How to transfer music from my old iPhone to my new one?

An iPhone can never serve as a music repository.

Hopefully your music is also somewhere else.

If you purchased your music from the iTunes Store, it can be re-downloaded from there to your new iPhone.

Redownload music - Apple Support

disquietous wrote:

This is absolutely unsatisfactory. The files are there. There should be access to them. Even if they are converted into some proprietary format, there should be a supported migration process for retrieval.

Unsatisfactory or not, that’s the way iTunes works. You should have all the music on your computer, because that’s how it got to your old phone in the first place. Just sync it from your computer to your new phone→Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod using your computer - Apple Support

I have a new Phone 12. My old iPhone 6 has over 1000 tunes on it that have not transferred to the new phone. Many are Dutch Gramafone recordings from overseas. How can I transfer my music over to the new phone?

I have an old iPod that has a lot of music (cd's). I no longer have the computer I used to put music on iPod. I would like to transfer the music over to my iPhone 12. Any suggestions on how I can do this?

This is absolutely unsatisfactory. The files are there. There should be access to them. Even if they are converted into some proprietary format, there should be a supported migration process for retrieval.

If it is an iPod Classic you have access to the disk drive on it. You can connect it to your computer and copy the music to your computer over a USB cable by viewing the disk from your computer.

Otherwise you will have to rip it from the CDs to your newer computer.

The iphone is backed up, but the files are definitely long gone from when and where they were imported. There's no good excuse for Apple not to supply an Apple-supported process for accessing any of my own data on my device. There are 3rd-party apps that do this, but I shouldn't have to resort to a 3rd-party app for something this elementary. This is poor customer serivce.

Good excuse or not, it is a FACT that Apple does not provide a way to copy music from an iPhone to another iPhone. It is your opinion that there is no good excuse, but facts trump opinions all the time.

If the music was not purchased from the iTunes store you must sync it from the iTunes library on your computer→Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod using your computer - Apple Support

My response above applies to you as well.

Did you click on the link in my previous post and follows the instructions in it?