iPad playlist sync

Exact same thing happening to me. And to another person - look at the "vanishing playlist" thread. I guess now we wait...?

Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/expert/

Feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Okay so I just spent about half an hour on the phone with an expert (thanks for the contact suggestions) and we developed a workaround that will not only stop the problem, but will make your old playlists that ate themselves magically reappear! Weird, right? He thought so too, so he had me try a bunch of stuff and he's sending a report to the engineers so they can figure out why it was happening in the first place. But for now here's what you do:

Connect your iPad to your computer.
Set iPad to "Sync music" (instead of manually managing).
Select just a few artists to have sync so that it doesn't take a lot of time, because you'll be putting it back on manually manage shortly, so it doesn't matter what music you choose.
Click "Apply."
All the playlists that we thought were forever gone will both show up on the iPad and sync back to your computer.
Now you can choose "manually manage" again and the problem should be solved - sort of. When you create a playlist on your iPad now under manually manage, the playlist won't eat itself like it used to, but it won't sync back to the computer either. He told me that that part of it sort of makes sense because nothing syncs under manually manage, but the deleting itself thing definitely didn't, and neither did the way the deleted ones reappeared again. So he's sending the report to the engineers and will let me know back soon.

Great feedback. Thanks.

No problem. 🙂

I'm a bit confused by this, i don't have manually manage music and videos checked, as i let all my music sync to my ipad, but my playlists are still disappearing:( what should i do?

Yup, me too - auto sync everything. My playlists don't disappear per se. I can get playlists that I created new on the ipad to transfer back to itunes; but when I edit playlists on ipad, they won't transfer. What's up?

+1 me too

any idea ??

it happens to me not only with iPhone4 (iOS 4.2.1) but also with my iPad -- maybe a problem / bug with iTunes 10.1.1 ????? (it worked perfectly before)

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Same problem here - did work before I updated to iOS4.2 on my iPad. Must be a bug - will report http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html .