Music Playlist on iPhone not restored after performing a complete restore from a complete backup.

supernova1 wrote:

I made the mistake of running a Music sync between my MacBook and my iPhone hoping that it would update the MacBook playlists from the iPhone playlists. The opposite occurred. Before syncing, I ran a full backup to ICLOUD on the iPhone (just in case). So I did a full erase and restore from my latest backup to the iPhone expecting to restore my Music playlists from before the sync. One would expect that a full restore is exactly that - RESTORING everything. For whatever reason, this turned out NOT to be the case for my Music playlists (which is, to say the least, infuriating). Why?? If there is a solution, please share...

Only purchased music is part of the icloud backup not playlist What does iCloud back up? - Apple Support

You'll need to re-create the list.

supernova1 wrote:

Really, why is that? To save storage and backup time? I wish I knew that before I started. So what kind of backup is actually a full backup (to include playlists)? I really feel that should be made known explicitly as in with a warning message stating that not everything will be backed up with a link to the details. If it's not an incremental backup, most people I'm aware of will assume that it's really a FULL backup.

Click on the blue link I provided. People should be doing their own research about what they're enabling and doing.

When you synced to itunes epescially if it is a different one that you normally sync to, you would've gotten a warning about it replacing contents on your phone with the library on that mac.