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Wondering, if, there is a way to get all my itunes I have on my desktop to my Iphone?

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 6:59 AM

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Posted on Mar 20, 2020 8:40 AM

Yes.


  1. Do you have iTunes (the programme) installed on your computer?
  2. Have you added the music on your desktop into iTunes?
  3. As a separate question, do you have music on the phone already? If so, how did it get there?


The reason for question number three is that if you have music on the phone currently, that you purchased from the iTunes Store, you need to sign into your iTunes account in iTunes on your computer and make sure that you have downloaded the purchases into your iTunes Library. They will then be available for iTunes to Sync them with your phone without issues. Otherwise, iTunes may remove the songs from the phone because it thinks you are not the purchaser of that music.


If you have music on the phone that came from other sources, you need to add that to your iTunes Library before the next step.


  • Once you've sorted all the points above, connect the phone to your computer, let iTunes find it and set Sync options to add the music on your computer to the phone.


You may need some extra instructions to complete everything. Please ask.

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Mar 20, 2020 8:40 AM in response to p7j

Yes.


  1. Do you have iTunes (the programme) installed on your computer?
  2. Have you added the music on your desktop into iTunes?
  3. As a separate question, do you have music on the phone already? If so, how did it get there?


The reason for question number three is that if you have music on the phone currently, that you purchased from the iTunes Store, you need to sign into your iTunes account in iTunes on your computer and make sure that you have downloaded the purchases into your iTunes Library. They will then be available for iTunes to Sync them with your phone without issues. Otherwise, iTunes may remove the songs from the phone because it thinks you are not the purchaser of that music.


If you have music on the phone that came from other sources, you need to add that to your iTunes Library before the next step.


  • Once you've sorted all the points above, connect the phone to your computer, let iTunes find it and set Sync options to add the music on your computer to the phone.


You may need some extra instructions to complete everything. Please ask.

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