Move playlists from iPhone to iTunes

First, I manually manage my music. When I selected the option to sync my music then select "Selected playlists, artists, albums and genres" - I received a message to clear all playlist music on my iPod. I didn't like that as I have quite a few personalized playlists I've created in my iPhone 6s. After reading several posts, I did the following;

1. Connect iPhone - via the cable - to iTunes.
2. Select the iPhone icon at in the iTunes window.
3. Scroll down to the playlists on the iPhone.
4. Select the playlist you'd like to sync to your iTunes.
5. From the iTunes File menu, select:

   File -> Library -> Export Playlist

6. At the bottom of the iTunes save window, change the format to "XML" and select "Desktop" as the file destination - lefthand side of the screen.
7. Press the "Save" button.
8. Now in iTunes, select the music icon.
9. From the iTunes File menu, select:

   File -> Library -> Import Playlist

That's it!

Thank you so much !!! I just got an new phone and only wanted a select playlist on the new phone as not to clog it up with 8ish years of music, but unfortunately the playlist was on my old phone not laptop. I have managed to get the playlist on my laptop so now i can sync it to the new iPhone !!

Hi

This sounds logical but sadly does not work -- and I have to admit that I can barely contain my fury (and I really mean it) at Apple for the ridiculous mess they have created with iTunes. If there is one thing that I would say, having spent literally $100, 000's over the years, being an Apple developer and overall fan boy -- even with this I hate iTunes with an unholy passion.

This is one reason why.

Sooooo - when out and about, I often revise playlists and even add some new ones -- I then want to pass these back to iTunes on my iMac, reconcile them and so on. Is this freaking impossible to do? WHYYYYY? With freaking iTunes 12.4, I cannot see the new playlists in iTunes that are clearly shown in the Phone. ***.

Soooo - I used to be able to backup to the computer and the playlist would appear and I could edit and change them there -- in the case of anime conflict, it would append a "1" (for example blues for car and blues for car1. where the later is from the phone). No longer. Do these people ever actually use their products? arrrggg.

Please don't say that I should export after selecting because, as others have said, I cannot select something I CANNOT SEE.

Sorry for the all caps but I really done with this foolishness.

S

there is no "export" option available when I click the gray disclosure triangle...

HI Chris CA

Sorry to be dumb, but I can't see the disclosure triangle.

Please help as I also need to transfer playlists to my iTunes library.

Thanks a lot

Thank you so much Chris! Have been searching for this solution quite a time now.

THANK YOU CHRIS CA!!! I've been trying to find out how to do this for more than a year!!!

SOLVED!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thanks this solved my problem too. 🙂 Have a nice day,,