MacOs Catalina add music manually on iPhone 11

Hopeless! I used sync but only the playlists that I choose. Manually doing it is a total disaster. One may be able to add music manually but you have to delete it from your library on your device to remove it. It seems to me that if you have to use the music app and playlists, even to add or remove a single song you have to do it from a playlist and then Sync again.

Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave with what is happening to Apple. In thinking themselves smart I feel that they have disenfranchised at least half of the Apple device users on this planet. The music app is a lemon. Surely they know enough to realise that "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

'Tis very clumsy. BTW, I have an iPhone 7, it's the App that's crook. It was so easy to open iTunes to dump a file file into an app but now you have to drag and drop to the app in devices in Finder, you can't copy and paste; no paste on 'right click' and my touchpad isn't very good at that, plus you don't know if you were successful as it takes a while to show.

The downloading symbol and estimated time left has disappeared so you click on something and I swear black and blue that nothing is happening until 20 minutes later something happens.

in their eagerness to get the iPhone 11 out the software was not ready methinks.

There are a few bits of software that won't work in Catalina so I followed advice and installed Mojave as a virtual machine but I cannot connect my phone to iTunes or access my music in the virtual machine. They really are locking us out to be little Apple slaves. Talk about a bad move. I understand their motive to improve the security of the OS but not the practicality failure. There appears to be no reason to divy up iTunes.

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.

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!

Agreed! I wish I have never "downgraded" to Catalina!

This is making me wish I was not with Apple anymore. I do not want to have things in the cloud and do not want Apple Music. All I want, like before Catalina, is to easily manually manage my music and copy to my iPhone.

If this is not to be fixed I will certainly be looking at alternatives....

I don't think that Catalina is a bad upgrade personally, but to destroy the way iTunes works is an extremely bad move and it is disenfranchising millions of users. I hope Apple is listening because it is impossible to get in touch directly with them. They believe it was a good move but by thinking themselves smart they've done themselves in. This could well be the straw that broke the camels' back (the littlest change to the system that destroyed their followers belief in them).

I'm in business so I find the system a great relief compared to Windows and made the switch in 2010 but it seems to me that Apple is going the same way as Windows. Changing things for the worse so that the company's software developers have a job in the future fixing their mistakes AND getting paid for it? Maybe it's time for a mass move to Linux?

I suggest EVERYONE download the Apple Support app from the App Store and flood their customer service reps with complaints about not being able to manually manage their own music on their iPhones. All these sessions are recorded. All the subject data is collected. This may get Apples attention.

This is beyond frustrating. I wish there was a page (if there is, point me to it please) with bug issues with each release. Had I known about this bug, i would NOT have updated to Catalina last night.

I rely heavily on creating/modifying playlists on my iMac, and with iTunes (music) matching, my playlists then appear on all my devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch)

it's much easier to click and drag as we were able to do in iTunes.

No Bueno Apple. Fix this !!!

My workaround is to create the playlist on my iPhone and with iTunes (music) matching, it appears on all my devices, including my iMac. However, I can't add tracks to the newly created playlist from anywhere but my iPhone.

UGH

Further to my earlier post, the problem is getting stranger by the day, ripped 2 new CD's on Friday both refused to copy to my iPhone, however 2 days later they copy without any issues without the need to create a playlist - however the CD l ripped today will not transfer, which leads to the question - does a restart help?

I have taken the advice from johnfromcavendish and submitted the problem using the Apple Support app,

hope somebody is listening!!!!!

The answer to my earlier question is yes - after doing a Mac restart, the stubborn tracks now copy from Mac Music to my iPhone,

not ideal solution but it's a better workaround than making playlists!!!!

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".

I'm super frustrated. I signed up for the one month free of the new Apple Music to see if that would open up the ability to manually manage my playlists on my iPhone from my Mac.

What a mistake! This update is unbelievably bad and incredibly non-user-friendly. They broke something that wasn't broken before and didn't need any "fixing."

My music is completely messed up. It tells me to open the cloud sync to then sync everything. It then takes forever, with some pauses for error messages. It also created duplicates of tracks that I had to go in and delete the dupes. Ugh.

I thought I finally had it working. I selected to manually manage the music so I could choose the playlists to sync with the iPhone. It then seemed to work. But on my iPhone much of the music wasn't updated. The tracks have that cloud icon with the exclamation point telling me "This song is not synced across your devices. To play it here, go to iTunes and turn on cloud syncing."

I should mention that I had it turned on, then the "Music" app told me to turn it off. Also, there is no more "iTunes" on my devices thanks to the update, so why my iPhone is telling me to go to iTunes is confusing. But, I figured it out. So I thought. I turned on the cloud syncing on the phone. That didn't work.

Then I got a notice about another Catalina update. I installed the update hoping maybe that would make a difference. Nope. It cleared out my settings and I had to go through the whole laborious process again.

To top it off, after I thought the playlists were on my iPhone correctly, I was wrong. On the phone, I had to select each playlist and tap the download button. In other words, some of the songs synced, others did not. Some I can't get to sync to matter what I do.

This is the worst experience I've ever had with any Apple app or program or what have you. I couldn't believe that after installing the latest update I had to go through the lengthy process all over again and it's still not syncing everything in the playlists.

I don't know what to do at this point. It tells me to enable the cloud syncing then tells me not to. It resets everything. It's a mess.

Is anyone else have any of these issues?

Been there, done that!

on your device > SETTINGS > MUSIC > SHOW ALL PURCHASES > turn on

Mongrel program; the Music app should be taken out and be put down like one does to a lame animal. Apple gives us this community forum but I bet they don't even read it. I suspect that it's here so they don't have to deal with their issues.

Now, if anyone can tell me how to remove song easily that would be great. All I see is manage storage in finder. But that is terrible. Hardly any info and no bit rate. No album info. Hardly anything. Have to scroll to song name.