music not syncing with iphone 4s

If the tracks are greyed out, the songs might not be in the place where you uploaded them from. i.e. if you imported the songs to iTunes from "Downloads" and then moved the songs to "Music" after.

I think I finally got it! First, highlight your IPhone in Itunes and go to the Summary tab. Then, scroll down and check manually manage music and videos. Can't remember how to save it - select whatever to save the configuration. The, go up to the library, highlight music and drag/drop to your iphone music. Then sync.

This worked for me after trying all the other suggestions here:

1. Connect your Iphone to iTunes

2.Select Your iphone in the iTunes Devices list (Side bar/Column down the left-hand side which also has "Library" and "Store")

3. In the main area of the window, click on the "Summary" tab.

4. Tick/Check the box "Manually Manage Music and Videos"

5.Go back to your iPhone icon in the "Devices" list mentioned in step 2. Click on the triangle next to the iPhone icon.

6.Select 'Music' from the drop-down menu now revealed

7. (Courtesy of Macworld!)

The nearly-hidden Autofill feature in iTunes 8.1

At the bottom of the main sync area, you’ll now see the Autofill pop-up menu, which lets you designate the source from which Autofill should choose its music. Click on the Settings button to choose the other options: whether or not to replace all items each time you auto-fill, to choose items randomly, and to choose higher-rated items more often. You can also set aside a particular amount of space on your iPod for disk use. Click on Autofill to fill up your player.

Note; The more music you want to fit on, the less you want to reserve as "disk space' in the Settings above.

This is the only was I have found so far of just getting my music onto my phone. It's probably not ideal in the long run (one would like to be able to select artists, albums, playlists as per normal obviously), but at least it doesn't leave you musicless for the time being!

hope this was of some use. :-)

Well, I had the same problem for my Ipad2 but this is how I fixed it.

I connected my Ipad2 to my computer and clicked on the Ipad icon.

Then, I clicked on 'Music' at the top and checked the little box beside "Sync Music"

Ta-da. I synced it and my song showed up on my Ipad2. I hope it works for you.

I had the same issue: everything worked fine with my old iPhone 3G, but after upgrading to a new iPhone 4S (with iOS6), everything synced except for music and photos. Syncing music was displayed for about one second in iTunes, but then it quit without any errors. Result: selecting the music tab on the iPhone device in the left hand menu of iTunes showed all songs greyed out. "Music" on iPhone showed up empty.

I tried everything from restoring the iPhone, synching with music checked/synching without music checked and back again. No solution. Manually managing music: no solution.

Solution: move your iTunes Music folder to a new folder. Then throw the iTunes app in the trash and download/install a fresh copy of iTunes! Then drag your old music files back into the newly installed iTunes and voila. Everything syncs fine now!

I lost hours figuring this out, so by posting this I hope you don't have to waist your time as well.

I just found this thread because I too was getting greyed out songs. The solution I found with not one single grey song in the list on my iPhone 4 with v6.0.1 and iTunes 10.6.3 was to first, on my iPhone I went to Settings/Wi-Fi/ and turned Wi-Fi off. Then I connected my phone to my MacBook Pro (still using 10.5.8 Leopard), and under the Summary tab of iTunes, I unchecked "sync only selected songs", and checked "manually manage music". Then under the Music tab, I checked every Playlist and Artist I knew I wanted and made sure everything else was unchecked (just to make sure nothing would sync that I didn't want on there). I clicked Apply down at the bottom right, and then clicked Sync. If it syncs automatically once you click Apply, then it's not going to sync right. If done correctly, the songs should take a bit longer to sync than you're probably used to, but that means it's syncing it exactly like you want it to, not how it "thinks" you want. When it syncs the other way, it evidently has some type of code structure that tells it to do all kinds of extra tasks that we "assumed" we didn't tell it to do. I hope this helps any and all of you with the "grey song blues".

Hey, I had the same problem, I could sync new playlists, but new songs were not vissible on my iphone, but when I checked using Itunes I found that the new songs were on my phone, but they were grey and with this wierd circle in front of the title, I changed the names a bit (mostly put _ between some parts of the title) and it works. I think Apple has come up with some kind of anti-download safety, which keeps illigaly downloaded songs from syncing with your divice... Just an idea, maybe just a problem in the itunes update... Hope this helps 😉

I finally fixed this bug with my itunes match and want to share it with everyone. I updated to iOS7 on my iPhone 4 and the playlists were all showing as empty or with only a few songs. Tried pretty much everything - hard resets and turning on/off itunes match. Finally I turned off iTunes Match on both the iTunes on my PC and also on the iPhone. Did a hard reset to the phone. Logged out of both (Apple user ID). Logged back in again. Connected the phone via the USB to the PC and then turned match on again inside iTunes on the PC. And then turned it on again on the iPhone. Bingo!! I can now see all my music again :-)))))))

The same thing happened to me, but I found a fix for it.

1. Select all the songs that will not sync to your iPhone.

2. Right click the songs and select "Create AAC Version."

3. Sync the songs to your iPhone.

This is what worked for me.

I've had a very similar issue where just a couple of songs did not sync at all but the playlist showed up.

My fix was:

Removed ALL music from the device (uncheck music & sync)

Then checked the sync music tickbox again and synced - it then uploaded all the music including the tracks which weren't moved before.

I ran into this problem a little over a week ago. Got it to work after completely wiping out my phone (4S) and syncing as a new phone. It continued to work until yesterday. Trying every one of your suggestions today and no luck. I'm frustrated. Is Apple doing anything to resolve this?

It will begin to sync then stall at the 6th song then cancel and give me a message to the effect that it's unable to sync because it can't find my phone, but my phone is connected

I've seen this message a couple of times as well...

Honestly apple I am officially disappointed and dissatisfied with your work you make us wait so long for ios 7 which has had plenty of bugs and issues because we've had to upgrade twice now my music from my itunes library will not sync into my iphone what's next? you do not know how frustrating it is to ride a nyc subway without music don't mess with my music hurry up and get this fix find the solution fast!!!!

Try this: Plug in your phone and open iTunes. On the sidebar click "Your" iPhone > Summary... go down to Options and uncheck everything. Then sync. By doing that all of my music was restored to my phone. Never had issue with my apps so that was fine. Afterwards I checked "Sync only checked songs and videos", resynced and everything was back to normal... for now.

It's a **** shame we have to figure it out ourselves. Still no response from Apple