Album artwork not syncing on iPhone iOS 5.1 update

@ Ralo14

Was your friend's phone on iOS 5.1? Was it a iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4s?

I'm having this issue on my iPhone 4 and iPad 3rd gen.

Same thing started happening to me when I did the last iTunes update—very, very annoying!

I can confirm this answer! You just have to reconvert your songs in iTunes instead of your iPhone (if you have it set to save space and convert to 128kbps or 192kbps for example). If you do this in iTunes first, then transfer the 128kbps or 192kbps or 256kbps songs with album art the sync them into your iPhone, all is better! It's not the permanent fix (maybe the next software update will help this), but at least it helps clean up the missing album art on the iPhone concern that many people have...

I found another solution that worked for me. First I went to Albums view on my iPhone and deleted (swipe to right and confirm) all albums that did not have a cover. Then I connected to iTunes and synced iPhone. First time it synched them the same way (no covers), but after I tried 2nd time, all albums got covers. I have iPhone 3GS (v. 5.1), iTunes 10.6.0.40 on Win 7.

Hi all, I'm running a 4S fully updated, and the latest version of iTunes running on my 24 inch iMac. I don't usually put a lot of music on my phone but have tried doing so recently and have discovered that I too have this problem. I even just tried buying an album from the iTunes store, put it on my phone...STILL no artwork appearing on the phone - the music, yes, but the cover artwork? No trace. Apple...I have been a user of your kit since 1987 but lately, you are really starting to try my patience! lol (Or perhaps I shouldn't laugh?)

Agree that there is a problem consistently getting album artwork onto iPad & Ipod when manually installing with current versions of iTunes & IOS. Agree that the problem is associated with changing the bitrates of the song files. Have found that I get 100% installation of album art if I convert the songs to the file type and bitrate I want in iTunes before I transfer them. After I have finished & disconnected the device (iPad/iPod) I go back & delete the special versions I created. Time consuming but worth it if you want all your Album Artwork on your iPad, iPod or iPhone. Hope Apple fixes this problem soon.

Must say to that this applied to album art I got from other sources(e.g. Amazons & CD Universe) so the theory that Apple were turning the screws may be overstated.

Thanks. Yep...you're spot on. I didn't know how, and haven't time to look into it today, how to 'pre-convert' in iTunes, but, just as an experiment, I deleted two albums from my phone and this time set iTunes to NOT change the bit rate, just to transfer them to my phone 'as is'. Low and behold all went perfectly and the artwork is now on my phone. Thanks for your help. It just means that I now I have larger files sizes for each music track on my phone although, as I said before, I don't keep all my music on it (I'd need a phone with 160 gb of memory! lol) so it's not a major issue for me. Be glad when Apple finally sort the problem though so everything 'Just Works' again! lol Thanks again for your assistance and explanation as to what was going wrong. Regards, Dave x

I have my library in AAC lossless format and I check the box to compress music when syncing. iTunes now removes all artwork when transferring music to my iPod touch. I have contacted support and they have confirmed this as a bug/change but the rep suggested that to insure that it gets fixed that everyone should submit feedback....soooo....please do so!

well, at least the bug is present when syncing mp3s with downsampling to 128 kbit aac (for example). if you don't use downsampling - it's all cool. fix that please asap, !

I do not convert to a lower bit rate and I'm having this problem. As far as I can tell only artwork that I got by clicking Get Album Artwork is affected, all the artwork I added myself transfers. I have iTunes version 10.6.1 and iOS 5.1 on my iPhone 4S.

Same problem here, iphone 4s, 5.1 IOS, latest iTunes, everything that is converted to 128 is without artwork, please fix asap!

I have the same problem. All albums that are converted for IOS devices lose album artwork. I guess I can live with that and wait for a fix from Apple...

Just purchased a new ipad (3rd gen) and only 2 albums have artwork. Music was converted by itunes to lower bitrate for the transfer process to the ipad.

This artwork non-syncing issue seems to be a common problem. Apple needs to look into fixing this. Not cool for a device that is over $800.

AHA! At the bottom of the Music screen in the ipad (3rd gen) there are a set of buttons named store, playlists, songs, artists, albums, and more. Press the more button, then select shared, then select your computer in shared (I am sure home sharing must be on). All of the album art showed up immediately.

Jeremy: You are the man! And it looks like the same thing works on my iPhone 4s: At the bottom of the screen within the Music app, touch "More," then "Shared," then select your computer's library and voila! L'art d'album! So glad I didn't start messing with resets and the like.