MacOs Catalina add music manually on iPhone 11

I hope they fix it as well. I prefer to manage the playlists on my iPhone via the app on my laptop. It's much easier. Now, I can't even see what playlists are on my iPhone via the laptop app. Moving things around on the actual iPhone is clunky and time consuming. :(

I completely agree with Scott here. Also, if you go through the finder to manage your library on the phone, its also eliminated the ability to sort through your phone library by different categories like you could on iTunes. I have a large GB iPhone with a lot of music not purchased through iTunes or available on streaming. Catalina makes utilizing your libraries like this on your iPhone an almost impossible experience

'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.

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.

I have the same problem. My feeling is that I am being "pushed" in the direction of a subscription to the Apple Music service. And a bit violently maybe... At the moment the only solution I have found is to handle my music through a windows machine using iTunes. I tried the solution of "manually managing my music" in finder, and it completely wiped away ALL my music from my iPhone 11. (painstakingly sorted and organised over many hours of work...) The whole thing doesn't make much sense. It seems that I don't get the option to have different music in my phone than my computer!!

are you sure you're running in the new MacOS Catalina?cause doesn't worked for me. I had to subscribe to apple music just to sync my songs through the iCloud.

You can't even view the songs on your iPhone by "Date added" anymore. By splitting iTunes into separate components, they ruined a little bit of each application!

I have this problem too, I manually manage my Music library on my iMac 2015. After updating to Catalina I could no longer manually move music drag between the Music app and my plugged in iPhone. The iPhone icon to the left on the Music app didn't light up when I dragged music onto it.

I finally solved it.

Place the music you want to move into a new playlist on your Mac, then drag the playlist to the left hand iPhone devices entry in the Music app and its then allowed and loads OK. .

This must be a workaround to a Catalina bug, I can't believe it's intended as the only way to manually manage your music between mac and iPhone.

I hope the Apple developers will fix this problem with the Catalina update Music app. We need to be able to see our playlists and songs on our iPhones from the application so that we can manage our iPhones more efficiently. This workaround seems like how Windows Media Center use to transfer Mp3 files to older MP3 players.

I have the same issue. I tried everything the folks below suggested with no luck. Even did the last Catalina update, still can't manage music manually. Can't add any music to my iPhone from my iMac. So no new Mobil music for me until this issue is fixed. iTunes worked so well for so long. Why change something just to change it? Especially if you can't make it work. Very frustrating Apple. Please figure this one out ASAP.

That's not the issue I'm having. Using the finder and seeing the iphone under "devices" in the music app is fine.

The issue I have is that's all I can see in the music app on my laptop. Just the iphone. It doesn't have a drop down that shows the playlists on the iphone so that I can edit them. I still see the playlists that are on my laptop but not the playlists on my iphone.

Editing the playlists on the iphone itself is laborious. Using the app (when it was iTunes) on the laptop is so much easier. I'm hoping they find a way to bring that option back. It's sorely missed.

For me it worked for only 1/2 devices.

iPhone 7 Plus worked fine.

iPad 2nd 12.9 doesn't work at all!!!

It is so frustrating, that I even tried deleting my music and importing it back and of course it wasn't syncing so it didn't delete any of the songs. But deleting them from the Settings App did delete everything, and since I can't sync the tablet... I have no music in my iPad!!!! (Palm in the face)

Thanks Apple (Sarcasm alert!)

I've tried this exact thing more than once. It appears to work when you click and drag but nothing transfers to the phone. I wonder what's different. I have the latest Catalina update and the latest iPhone update.

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.