Q: Music not syncing after iOS 7 update
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Oct 16, 2013 6:22 PMby ike_e,After many attempts using various suggestions in this thread, this finally worked for me:
- in iTunes deselect WiFi sync option
- connect iPhone using USB
- in iTunes deselect all music, videos, books, etc
- sync (this removes all iTunes content from the phone)
- in iTunes reselect the playlists, books, videos, etc. that you want on the iPhone
- sync again
- result: all the playlists I selected were successfully synced to the iPhone
This method worked for me with: iPhone 5, MacBook Pro running iOS7 and iTunes version 11.1.1 (11) 64-bit
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Oct 16, 2013 7:14 PMby marliefromstony plain,Thanks. I had to create my own combination of all these options to get it to work. But now it's done.
This is my son's phone and this show's me that there is no way in **** I'll be doing this nasty usly updaate on my phone or ipad. My son already says he wants a windows phone because of this experience.
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Oct 20, 2013 4:43 AMby Vivstar33,It's great there is so many people here offering suggestions and sharing the solutions they have found for their particular problem.
I can't work out, though, why on earth is Apple apparently wilfully ignoring that the issue exists?
I want to add music back to my phone by album or artist, not by playlist. And I don't want to restore my phone from factory settings.
Is that too much to ask from the biggest (and best?) tech company in the world?
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Oct 20, 2013 6:37 PMby Jnp9,I as well have had synhing issues since upgradin to iOS 7. For me, what seems to have been causing problems are songs that have belong to the same album but have different artwork. On iOS 7 songs can be sorted by Album name and the albums each have a little thumbnail of the artwork. When I had songs assigned to the same album, if one of them had a different artwork than the others than my sync would fail.
I made sure all my albums had consistent artwork and my syncs worked after that
This is the only thing that worked for me. All the other suggestions listed on this forum did not work for me.
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Oct 20, 2013 7:09 PMby seasthesky,after trying a few ideas here, what has been "working" for me as a fix was
1- as recommended, I removed all my music by deleteing from the iPhone (4S, recent replacement for stolen phone, in case this makes a difference.) the data attached to music;
--unchecking sync music in iTunes, allowing it to sync w delete (where it keeps only iTunes purchased music)
--resyncing when rechecking the Sync Music -- for some reason I had to do this twice, after a reboot of iTunes & iPhone, but then it worked.
2- each time I modify music, i have to uncheck, Sync to nothing, then recheck and Sync again for my music changes to be applied. No reboot has been necessary the last two times I added music.
APPLE, it would be great to not have to jury rig a solution. Please fix!
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Oct 21, 2013 9:14 AMby namonai,I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT:
I have a DisplayLink USB adapter that has also been flaky since iOS7 -- and yes, that has nothing to do with my phone, but what it *does* have to do with is OSX 10.8.4, which apparently broke some of the permissions on the driver. Anyway, I was instructed to do this:
- Start Disk Utility
- Select your primary hard disk
- Click the "Verify Disk Permissions" button
- Let it finish.
After I did this, I noticed a lot of iTunes fixes, and after it was done, my phone syncs without any problem (and my DisplayLink now works as well).
Hope this helps others!
