Ventura, Apple Music, and files re-copyuing to my iPhone
Hi. I just migrated from Mojave to Ventura. I’m getting acclimated to Apple Music. I’ve successfully brought my old iTunes library in (thanks to turintest2!). But I’m being stumped by the syncing to my iPhone (14, running iOS 16.6).
I go to the desktop; select my iPhone; check “Manually manage music, etc”
Then in the Music tab, I click Playlists; check off a few playlists I want to copy over; click “Sync music onto iPhone”; and “Selected artists, albums, etc”
Then in the Audiobooks tab, I do the same. When I click “Sync audiobooks…” I get the “Are you sure you want to remove…” prompt. I go for it.
I click Sync in the lower right and the relevant mp3s and audiobooks copy over.
Fine.
I unplug my phone and check: everything I wanted copied over is there.
I plug it back in. On the General tab, “Manually manage music, etc” is un-checked. Is this what is supposed to happen? My computer won’t remember the setting I selected the last time I had it plugged in?
I select the Music tab. The boxes I had checked before are still checked. So, it can remember what I checked there, so that’s right, right? I check a few more playlists to copy over. I do the same on the Audiobooks tab.
I go back to the General tab and “Manually manage music…” is un-checked. I check it again.
I click Apply. On Step 4, it copies over ALL of my selected mp3s and audiobooks again.
This happens every time I try it. As long as its plugged in, I can add to it, but once I unplug it and plug it in again, this “re-copying every file” routine happens.
What am I doing wrong? I went from Mojave to Monterey and had this issue. So I upgraded to Ventura, and it’s behaving the same way.
Thanks!
iPhone 14
