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Greyed out songs on iphone after iOS 5 update

So I updated my iPhone 4 for the iOS 5 update. Before doing mine I did my husbands iPhone 4. My update seems to have been successful but all my songs are greyed out, however they're fine on his phone. It did prompt me to change our applie ID when we set up his phone so we did that. We're both signed into the same apple ID (just like we were before the update), and I just can't figure out whats going on. HELP!!

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Posted on Oct 12, 2011 9:32 PM

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Oct 14, 2011 4:56 AM in response to jmommy06

This is happening to me too!! All 2,887 songs of mine are greyed out and wont let me play them!!! I tried restarting but it didn't help!


I also lost over half my apps (100+) too!!!! They disappeared from my computer and phone! I had to go and redownload 100+ of them from the purchased area and then recheck them all to sync! There are still 48 of them that are "waiting" to download but there has been no progression for the past 7 hours!

Oct 14, 2011 6:44 AM in response to jmommy06

I have a similar problem, about 25% of my songs are greyed out on my ipad2 after the update. Some are songs imported into iTunes but others were purchased. Out of 3 songs I purchased on my Mac last night and synced to iPad, only 2 work. The 3rd is greyed out. iTunes won't let me download the missing because it says it is already installed.


Strange.

Oct 14, 2011 3:32 PM in response to jmommy06

I had a similar problem with songs greyed out and not syncing and apps not syncing either. I also tried multiple restarts and redownloading iOS5 etc. The one thing which seems to have sorted it out for me is buying a (free) app from the app store on my iphone and then syncing with itunes. Oddly enough this seems to have woken itunes up to the fact that stuff wasn't synced and started the process of a full sync.


A bit random and i read this on another thread, but it worked for me.

Greyed out songs on iphone after iOS 5 update

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