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How do you transfer music to iphone 5

I have the iphone 5, but I have no idea how to transfer music from my itunes on my pc to the iphone 5. Can anyone take me through the process step-by-step? Thanks.


I figured it out.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 23, 2012 5:45 AM

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Posted on May 11, 2017 3:56 AM

I got it by clicking on the iDevice towards the upper-right, under the Info tab scroll down and check the box to Manually manage music. It will warn you that it needs to erase the library on your iPhone, proceed knowing that it will clear your music off your iPhone but you can then copy the music from your computer's iTunes library back on to your iPhone. Check it here:

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Worked with my iPhone 5.

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May 11, 2017 3:56 AM in response to Ric4do

I got it by clicking on the iDevice towards the upper-right, under the Info tab scroll down and check the box to Manually manage music. It will warn you that it needs to erase the library on your iPhone, proceed knowing that it will clear your music off your iPhone but you can then copy the music from your computer's iTunes library back on to your iPhone. Check it here:

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Worked with my iPhone 5.

May 10, 2017 10:17 PM in response to kimycolsen

kimycolsen wrote:


I got it by clicking on the iDevice towards the upper-right, under the Info tab scroll down and check the box to Manually manage music. It will warn you that it needs to erase the library on your iPhone, proceed knowing that it will clear your music off your iPhone but you can then copy the music from your computer's iTunes library back on to your iPhone. Check it here:

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Worked with my iPhone 5.

iTunes will not copy my music library to my iPhone 7. I have plenty of space on the phone for the entire library and I have "Sync Music" and "Entire Music library" checked in iTunes, but when I sync it never actually copies the music over. It did not load the music on the phone when I first set it up as a restore from my old iPhone backup.


I have restarted both the phone and my iMac and tried toggling the setting for syncing only checked music in iTunes. Nothing works.


Before sync, the Summary tab for my phone in iTunes shows that there will be 17GB remaining after the music sync, but as it goes through the sync, it skips over the music transfer step, then spends a long time waiting on the last step (something about waiting for changes to take place... don't remember exactly what iTunes says). Once the sync is finished it shows that 42 GB are still free on the phone and the blue bar for music is gone, and nothing has been transferred to the phone.


I have tried syncing only playlists with smaller numbers of files and get the same result.


I have never been shown any kind of error message.


I have the phone connected to the iMac using the cable that came with the phone.


I am using the most up to date version of Mavericks and iTunes on a 2009 iMac and I have a 64GB iPhone6.


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Jul 8, 2013 4:14 AM in response to Ric4do

I am trying to transfer a lot of music from my PC to my iPhone4. Some of it transferred into iTunes without issue but most of it I receive an error message "...songs in protected WMA format...". All of these are from original CDs that I own but I really don't want to have to install them to transfer to my iPhone. Does anyone know know how to easily (even with 3rd party software) get around this? I've read a lot of forums but no one has mentioned this specific issue. Thanks for any help!


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