My music won't sync to my iPhone 4S after updating to 11.1

HAD SAME PROBLEM BUT FIXED IT!!!!!! try holding in sleep button up top and home button at the same time for around 6 or 7 seconds until the phone blacks out then start it again and then plug it into itunes again. worked for me

I noticed that only after rebooting both my pc and iPhone 4 that the sync would abort on one particular item, a ringtone. That ringtone also was a checked album on my iTunes music tab. I unchecked it, and all the other albums. But then the syncs just wouldn't finalize at the last stage. It didn't abort while a song was downloading. Checking and unchecking Sync Music didn't work either. Then making sure I had only my playlists checked, I did a restore. That worked. Not sure if unchecking the albums was necessary,

OK, here is what I found worked, and you may not have to RESTORE.

#1 Turn to Airplane Mode

#2 Make sure you have the Update to the newest iOS, then uncheck all music.

#3 Back up your phone (You should anyway)

#4 Click on the music you want to Sync

#5 Sync

Music should start to copy over..

After hrs of trying different things this seemed to do the trick

I have a iPhone 4S

Cheers

I had similar problem after updating and what I did to solve was to go to:

1. iPhone settings => Music => HOME SHARING

2. If you notice HOME SHARING is not signed in to your Apple ID, you probably need to key in your password to log in.

3. Once HOME SHARING is identified under your Apple ID, connect your phone, go to iTunes and do a sync. (Note: ensure your Music library is checked for syncing)

After sync completes, you should be able to get your music back.

Good luck!

I read everyone's response and this is what worked for me. Turn off iCloud and Find my iPhone, back up your phone first then do a restore, music then synced correctly. Remember to Find my iPhone back on...

Well, thanks all of you for your patience and your answers.

All that beeing said, the best way to deal with this issue (which I haven't fixed) will be to switch to a new OS.

I am on my way to buy a samsung, I am FED UP with apple products!

Good choice, I ended up throwing away or returning every Apple product that I owned. Seems that there are multiple sync problems involved with itunes. Too bad Apple products are best work my car stereo. I'll just spend the money I used on my Apple products to buy a car stereo compatible with android.

I am so fed up with Apple products.

Yesterday myself and a friend spent half a day sorting out my iPhotos on my iPad. Fixed that, finally. Argh.

Then tried fixing my iPhone's music library. My iPhone music cannot be 'seen' by my laptop's iTunes app - it thinks it's empty but I have over 400 songs that I can't remove. I can neither sync nor de-sync.

We are two mac developers, between us over 30 years experience, and not able to sort this out. Complicated, much?

I just purchased a new iPhone. I'm sorry I didn't get Android.

I was having issues as well, nothing seemed to work. This resolved it for me and my library is now synced. Hopefully it does the trick for others!

Settings > iTunes & App Store > Use Cellular Data (enable)

If your problem is like mine, it is probably being caused by iCloud. Ever since the iOS 7 update I have been having various problems with syncing, weird data on my iPhone, and even just playing music on my phone. I've had to restore twice in the last month, and both times the problem was coming from iCloud. First of all if you have "Show All Music" selected under the Music setting in your phone, I would suggest turning that off. It can mess up your music data as well as other data on the phone, or make it so all songs on your phone only play from cloud, which uses up data if you aren't using wifi. I'm guessing if you could just turn Cloud off for a minute and then try syncing that it would work correctly again. Unfortunately you can no longer turn iCloud off without deleting your iCloud account. And Cloud can be really useful, so you kind of have to work around it.

The first time I encountered this problem, I was having the same problem as you, it would get to the fifth step and then wouldn't sync anymore, and many songs from my library were corrupted and their data was missing on my phone, even though they played fine ON my phone. I restored my iPhone and this sort of worked. Then after the restore I just had all this weird "Other" data on my phone. I think this too was being caused by iCloud since when I turned off "Show All Music" many songs that I hadn't redownloaded were still showing up in my music library. There were over 11 GB of this "Other" data and because of this I ended up having to restore again yesterday and then my music wouldn't sync at all. This was because I restored from iCloud.

So if you already restored your iPhone, and your problem is purely that your music won't sync from your computer, do one of a few things. First, if you haven't already, go into your iPhones General Settings, and click Reset. Reset it to whatever it came as. It won't effect any of your data don't worry. It will turn off whatever iCloud setting you accidentally turned on during your restore, and you should be able to sync again. This worked for me.

Another thing you can try is to turn Sync off and let it clear out your library, then turn it back on and let it restore your library again. And if all else fails and you decide you have to try to restore it again, try restoring from backup from the computer rather then iCloud. Make sure ALL your data is saved to the computer though. I wouldn't want you to lose any of your contacts or anything.

I hope one of those things helps.

Hi,

I tried some of the solutions here and I found what worked for me was to turn off the automatic ICloud backup and select the automatic backup to this computer. Hey presto, it synced. Hope this helps.

Does anyone know if Aple has acknowledged that this is a widespread problem? I, for one, have tried every suggestion listed in this thread and nothing has worked for more than a couple days. I think that there are so many variations of the same problem, on many different phones, and so many different "fixes," that this shows there is an inherent compatibility problem with the latest iTunes and iPhone software.

Any news on Apple working on this?

I have exactly the same problem with my iPhone 4S and my girlfriends iphone 4.

After spending weeks of troubleshooting with Apple today they told me that my MP3 files are bad and that`s the reason the sync wouldn`t work....

But before using iOS 7 sync with exactly the same music files worked always just fine!

The fact is: On two iPads 3rd gen, one iPad 4th gen, one iPhone 5 and an iPod touch synchronizing the same music is working without any problem.

I told Apple about this but I have not got an answer.

It is impossible that suddenly all my MP3s are bad! They are working just fine with other Apple iOS 7 devices as stated above. This is ridiculous!

I also wrote Apple the link to this thread so that they can see I am not the only one with this problem but they don`t care.

Please, go ahead and open tickets with Apple about this problem so they have to do something.

My iPhone 4S has 64 GB and I normally have about 45GB of music with me.. but at the moment as I`m not able to sync it it`s just an very expensive and almost useless (for me) mobile phone...

I had this problem too!

I tried a variety of things. But the thing that finally worked for me was:

I went to usage under iphone settings and deleted all my music.

Then I turned off my iphone and turned it back on again.

Then I synced the iphone to my computer.

This sync didn't cancel and now I have all of my music!

Having this issue still. Talked to apple a few times and got temporary fixes, but they still haven't given me something that will continue to work. I'm not sure why this problem hasn't been addressed!