Q: I followed the instructions for setting up Home Sharing between my Mac and iPhone 6 but I don't get any music listing on my iPhone
I followed the instructions for setting up Home Sharing between my Mac and iPhone 6 but I don't get any music listing on my iPhone
I confirmed:
1) Devices are on the same network
2) I am logged into my AppleID with the same account
3) My OS's are up to date (Mac 10.11.2) (iPhone 9.2)
3) I closed iTunes and re-opened the App
4) I powered off my iPhone and restarted it (and confirmed all the above)
On my iPhone, I do see,under my music Library, the different "Genre's" listed (e.g. Classical, Recently Added, 90's Music, etc) but they are all empty.
Im hoping to see the music I have in iTunes on my Mac and play these songs from my iPhone.
Im thinking, the music that would be shared from my computer to my phone would have to be on the Cloud?
(I have not set any defaults to add my music to the Cloud as of yet).
Message was edited by: abbeyinor
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), null
Posted on Jan 16, 2016 8:15 AM
Hey Gail,
I got it working!
I figured reboot my phone and restart iTunes on my Mac. Then in My Music on my phone I toggled into Playlist then back to Library and did the pull down Menu to select 'Albums' and now saw 'Home Sharing' at the bottom of the list. I selected that and all my albums are showing! I did set up Home Sharing on my phone via Setting/Music but I just now seemed to get the option in the Music app now. Odd. I don't recall seeing any Apple instructions to have to look for the item to check.
Its also good that my available storage in iCloud did not change (still under 5GB!). This is my first iPhone and Im not a fan of iCloud and Im not sure I need it with the way I have my system(s) configured.
Abbey
Posted on Jan 16, 2016 8:34 AM
