MacOs Catalina add music manually on iPhone 11

I've tried everything. I tried the suggestions here. I reset the location service on my phone as suggested here and now my MacBook won't recognize the phone, let alone "Apple Music."

It shouldn't be this hard to create and manage playlists. This business of turning the sync on or off on various devices is crazy. I'm done with Apple Music for good. I can't believe it's so bad. I still don't know why they even changed it except to force people to subscribe to their cloud/music service. Screw that.

I'm using Google Play Music right now which isn't too bad and will try some other alternatives. Apple needs to get its **** together. Plain and simple.

I'm a full time professional musician and for various reasons I do not need to go into here all the streaming music services SUCK for people like me.

I was actually excited about the new "Music app" which is even very hard to search for as it wants to always search for the streaming music part (not a coincidence I'm sure!) cause iTunes was such a bloated mess and moved SO slow on my machine... but the Music app is SO MUCH worse... the "search" function that we all had to SCREAM about is still just TERRIBLE... I submitted to apple support like 5 times to get the column browser back and so many others did its back.. but the search function is JUST AWFUL!!!!

But the fact that it is nearly impossible for me to just get a freaking PLAYLIST on my phone is so ridiculous.. and sort of a microcosm of Apple IMO opinion these days...

The iPod brought the company back.. then the iPhone (because most people just wanted to put their music on the same device they always could carry) made it what it is today.. but THE MOST BASIC THING the iPhone should do is just freaking TERRIBLE.

SO sad... i was such a preacher for apple products for so long and now I tell people how many times I curse at the ecosystem (of which i'm fully immersed in now) each day...

UGGG.. but seriously.... moving music to the phone is this hard!?!?! The music app and Catalina in general is terrible... I always upgrade the OS the first day.. i'm always excited.. this is the first one where I wish I never had... Catalina is THE WORST.

I just wish Apple would give us back iTunes with a new software update. I know this company revolves around a lot of money. If they want Apple fans to stick around, please for the love of god put back iTunes since this Music app just is not working out for anyone. Thank you and have a great day.

I noticed even when you make albums organized in the music app, the albums split apart separately when you go out of the app. The iTunes app was way better and it looks like I might be going back to Windows 10 since it has it. It makes me turned off about listening to my music collection with the new music app. I just wish Apple would listen to what smart people have to say about this situation.

I gave up on Apple Music, and will not trust Apple TV or any other entertainment options Apple offers, because there is no reason to think they have any quality. I can't see how anyone would use Apple Music for anything, instead of YouTube Premium or Amazon Prime Music. It is like something you'd expect from Windows 1995.

I'm also having this issue. I'm running Catalina version 10.15.4 and the Music App won't let me drag and drop certain songs to my iPhone XS Max which is up to date. The "Add to Device" option only appears for certain songs

Could you explain how to do this please?

That doesn't help. Music app just lists the songs. Any playlists are not manageable.

This my issue as well. I have a new iPhone 8 Plus with a Macbook Pro 15 running Catalina.

FYI Apple. If you don't fix this, and you try to force me to use your new streaming music service rather than allowing me to manage my own music, I'm done with the iPhone forever.

Well that’s a joke if so. Apple needs to get on the ball and fix this immediately. Taking away capabilities is not what a new update should be about. That’s called regression.

where u create the playlist? on music app or where? i tried music app playlist and other place like desktop dragging to device with no results......

thanks for your video, but doesn't work for me...

Thanks. This worked, but is clumsy. I hope Apple lets us go back to dragging and dropping a song or an album onto the iPhone.