My music does not appear in iPhone Music app even though it shows as synced to the device in Finder on Macbook
I manually manage the music that is on my iPhone by connecting via USB to my Macbook and using the Sync Selected Artists option via Finder.
I select several artists and click Sync. As the sync runs, I can see the artists appear on the Music app of the iPhone, but as the sync completes they disappear from the Music app.
When I open Apple Music on the Macbook and select the iPhone from on the sidebar, the artists that I selected to sync do show up. So it appears that the files do actually transfer to the iPhone because Music can see them there, but they are not visible on the iPhone itself.
The music files are available and I can play them on the Macbook.
Both the Macbook and iPhone are on the latest version of software as of the time of posting (iOS 16.6, Ventura 13.5).
I have been using this process to manage my library on these exact devices for a couple of years now.
I do not have an Apple Music subscription.
Anybody have any ideas?