Q: Music not syncing after iOS 7 update

I used the manager music under "summary" on my iphone 4s, seems to be working its downloading them slowly but so far its the only thing thats helped and ive tried at least half of whats on this discussion. hope it works for everyone! and thanks for everyone who wrote about it

So does anyone know if Apple has acknowledge this problem and what measures will be taken to address it?

I have both the 5s and 4s running iOS 7 and iTunes up to date. I am able to sync or manually add all the music I can fit onto my 5s with no issues. But with my 4s, I continue to encounter the same problem everyone here is describing. I have tried every fix/solution mentioned in the forum to no avail. This is clearly an issue with the 4s. So again, my question is has Apple fessed up to the issue and/or are they working on resolving this? When can we expect a fix?

I had the same problem of my music not getting synced after upgrading to iOS7. I tried all the different ways mentioned in the post however the only thing that worked for me was to turn off "Find my iPhone" feature. I am not exactly sure how is that related to the issue, but it did fix it. It was really frustrating spending a whole day to get around this issue. Note: After my music successfully synced, I did turn on the "Find my iPhone" feature and it did not cause any issue. Hope Apple can fix this issue soon as it seems to have multiple root causes.

Some experiments copying songs with my iPhone 4s with Manually Manage Music activated:

Thinking that the issue are related with the Smart Playlist I have deleted all the Playlist that I have before except 2: One with the songs with more than  3 stars with 443 songs and one with the songs played minus than 1 time with 6316 songs.

Times to copy:

With 2 Smart Playlist with 443 and 6316 songs with Realtime Update Checked

11 Songs: 1:27 minutes

10 Songs: 1:28 minutes

With 2 Smart Playlist with 443 and 6316 songs with Realtime Update Uchecked:

11 Songs: 0:17 minutes

11 Songs: 0:19 minutes

With 2 Smart Playlist with 443 and 6316 songs with Realtime Update Checked on the first and Unchecked on the second

12 Songs: 0:17 minutes.

13 Songs 0:18 minutes.

With 2 Smart Playlist with 443 and 6316 songs with Realtime Update Uchecked on the first and Checked on the second

Note: When I Check the Realtime Update on the second Smart Playlist starts a Preparing To Update operation that lasts 1:10 minutes.

13 Songs: 1:34 minutes.

10 Songs: 1:27 minutes

All the 2 Smart Playlist with the Realtime Update Unchecked again.

16 Songs: 0:20 minutes.

14 Songs: 0:17 minutes.

16 Songs: 0:19 minutes.

36 Songs: 0:27 minutes.

Checking again the Realtime Updtate on the big Smart Playlist starts a Preparing To Update operation: 1:15 minutes.

Conclusion: The issue is on the Smart Playlist Realtime Update. For some big Playlists you must wait the thme for update the Smart Playlist plus the time neccesary for copying the songs. Maybe you must multiply this time for every Smart Playlist that you have.

I had a problem syncing my music after updating to iOS 7.  It took three days but I was finally able to get it to work by restoring as a new iPod and syncing one playlist at a time. A day or two ago I installed the latest iTunes update. This morning I tried to sync one song and it got stuck "waiting for changes to be applied". Eventually I had to try to cancel the sync, which required a reboot because my iPod would not stop syncing even after it was canceled. I tried syncing two or three times, and then suddenly my "Other" category disappeared.  I have never had this happen before. It has expanded to fill up nearly the entire iPod, but it has never disappeared before. Now I am being told in iTunes that I have 51.81 GB in Audio and 42.67 GB free. I must be the only person in the world with a 94 GB iPod Touch.  Has anyone else experienced additional problems since the latest update?  I need help.  I do not want to have to restore my iPod again.  I have over 11,000 songs, all converted to 128 kbps, and syncing them all takes forever.

Update: I tried one more sync, and my Other category is now back but it is very small, smaller than it has ever been.  There were 11,035 songs on my iPod prior to my first attempt at syncing this morning.  Now there are 10,959 with no sign that anything is happening during the current endless "waiting for changes to be applied" cycle.  What happened to those 76 songs, and what happened to my Other category?  Is there anything else I could try other than a full restore?

Sorry, one more update. I finally canceled the last sync, and now my iPod shows 10,957 songs. So it looks like I am losing songs every time I try to sync. It doesn't make any sense.

I cannot believe I have had to wade through 12 pages of complaints. Mine is still stuck on "Waiting for Changes to be applied"

I've restored twice, I'm on IOS7.02 and Itunes 11.1.1.11. I've tried doing a hard reset/reboot so many times I've lost count.

This is now the worst experience I've had from Apple. Either sort it out NOW or give us IOS 6 back. NOT impressed

APPLE iOS7 is just horrible.  You relased a platform that is full of bugs and is way way worse then the previous one.  What the heck are you guys thinking?  GIVE US BACK iOS6.  Just scrap iOS7 and admit ur mistake.

the only fix i've found is a full restore and then restore from my backup file.

everytime i modify a playlist or add new music, the only way i can get it onto my phone is to erase all content from my phone and start again.

only takes an hour or so. what a great way of syncing!

surely apple have an iphone and itunes they can sync with and fix or is that asking too much?

thinking of switching to another non apple phone soon. too much effort.

Hmm I thought this latest version of itunes might fix the playlist problem, but no.  All my music is on my phone I think, actually there is apparently one more song on my phone than my total music library, but there are 47 songs missing from my latest added playlist of 250 songs ie 203 songs in the playlist.  My 4th gen ipod and ios5 ipad sync perfectly to the same macbook pro with the right number of songs in each playlist.  What is it about these 47 songs, the iphone 4S, and ios7?  (seems to be the same 47 songs everytime I sync).

Not sure if this will help but after 6 hours of trying to figure it out I noticed all my songs that I did not purchased from itunes had an exclamation point in a black circle next to them.  When I clicked on a song, I got a message stating the song could not be found.  I went to finder on my MAC to see "find" my songs and saw I had a new folder titled "itunes media" and only the purchased songs were there.  A few months ago, my hard drive crashed.  Apple was able to retrieve the data and put on an external one.  When I restored my itunes library I had to change the location and it returned to itunes media after the upgrade.  I moved all the songs (in Finder) to the itunes media fold and voila, it worked.  Songs are downloading to my iphone 5s as I type.  Good luck!!!!

I'm another cruel Apple marketing victim. Proved any of your solutions, and anything works for me. I was tired and desperate. I just bought an iTunes Match membership for a year and that solved my problem, but Apple already took its middle finger and showed it to my face and says: "I told ya... No piracy items."

It took me about... How many do think...? Hours? Hum...! It took me FOUR DAYS to upload all my 4,678 songs!. It seemed to be FOREVER!... But after a long time waiting, fighting with my modem, consuming a lot of broadband all items are on the Cloud. Now, I can download all my songs and smart or ordinary playlists into my iPad and iPhone. But it was awful, tedious and uncertain...

Sincerely, don't recommend it, but I depend on my iPad to work as a DJ, and you all may suppose how important was this sync-iTunes-music problem for me and my earnings.

That's my testimony... Best luck for all of you, guys.

KEY STEP:

I have read a number of users saying they reinstalled iOS7 then restored from backup.

This just puts all the content and settings back on as before.

You reinstall iOS7 with, 'Find My iPhone' turned off the when prompted, 'Set up as a new iPhone'

You then sync back your Apps, Music, Pictures and whatever else manually as if it were the first time you had an iPhone.

Everything now works for me except texting, I receive but contacts are intermittently not receiving my texts then I cold reset the phone, the messages in question show as undelivered so I send them again and they go but that's for another thread!  Roll on iOS 7.0.3!

I too use the IPad (iOS7) as a pro DJ. Only thing that works for me is first Unsync all music and after that check sync and put all playlist you want back on the device. Be patient as syncing will first seem to be jammed in "waiting for changes to apply" but after that will start putting all songs and playlists back on again.

As stated before this is not syncing but reinstalling. With more than 4000 songs in my playlists this is not the option I want for adding just a couple of songs.

When this problem first occured last week I didn't know what happend and it almost cost me to miss a gig (got there late and used my backup IPad)

Apple needs to fix this because it's just rediculous. My old iOS6 IPad which I use as a backup has no such problems so the solution should not be that hard te find for Apple unless this is a scam to get me (and you) to use ICloud for the storage and syncing of songs. As I already use Dropbox to sync and share music with collegues this will nog happen.

I love the IPad and is't possibilities to use as a DJ on a pro level. Compared with the Galaxy Tab is't 10 times better in hardware and app's but this is a major issue costing too much time.

APPLE FIX IT!!!!

Victor / The Netherlands