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Deleted songs/podcasts from iPhone still showing up in iTunes

I'm having a weird problem. Whenever I delete a song or a podcast directly from my iPhone, the next time I sync my iPhone to iTunes, the deleted song or podcast is still listed on the phone. It's not playable, it's just a dead entry which I have to delete within iTunes. Is this a new bug? When I deleted songs or podcast directly from the phone in the past (on different devices and previous versions of iTunes) their entries were gone the next time I plugged my phone in.


If anyone knows what's up, let me know.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Jan 3, 2012 11:11 AM

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Jan 3, 2012 1:23 PM in response to Mr_Lyle

Ok, a little bit more info. It seems that this only happens when syncing via WiFi. All deleted songs or podcasts still show up (broken with a "!" if I try to play them from iTunes) when syncing over WiFi, but as soon as I connect the phone directly to the computer with a wire, the initial sync gets rid of all the dead entries.

Feb 27, 2015 1:50 PM in response to Mr_Lyle

See if this helps/works for you:


- Eject your iPhone from your system, and close iTunes


- Either reconnect your iPhone and let iTunes launch or launch iTunes and connect iPhone.


- Let everything “sync”


- At the very top left in iTunes directly unite the red yellow and green buttons you’ll see a music note, a video clip icon, a monitor icon, 3 horizontal dots, and an i’phone icon.


- Click on the iPhone icon and there will be a check mark at the top to the left of “Sync Music”. Make sure that the “Selected playlists, artists, albums, and generes” radio dial has a dot in it.


Now here is where you need to look closely. . .


Underneath the header summary there will be 4 or 5 different trays/boxes/columns listed as follows reading from left to right, and top to bottom:


- Playlists

- Artists

- Generas

- Songs


- There might be a 5th at the bottom of all that titled: “Manually added songs”


You can select and delete/remove those songs if they appear in the “manually added” tray.


ALSO. . . In each of the other trays/boxes/columns, be sure to hover your mouse pointer over EACH OF THEM and scroll through the lists because there might be a checkmark next to something that is causing certain songs to “reappear”.


Let us know how you make out.

Deleted songs/podcasts from iPhone still showing up in iTunes

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