Q: Music not syncing after iOS 7 update

What a pile of crud, how an earth can Apple get away with this!!!! If it were a product sold by a small business they would be out of business!! Why all the rubbish about work arounds it should just work like it has previously!!! 7.0.3 plus 11.2 does not sync on my ipad or iphone its quite simple Apple _ PLEASE FIX IT!!!!!

Hey guys, had the same problem today, after updating my itunes.

When I synced, a large portion of my music just suddenly disspeared & couldn't play on my ipod touch 5th gen (running ios7) anymore.

I had a look through all the solutions but none worked for me.

Finally, I unticked sync music on my ipod, which removed all my songs.

Then ticked it again, synced it, & it works.

Hope that helps.

Several of us have experienced the same as you, ninjajelli, where clearing all music and resyncing worked once, but the problem seems to always come back. Twice now I've thought I had it fixed but eventually the syncs failed again.

7.0.3 is the worst yet. Not even restoring iOS 7 and setting up as a new iPod Touch allows it to work. Somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 songs, my 64 GB Touch enters "derp mode", where it gets stuck for ages on "Waiting for changes to be applied" after copying the music to the device. During this time, iTunes CPU usage and disk activity is nil, while the Touch CPU usage averages around 60%. If I go into the Music app, I see that all artists after a certain point have songs that are grayed out with icons on the right that are "red circles around red squares". As I watch, the songs turn black, and the icons disappear, at a rate of one song every three seconds. Once in derp mode, it never gets any better. Syncing no changes can take hours, and all the while, the Touch is at 60% CPU usage. I determined the song range by syncing various subsets of my master playlist by genre; that is, I created a bunch of genre-specific playlists and sync'd them one by one, and I did this several times, in several orders. If there is a bad song, I can't determine a pattern. I have iTunes convert to 128 Kbps AAC, and for these tests, all are ALAC to begin with. This never happened with iOS 6, and with iOS 7 before 7.0.3, I could at least restore iOS 7, set up as a new iPod Touch, NOT restore a backup, and sync my music. This no longer works.

I just attempted to sync a playlist of 1331 songs to my phone. As always, it failed part of the way through. (For me it appears as if the sync has completed, but obviously way too quickly for the number of songs.)

On the phone I opened the music app and went into song view, scrolled all the way to the bottom to see how many songs were there, and this is what I saw:

iTunes had completed its sync at this point and no more songs were being downloaded to the phone.

This is so terrible. It's been 10 years since I bought my first iPod, and this is the first time I have ever had a problem syncing songs to an Apple device from iTunes. Third gen iPod, 1st gen Shuffle, iPod Classic, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4—all of them worked flawlessly. And now, a $399 ($849 retail) iPhone 5s with all the latest software is not capable of this basic function?

Pathetic.

I am also a iphone5s user.......got it brand new yesterday......

been using iphone4 for 3and half years......never have much problems with syncing music

the most basic function and also one of the function that got apple famous is now down.....apple should fix this quick

remember when steve jobs said, iphone=a phone, an ipod, an internet communicator......ipod is one cruical part of iphone!!!!!

Someone should call apple and refer to this post. This is a real big issue. I could sync all music to iphone but when I wanted them in different playlists it failed. Even omce when I did all this and wanted to add a new song it removed some songs. Its a big failure from apples side.

I cant even get someone on the phone without having to pay for it.

This is rediculous, already had problems with series I bought (season 1-5 of breaking bad) and now music which I need for sports.

Not even the last updat of itunes fixed this, seems to me Apple doesnt care about the people who have this problem.

I opinion of Apple keeps dropping and dropping.

I have the same problem. I´ve tried all the different solutions that worked for someone but my problem is still here. I really don´t know why apple has still no fixed this problem. Is a very big problem and they are not taking care at all.

Now, 0 songs in my iphone...

This is the part where I point out that the Moto X is freaking amazing. I saw it at a conference recently and it pretty much blew my 4S out of the water.

I have no loyalty to Apple as a brand. As soon as their products stop being the best, I jump ship.

Mavericks looks great, but the revamped iWork feels like it was made for school kids.

iOS 7 looks great, but is actually pretty sluggish.

I'm about to jump ship...

Look Apple.

I have two iPhones, one with iOS6 and one with iOS7. I can sync my playlists only with one with iOS6. Isn't it so obvious? What are you doing?

my phone will not sync when i updated my one to ios 7.0.3 what do i do

if you have a 32-bit computer, install the 32-bit iTune... it saved my day.....

if you don't then sorry there's nothing you can do as of now... save your breath and save your tears.... :-(

Same issue here on my iPhone 5s! This is so annoying and I hope this will get fixed soon...

Other companies get crap for less... why is this not all over the media!??

How does Apple expect me to continue buying songs from iTunes?  Forget that!  Looks like I will be going back to buying CDs and looking for a different alternative to having music on the go... I have over 1.5T of music... hundreds of CDs that I have moved to iTunes, another couple of hundreds of iTunes purchases.... this s-u-c-ks big time....!@#$%@#$%