iPhone songs not in alphabetical order

Go into iTunes, choose whatever song is showing up out of order, double click and click "Get Info". Then click sorting and remove whatever you see is unusual or remove all sortings except the name of the song.

It seems your iTunes Library is corrupted.

Are you using manually manage music option?

With your iPhone connected and selected in iTunes, Summary tab (right at the bottom above Configure... button)

There're a few ways to organise the music, my manually manage is off and I've create a playlist for syncing with my iPhone. It serves me well.

I also have in iTunes menu File > Library > Organize Library.... > Consolidate files done.

This will index the music, update the database and copy all the music to one place (Music groups/Albums/songs) also makes it easier to backup or move.

I will suggest you delete all the music from iPhone and then create a playlist in iTunes like I do and sync.

If you go to the music file in the itunes library you will see at the top there is a bar that says name, time, artist, etc. and if you press the name section on the bar it will automatically sort it into the alphabetical order

I have the same problem. As fig. 1 shows, songs starting with T-K-L-T-L-T (in this order), are listed under the letter "S". I tought that the iOS update would correct that, but fig. 2 shows that it hasn't.

I have spent a lot of time filling correctly all fields in the ID3 tags, so I'm confident that there are no "hidden values" that would cause this disorder.

As OP said, this seems to be a bug since iOS 5, because I remember having no problem with these before. And as for what eunyuli said, doing that would order the songs on itunes, but not on the iphone.

Fig. 1 - image taken with iOS 5

Fig. 2 - Image taken with iOS 6

It's useless trying to look for a song on my song list, because you won't find it where it should be.

I can hear Apple's solution now, "You're searching it wrong". I can't believe they can't get a simple thing such as this right. Maybe they're busy suing everyone in the world.

This is related to this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3460345?start=0&tstart=0

Updating to the new iTunes 11 seems to have fixed the problem for me. Does it work for you?

Did you need to remove all your music and add it again? Because the itunes update alone did not fix it.

i know it isnt helping,but i really need help for my question here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5027053

i am really sorry for not helping you..but just incase you know my problem or everyone in this dicussion knows how to fix it,i would be appreciate that..i really need help here,thank you so much.. 🙂

GOT THE FIX.

I have called numerous times and the engineers now know about this- i am running ios 7.0.2 and newest itunes

this does not matter as much but its part of original problem but I bet FIX is on way.

here is a semi-annoying but easy fix.

First off- back up phone and get it where ya like it.

next step- ERASE all music off of it. Turn off the icloud so it does not download again- take it all off.

sync your phone with it all off and no music added.

turn it off

turn it back on and just add back all the music playlists you had-

it will fix it- WORKS everytime. Its a pain to do- can take 15-20 minutes depending on library. Took me 18 minutes all total and I have 5000 songs.

Best i got for now but at least i can find my songs using the arabic alphabet again and not random hodgepodge

I checked on my iphone and found that it copies the song order from Itunes playlist. So before syncronizing put your songs on itune in alphabatical order. It solved my problem.