Music not syncing after iOS 7 update

I ended up just restarting my phone and reinstalling iTunes. It worked for me.

I tried every suggestions including resetting & restoring mac and iphone without success.

Somehow, I succeded after I tried "manually managing music" option in the summary page. Plz, mess with this and let us know.

i have tried hard reset, restarting itunes, etc but it stays stuck on 'transferring purchases' and then jumps straight to waiting for changes to be applied. what is the solution here? the rest of my music appears but one whole playlist folder refuses to sync

So I pretty much took all the different pieces of advice :

1) I did a hard reset

2) Disabled the auto lock and the passcode

3) Created a playlist of about 20 songs, tried syncing only that playlist and it worked !!

So I created a bigger one with all my music and it's been like 10 min and it's still at "Waiting for changed to be applied". I think I'll live it for about an hour to see if it's stuck at that point again

I uploaded the iTunes 11.1 and did the iOS 7 all in the same day, but I had deleted a few playlists just to clear some space for the iOS 7 update. Come to find out, those same playlists got deleted from my iTunes as well, and even when I went back to create new playlists on iTunes, I can't seem to get them to appear back on my phone. It's driving me bonkers. So the songs/artists/albums I wanted to put on my phone all appear on my phone, but require me to download them from the Cloud which seems stupid, that defeats the point of my syncing them.

I'm quite frustrated and P.O'd by this. Didn't have this problem before the iTunes update.

Extremely frustrating.

Before updating to iTunes 11.1 and iOS 7, I have never had a problem syncing data of any kind to my iPhone 4S. Now, every attempt to transfer music to my phone fails. A few songs transfer successfully before the sync is cancelled. The Music library on my phone shows every song I attempted to transfer but they're greyed out.

I've restored iOS7 several times. Reinstalled iTunes several times. No change.

Having issues on my iPhone 5 as well. Everything was fine after initial installation, but it would not sync any of new music to my itunes. Tried restoring it from a back-up and now 80% of my apps will not upload and appear to be 'grayed' out and non-functional. None of my music playlist will synce either. I guess the next step for me is going to be to restoring my phone as a 'New Phone', which is a huge pain because I have a ton of apps and folders that I will have to rearrange.😠

Do your apps say "Waiting" ? I had the same issue but then I clicked on the App Store > Updates > Purchased. And then I re-installed all my apps from there one by one. All of them worked fine afterwards and I didn't lose any data. Hope that works for you as well

As for the music, regarding my last post, I left it alone for like 1+ hours and it's stayed stuck at "Waiting for changes to be applied" so I gave up and cancelled the syncing. It worked fine for the small playlist but it doesn't when I put all my music in one playlist and sync. This is frustrating to no end

There should be an option under the "Summary" tab on your iPhone home page in iTunes. Scroll down to Options and click "Manually manage music and videos" and you should see your colored storage bar at the bottom do some big jump and hit apply. Go through all of the "Are you sure you want to..." messages that appear. Go back and select all the apps, tones, music, movies, podcasts etc. that you want and hit "Sync."

That worked for me and I finally saw my songs and stuff and podcasts (😍) transfer to my phone.

For those struggling with the 'Cancelling Sync' issue who have tried everything. I suggest looking for a particular song that might be causing problems. I noticed that before my syncs were cancelling iTunes were attempting to sync the same 5 or 6 songs. I then attempted to add each one of these songs individually to a playlist that had fully synced until I narrowed it down. I then deleted this song from my iTunes and appear to have fixed the problem! As for why this particular song was cancelling my syncing, I don't know...

Only clear solution so far.

I restored it and DID NOT use back up. Instead, I had to put my app & contents one by one from the scratch. So be sure to back up all the contents in your computer before ttying this.

This method comfirms that nothing wrong with my music files.

This works for me...

Sorry.

I tired 1000 songs while I am doing some set up of new(?) phone and sync stopped again...

Will try again from the scratch without doing anyting while syncing.

I restored iPhone again to the factory setting and tried to put songs without touching iPhone.

I succeded in putting about 500 songs first time.

I succeded in adding about 1000 songs second time.

My third sync to put 2000 songs more stopped after about 300 songs.

And it goes again. The sync keep being cancelled after a few songs.

I connected my phone again and it looked like the syncing worked. When I went on "On This Phone" all my songs were there. But, only 1/4 of the songs actually appear on my phone

Uninstalled then re-installed iTunes with no success, it's back to getting stuck at "Waiting for changed to be applied". When I look on my Itunes on the pc, all the songs are still there but most just don't appear on my phone.

I am having this problem on my iPhone 5 and my macbook Pro. I restored the phone last night and set it up as a new phone, it finished and loaded music and then more than half the music was not actually on the phone.