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Q: SOLUTION: Some Music Won't Play After Upgrading Your iPhone To iOS7

After upgrading to iOS 7, some of you, including me, started having an issue where some of your songs refuse to play on your iPhones and iPods. There was also a red square inside of a red circle next to the song which I guess, was adding to the problem of the songs not playing. I had no idea what the issue was, so I searched and searched but came out with no solution to this annoying problem. Until last night. I was just messing around in the settings app and discovered that it was neither iTunes 11 nor iOS 7 that was the cause of this problem. It's all a matter of how the settings in your iPhone or iPod are set up. Follow these instructions to get your songs working again!

 

Step 1: Go to the "Settings" app on your Springboard (iPhone or iPod)

 

Step 2: Scroll down to the "iTunes & App Store" category.

 

Step 3: Where it says "Automatic Downloads", turn off the "Music" slider.

 

Step 4: Sync and enjoy playing ALL of your music!

 

It took me a while to figure this out, but I'm glad that I can help you guys. Have a great day!

 

 

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2, Works on every iPhone and iPod!

Posted on Oct 1, 2013 8:11 AM

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  • by soozeq17,

    soozeq17 soozeq17 Nov 16, 2014 5:30 PM in response to DJPens
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    Nov 16, 2014 5:30 PM in response to DJPens

    I have read through the various fixes for this issue...none of them worked for me.  It keeps changing which songs will show on my phone with the red circle....driving me crazy!

  • by jameshadley805,

    jameshadley805 jameshadley805 Dec 25, 2014 1:17 PM in response to DJPens
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    Dec 25, 2014 1:17 PM in response to DJPens

    Went to settings and found out Automatic downloads was already turned off. What scared into not restoring was the fact that some of my music is on our IMAC and some of it is on my laptop. Plus I have two accounts so some of the purchased songs were going to be totally lost. Or so they said.

    Is there a toll free 24 hour phone line set up. I love my IPOD but really this makes me a bit angry that I have all this music (4,000 + songs) and I cannot play any of the stuff that I have downloaded both from CD's that I own and from ITUNES. This has got to be fixed.

  • by EJD72,

    EJD72 EJD72 Apr 13, 2015 10:28 AM in response to Mitch_Rocker
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    Apr 13, 2015 10:28 AM in response to Mitch_Rocker

    This also worked for me. The only steps I would recommend would come in between 5 & 6. When it didn't work for me after step 5, I powered my device down as well as closing and then restarting iTunes. It was almost like on one device or the other (iOS or Mac) there were some vestiges of bad commands. Once I did that, I watched very happily as the songs were re-added. This worked for my iPhone 5 (running iOS 8.3) and iPad (retina) (running iOS 8.2).

  • by William Williams,

    William Williams William Williams Apr 30, 2015 5:29 PM in response to DJPens
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    Apr 30, 2015 5:29 PM in response to DJPens

    This worked like a champ for me. Thanks!! iPhone 4S IOS 8.3, Mac OS 10.9.5, iTunes 12.2.1.27.

     

     

  • by Jlo2015,

    Jlo2015 Jlo2015 Jul 10, 2015 5:55 AM in response to DJPens
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    Jul 10, 2015 5:55 AM in response to DJPens

    Hey DJpens,

     

    Thanks alot, I've been having this problem for a while now,I didn't know what do to anymore.

    I just stuble across your answer.

    This really worked for on Iphone4.

     

    Yeah Now I am enjoying all my music.

     

  • by tmas_09,

    tmas_09 tmas_09 Jul 18, 2015 2:11 PM in response to DJPens
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    Jul 18, 2015 2:11 PM in response to DJPens

    All,

     

    Try turning on the "Use Cellular Data" switch.

     

    Seems to allow me to access all of my music after that.

  • by Chegue ,

    Chegue Chegue Nov 27, 2015 11:54 AM in response to DJPens
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    Nov 27, 2015 11:54 AM in response to DJPens

       frustrating paying for a service and all this problems with the music library , songs with no audio,  skipping songs too when they are gonna fix this or say something about this, not happy about this situation only happens with Apple Music

  • by tfish3,

    tfish3 tfish3 Dec 3, 2015 11:07 PM in response to DJPens
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    Dec 3, 2015 11:07 PM in response to DJPens

    Thank you so much.. I brought my Ipod touch a week ago and was getting frustrated as it would not play all my music... I followed your instractions to the T and it worked... so THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN.

     

    kindest regards    

    tfish3

  • by Mac_26682,

    Mac_26682 Mac_26682 May 24, 2016 6:47 AM in response to DJPens
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    May 24, 2016 6:47 AM in response to DJPens

    I just tried this right now and I think it worked, the only bad thing is I have to go through the whole liberal to make sure

  • by Lissa052,

    Lissa052 Lissa052 Jul 1, 2016 5:27 AM in response to DJPens
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    Jul 1, 2016 5:27 AM in response to DJPens

    I recently had this problem with the newest update (12.4.1.6) and after clicking around for a few minutes I realised that my songs weren't syncing because Itunes could not locate their file location. The process of finding the file locations was very tedious but all I had to do was right click on the songs/albums, select locate and then find the file they were in and press open. After all that they synced through perfectly. Hopefully this works for you.

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