MacOs Catalina add music manually on iPhone 11

Plug your iphone in

Open finder

Scroll down on the side bar on the left hand side of the finder window until you see "Locations"

Click on your iphone

You'll have to "trust" the computer when prompted to do so on your iphone.

Once that process is complete open up the music app on your mac and you'll see your iphone under "devices" on the left hand side.

You can now manually drag and drop music into your iphone like before.

It works for me via Finder.

Step 1: make sure "Manually manage music and videos" is checked

Step 2: click on the iPhone icon in Finder, click on the "Music" tab and drag & drop your music onto the window: https://imgur.com/a/JtLuqi7

macOS Catalina - Version 10.15

Connect your iPhone to the Mac.

In Finder select the iPhone in the sidebar

In the main finder window it should show your iPhone with tabs for General, Music, TV Shows etc. Select General.

Near the bottom of the window under Options check the box beside Manually manage music, movies and TV Shows and click apply.

Open the Music app. You should now be able to drag songs and albums to your iPhone

If you select individual songs you can right click and Send to Device but if you right click on an album there is no option to Send to Device, only to playlist. If you expand the album you can select all song and right click to Send to Device.

Well. I finally got this to work. No thanks to Apple, who never posted how to do this or gave me an answer when I called support. But this worked for me:

plug in phone

in finder, select iphone from sidebar, then select ‘music’ at top menu bar

if needed, select ‘sync’ for ‘selected artist, albums, ect’ / apply

on Music app, select song or songs you want to move to iphone

right click, choose ‘add to devise’/choose iphone

This is how I fixed it.

Connect iPhone to Mac with a USB cable.

Open Finder - the iPhone should now be visible under "Locations".

Click on the iPhone and the Mac and iPhone will go through a "trust" procedure. Once complete the details for the iPhone should appear in the right hand finder window. Review the options - I have "show when on wifi", "Auto sync when connected" and "Manually manage music etc" checked.

Open the music App and choose a song. Right click the song and hopefully you will see "add to device".

With 10.15.2 set to manually control music, click on your device in finder and select manual control. Open Apple Music and select Artist or Albums or what ever on the left, Highlight the songs that you want to copy across, drag them over to your device on the left and then click on your device and there they are.

The problem has been solved, I believe, but we've got to get our heads around it.

Hey I feel your pain. I was finally able to get it to work. I replied to the original post, but in case you can't find it, see below:

karawanz wrote:

In case anyone is still having issues, here's what worked for me. [iPhone version 13.3, macOS Catalina 10.15.2]

On your iPhone: Go to Settings -> Music -> Turn off "Sync Downloads"

On your Mac: Open Music app -> Preferences -> uncheck "Sync Library"

Now, simply drag and drop songs directly onto your device icon on the left (make sure device is highlighted as you hover over while dropping)

Hope that works for you too!

AHA! I was having this same problem but none of the solutions here worked for me (though I admit I skimmed). What ultimately fixed it for me was this:

1. Unplug your phone from your Mac.
2. On your iPhone go to: Settings > General > Reset > Reset Location & Privacy
3. Plug your phone back into your Mac. Click "Trust" When the "Trust this computer?" prompt appears.
4. On your Mac, "Trust" When the "Trust this iPhone?" prompt appears

I can now copy songs right from Catalina's Music app onto my iPhone. I hope this works for you!

macOS 10.15.1 & iPadOS 13.2 Fixed everything! FINALLY!!!

Thank you apple!

Now I can actually drag songs from my "Music" App (macOS) and drag on iPad (device) and it automatically syncs.

FYI I do have "manage music manually" ON.

Unfortunately, there is no way to manage my Playlist from macOS like iTunes used to let me do.

It just doesn't make any sense what so ever as to WHY in the world Apple would remove BASIC features from an App.

It's like removing Wipers from your car, because you'll be better of using Apple's Magic Wax that removes water from your windshield.

I know, Apple is trying to sell (push) their Music service down our throats, but come on you can just leave that one CODE in there that allows us to control our music library inside our devices.

The option of dragging from the Music App into the Finder with the phone selected as a location worked for me. Unbelievable!

Similar problem too, after updating to Catalina I could no longer manually manage my music on my iPhone

or so l thought, it is only newly ripped tracks that won't transfer, all previously ripped tracks/albums copy fine between the new Music app and my iPhone.

The only way to copy the new tracks is to make a playlist first and then copy across - it's a work around but not perfect

If it's not broke then don't fix it - Catalina has been the worst upgrade in years!

As everyone have said, this is beyond frustrating and ridiculous.

I was able to add the tracks to my iPhone by clicking the already mentioned "manually manage music..." option on Finder.

You go to this horrendous "Music" app, right click on the track you want and you will have the option "add to device". However, if you want to add the whole album, you can't do it. Why this happens? I have no idea: if I can add track by track, why can't I add the whole album at once? This is not even logical.

It took me years to migrate to Apple. But it seems it won't take that long to go back to what I had previously in the non-Apple world: full control.

In the Finder window, click on the iPhone in the sidebar. This will show the familiar Sync window that iTunes used to have. Same operations make it easier to veteran iTunes users.