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Music app "Syncing Your Library"

Today I connected my iPhone SE to iTunes, something I always dread. I wanted to sync my music having added several more songs to my iTunes library. After been told there was a iOS 13.4 update for my phone, I chose to download. This didn't work and I was forced to do a restore. I did that, and then synced 5800 songs from iTunes, which worked. All the songs were on my local SSD.

Now, the music library works, but at the top there's a bar saying "Syncing Your Library".

It's not syncing it to iTunes, because the iPhone's not connected, so what is it trying to sync to, and how can I stop it? The progress bar doesn't move.

Posted on Mar 27, 2020 11:03 PM

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SravanKrA

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Posted on Mar 27, 2020 11:20 PM

If you have sync library turned On then you cannot sync music using iTunes from your PC. Turn off Sync Library.

Turn on / off Sync Library

With the latest version of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, Sync Library is turned on by default. If you turned off Sync Library, you can turn it back on. Just follow the steps below for your device.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Go to Settings > Music.
Turn off Sync Library.

If you don't subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, you won’t see an option to turn on Sync Library.

If Sync Library is updating or turned off, you'll see a message at the top of the Library tab in the Apple Music app.

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anon827

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Jun 14, 2020 11:09 PM in response to annahilt14

THANK YOU!!

Ttoni

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Jul 3, 2020 11:58 PM in response to annahilt14

Thank you!!!

Hyvtt

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Jul 20, 2020 3:09 PM in response to keenen16

This worked for me thank you!!!

0xeneer

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Jul 25, 2020 9:39 AM in response to annahilt14

This is the solution. Worked for me 7/25/2020

Aug 12, 2020 1:47 PM in response to Iron1972

THANK YOU! This should be marked as the correct answer. (not sure why @chadmarra's question is marked as correct?) In any case, thanks again! :)

Aug 20, 2020 5:54 AM in response to annahilt14

yes this finally made it work!! thank you!!

fenechy

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Aug 21, 2020 2:31 AM in response to annahilt14

That worked for me too. Thanks!

Aug 21, 2020 5:20 PM in response to keenen16

This worked for me thank you!

Morgabit

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Sep 7, 2020 5:21 AM in response to annahilt14

Thank you so much ... that totally fixed my issue.

hlyule

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Sep 12, 2020 7:21 PM in response to annahilt14

This worked perfectly! Thank uou

keenen16

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Jun 14, 2020 4:51 AM in response to caitlinczernek

Settings/iCloud at the top/iTunes and app stores/make the music bubble green. Just worked for me and all my music came back

T_wang

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Jul 21, 2020 9:11 PM in response to Skcusime

I also had the same problem, I also have an iPhone SE gen 2. I deleted Apple Music and downloaded it again, that fixed the problem for me.

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