Can't get playlist XML files from iPhone.

Hello ChrissyOne,

When moving music and playlists from your iPhone to your Mac, are you following these steps to do so: Connect your device to your Mac to sync Music content - Apple Support? If not, you may want to start there.

1. Connect your device to your Mac using a USB or USB-C cable.

2. Do one of the following:

• If it’s your first time connecting this device to your Mac: Open the Finder  on your Mac, click the device in the Finder sidebar, then click Trust; you may also need to tap Trust on the device.

• If it’s not your first time connecting this device to your Mac: In the Music app  on your Mac, click the device in the sidebar, then click Sync Settings in the top-right corner.

The device opens in the Finder  on your Mac.

Once the music is on the Mac, you can follow these steps to Save a copy of a playlist in Music on Mac - Apple Support.

We hope this information helps you out.

Cheers!

I can't think of a way to do this, but you could consider doing screen shots of the playlist contents on your phone and using the text recognition of screen shots to get the song names as text as a note. You could then use a text editor on your mac to turn the raw text into an XML or maybe CSV file.

Not a very good workaround, I know.

It's a longshot, but could you sign up for iTunes Match on your Mac and get all your songs into iCloud that way. Then on your phone, turn on iTunes in the Cloud? There's some chance it would do sync the playlists to the cloud that way, then you would have them on your Mac.