Synced Content iPhone Storage - iOS 17 Update

Thanks. so, you do not use a PC/Mac based computer to sync?

i manually copied the files into my iPad. Would iMazing be able to link music files to the music app?

i would love to get rid of extra devices and space on my PC, when I get one.

I have about 32Gig of CD ripped music.

iMazing is hosted on a Mac or PC as a replacement for the iTunes app. I use iMazing running on a PC with a wired connection to my tablet or phone and the music files are copied from the PC into the Music app on the Apple device. I believe WiFi would work but I prefer the wired connection for this. I keep the music for the PC on a separate hard drive for backup (2 copies actually for backup purposes). Not sure if I answered your question ...

I see. Thank you for that.

it is amazing to have an iPad pro, that has reasonable processor and storage, yet Apple

make you dependent on a PC. I do not think it is a technology issue, as much as Apple only sees its vision and not catering to some realities. Disappointing.

again, thank you for sharing. Few of us out there, who are forgotten about, because we do not subscribe to Apple music.

It would be great if the discussion about alternative music players were held in another place.

1. It’s not a solution.

2. The synced content is in my case the apps I have on my phone (iPhone 12 mini). It takes up 31.4 GB of space while my synced music is less than 2 GB.

Wow! Ok I have Apple Music and I noticed I have all this new stuff in my music collection I have never heard of before! No wonder that’s the reason syncing from my laptop to my iPhone made my iPhone freeze! Someone dropped the ball on this BIG TIME! Smh They need to fix this!!

I am sort of new to Apple world. Does Apple take on problems and follow through with resolutions?

Or is up to them to not address real problems and ignore them? Are we held hostage choosing this platform?

43Gig lost in synch is not acceptable.

Well I wish they would hurry up, this has been going for at least 2 months now and we need more people to complain, it is unacceptable, I have been really thinking of changing from apple in future, having been with then since the 1992. They are no longer what they use to be. Even their phones have been surpassed by others these days . Their mp pic is rubbish compared to others,

wake up apple, re evaluate yourself before it is too late.

i have two iPads a mac and a phone and it’s accumulating merely to make me get higher gb models., well I will go elsewhere rather than be blackmailed.

You must be running a new version of iOS. The reported problem in early iOS 17.0.x was real but was fixed in the later iOS updates. Apple’s refusal to simply acknowledge that there was a bug that was fixed is disingenuous

All of your music files should now be booked under “synced content “ memory. That is correct. What should now see is that is no longer showing up in the memory assigned to “music”. Before it was fixed, music synced from a computer was using the same amount of memory in both Music and Synced content (duplicating memory tied up by music files)

My 14PM is on 17.2.1. I have loaded approx. 16GB of my own music on it - ripped CDs, MP4s that I own from elsewhere, zero Apple Music. My Synch Data is approx. 16GB, the Music app shows 813MB of documents & data.

iOS 17.2.1 corrects the problem for me. I have 11.4 Gb of music synced from my computer. Synced media show on memory report is 11.15 Gb. Memory allocated to the Music app is now 23.4Mb for the app and another 100.7Mb for the Music app's documents and data. iOS 17.2.1 appears to have stopped the iPhone from mapping memory for synced music to both synced media and to the Music app's Documents and Data.

If you are still showing 8Gb of Music documents and data, do you have another music app, e.g. Spotify, that you use to store music for playback with the music app? That wouldn't show up as synced content, since synced content is only for media synced with your computer.

my iPad has 256Gb storage and is on version 17.2 and my synced data is nearly 102Gb. I have a separate allocation for music and that is 1.47Gb so how can that be correct? Why are Apple not responding to our concerns?

I have a lot of music. 89.44GB of synced content. My phone will not do the current update until I free up storage... iPhone 14 I just bought a couple months ago. Not wild about deleting and reloading to update if the update will not fix this.

Can anyone tell me what files are actually counted under “synced content”? Where can I find that information?

also, if “synced content” shows up as separate data, then it includes data that is not covered under other file categories. That would imply that the suggestion that it double counts data, or covers already counted data categories, is not true.

i can imagine that any data synced through the iCloud falls under this category, but for me that’s less than 5gb (I don’t have any extra data for iCloud), and yet my phone reports close to 60gn as “synced content”

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