2. Click the iPhone icon
3. Go to "Music" in the left column under "On My Device" (NOT "Music" under "Settings"!!!)
   1. Here most of your songs will probably be greyed out and thus not be playable on the iPhone
4. Mark all music that you want to transfer to your iPhone
5. Click the "Add to..." button on the top right side of the iTunes window
6. This changes to a "Done" botton
7. iTunes should automatically begin transferring the songs

Hope this helps

I was having the same issues. I selected all of the music in my iTunes and dragged it to my iPhone in iTunes. I also had to drag the playlists as well. You have to make sure you drag each playlist directly over the device section on the left. Once this was done, everything transferred to my phone. Hope this helps you guys.

I figured it out!!!

I was having the same problem.  I even backed up my phone and updated it to the latest update and it still wouldn't work.  Then I noticed when i clicked on the device in itunes the " manually manage music and vidoes" box was not checked.  I clicked on it and I could move my music from itunes to my iphone

I had the same issue with my iPhone 4s with the latest update of iOS 8. It started to happen when I bought songs from iTunes using the WiFi at work. The connection dropped unexpectedly and I was never able to download the song on my iPhone. It was in my iTunes library on my home Mac but, whichever method I tried, I still couldn't add it to my iPhone. After trying everything Apple support recommended to do, and most solutions posted here, I deleted my playlist, Restored the iPhone (after backing up) and it solved the problem. I recreated a new playlist and was able to add all the songs that appeared greyed out with the little dashed circle next to it, in the list.

Hope it works for you too, if everything else fails. Apple leaves me angry and frustrated, sometimes, but I'm still crazy after all these years.

Cheers.

Hi guys,

This was my problem. I have mp3 stored on NAS and connected to MAC mini with OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 via router and LAN cables. When I searched for a song on NAS vie Finder and want to drag it directly to iphone 6 running iOS 8.2 which was displayed via iTunes 12.1.0.50 it displayed the file as copied, or with the grey circle near the file. I was able to see the file on iTunes, but not on the phone.

What I did to fix it was that first I dragged the file from Finder to iTunes library and then from iTunes library to phone. All my songs are there and playable.

Hope this helps someone

Your way works, but there is an easier way to delete your music. On your iphone go to settings>General>Usage>Music then click on edit and tap on the minus sign and you should be able to delete all your music in one tap.

Going into the Music app on the phone, selecting "More" then "Shared" to select my Library worked. Who knew the solution would be so simple. Thanks funniehuh! No thank to Apple, for making use figure it out on our own!

Hi,

I had this exact same problem for such a long time and it really bothered me. I never thought I would be able to fix it and I couldn't believe my eyes when I did literally. I was madly searching all through iTunes to figure out a way to fix it and this what I did:

Click >> your iPhone tab (e.g. Phoebe's iPhone) >> Music

It should come up with Sync Music and then a few boxes. Then you see the problem, for me all the boxes were unticked and faded out. So I ticked the Entire Music Library box, pressed Sync once again and done. The songs had FINALLY transferred onto my phone.

I really hope this helped if someone else hasn't already figured it out

Awesome that actually worked!

I've had this problem several times. Now I figured out something that helped me. When right-clicking on the song I want transferred, there appears a drop-down-menu. You can there "add to playlist" - and a new drop-down-menu appears. There you can select (your iphone-name). Actually - first I could select "add to" and my iphone appeared. Suddenly only "add to playlist" appeared.

Good luck. I wish I didn't buy iphone again - itunes and music-sync is terrible and every apple-employee should be ashamed for making syncing music such a hassle.