Local file album appearing on iPhone but not on Mac


Hi,


My last MacBook recently died and I decided to get a new one and boot it up as new rather than from a backup. My apple music library synced over, but seemingly not every track is appearing. There's one album I have (not streaming, downloaded from elsewhere) that appears on my iPhone downloaded, but only a couple songs from this album appear on my Mac.


I have tried turning off/on Sync Library, and have also tried logging in/out of apple music on both devices, but neither of these are working. I'm just looking for a way to get the files back from my iPhone onto my Mac.


Thanks!



MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 3, 2025 12:42 PM

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Mar 7, 2025 10:22 AM in response to revolve456

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community.


The easiest method may be a temporary subscription to the Apple Music service, merging the music on the device into an iCloud Music Library which you then download to a computer and backup for security, however it seems like you may have tried this already. Perhaps that tracks that haven't transferred are not compatible with the Apple Music service. Ideally you would have had local backups of your files. You may be able to extract the remaining tracks with third party software.


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Local file album appearing on iPhone but not on Mac

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