I set up a new iphone 17 from my old 13.
lots of passwords to be reset, but worst and sadly enough my music library wasn’t transferred. I have the titles, but in grey and they dont play.
on my watch series 11 its working.
what can I do to get the music back on the phone?
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Original Title: Music transfer
iPhone 17, iOS 26
If your Music Library is music purchased from Apple then you will have to re-download it from the Apple Servers.
If it was your own library that you created from other sources I would transfer it to a Mac or PC from the iPhone 13 and then have your iPhone 17 sync with the computer that the library is on.
I believe that purchased music does not transfer. (A leftover from the iPod model, where you got music onto an iPod by loading it from a computer,, synchronization was one-way from the computer to the iPod, and you could only synchronize against one computer/library at a time?)
If you are not using "iCloud Music Library" (that is, you're not using iTunes Match, and you don't have an Apple Music subscription where "Sync Library" is enabled), then I believe you would need to manually load purchased music onto the new iPhone. Either by
You might first need to do a manual synchronization to the new phone with NO music selected, to clear out the greyed-out music on the phone. ("Sync Library" copies from before ending an Apple Music subscription?!?)
If you are currently subscribing to iTunes Match, or are currently subscribing to Apple Music AND using "Sync Library", I'm not sure exactly what you should do to get things working. (Maybe turn off "Sync Library" on the phone, do a manual synchronization of NO music to the iPhone, then re-enable "Sync Library" on the phone – hoping that it will then do an "iCloud Music Library" synchronization with your computer?!? Just a wild guess. While I've had several iOS devices (an iPod touch, an iPad, and an iPhone), I've never upgraded a phone while subscribed to Apple Music and using "Sync Library".)
it was music I had transferred from CDs to one of my former phones.
I’ll try to get them over to my pc and from there to the new phone.
It is still puzzling me why they are on my watch and not on my phone.
strange, isn’t it?
You can't go directly from a CD to the phone. You had to have put the music into the music library on a computer and synced it to the phone.
You need to re-sync it from the computer to the new phone. If it is no longer on the computer, and you no longer own the original cd's, you no longer own the music.
Thanks
I’m not a subscriber to Apple music.
it was songs that I had from CDs which were moved to one of my former phones and have been following me since.
Until now.
And they are on my watch.
Strange, isn’t it?
Thanks Tim,
but why was the music then moved to my new applewatch and not to the new iphone, I wonder?
It has to do with how the data on the watch is backed up.
Music library not transferred from iPhone 13 to iPhone 17
