Garageband File Compatibility between iPhone and mac

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Garageband File Compatibility between iPhone and mac

I am just trying to record tracks on the garageband app on my phone (real vocal or guitar tracks, not the screen instruments on the iPhone) and then transfer the track as a garageband project file to my mac so I can combine and edit tracks in garageband on my mac. I can create and successfully transfer the files using airdrop, but when I try to open them in garageband on the mac it doesn't work. When I try to open the transferred .band file using garageband on my mac, it immediately opens a save file window and the garageband project screen on the mac screen is empty except that it shows a track has been selected (guitar or vocal) but there is no data. I have gb version 2.3.8 on my iPhone and Catalina 10.15.3 on my mac.

iPhone 8, iOS 13

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 1:50 PM

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Answer 1

sterling r

Community Specialist

Apr 9, 2020 6:13 PM in response to daddioguydadbub

Good afternoon daddioguydadbub,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

I understand you are trying to get the vocal and guitar tracks that you recorded on your iPhone to your Mac to work with them in GarageBand. If the project isn't transferring the way you want, try exporting the individual tracks from the iPhone and then importing them into your main project in GarageBand for Mac.

Share songs with GarageBand for iPhone - GarageBand User Guide for iPhone

Take care.

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Answer 2

chris_g1

Community Specialist

Apr 13, 2020 12:40 PM in response to daddioguydadbub

Hi daddioguydadbub,

I think contacting Apple Support may be the best way to troubleshoot this issue further.

Contact Apple Support

Take care.

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Answer 3

Apr 10, 2020 6:22 AM in response to daddioguydadbub

I am experiencing the reverse. And this has happened in the past which required an update on GarageBand. I have on numerous occasions exported from my Mac a "Project to iOS" file and shared it with my collaborators who are using iPads and iPhones - never an issue other than I don't understand why it has to combine all of the tracks into one track for my friends with iOS devices. Nevertheless, today I cannot produce a file that has any content for them to work with. It produces a file but it is empty. This has been an issue for a few weeks now and I suspect it won't be resolved until Apple issues a GarageBand update that addresses this issue.

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Answer 4

Apr 12, 2020 10:39 AM in response to sterling r

So the link you provided only discusses transferring "songs", or audio files, not the garageband project files. I interpret what you are saying is that I should share each track separately as an audio file and then move those audio files into garageband on the Mac because you can't transfer a project file from iPhone to Mac; is that correct? I would prefer to transfer the project file because it would be cleaner sounding, but please confirm if I can't do that. Thanks.

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Garageband File Compatibility between iPhone and mac

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