HELP - Greyed Out (Ghost) songs in iTunes Devices iPhone Music

go to Settings on your phone -> Music and toggle off Show All Music

ok, i had this problem and read through this string. After trying to right click and "download ACC version" of the "ghost" songs, I just clicked in the little round circles and then I noticed that all of the ghost songs starting showing a "timer" and apparently uploading. I don't think the ACC thing had anything to do with it, i don't know if it was some kind of an odd delay or what ?, but everything is synced now

Well after following all the advice on here and not getting a fix, I finally found a solution, i simply switched USB ports and viola!

Using your phone under the music app.

Select Library

Select Artists ( you could have this also under albums or songs)

Select Home Sharing

select Library instead on i phone

SO I just saw this thread and needing some help. bare with me as I'm a little iTunes slow. So I elected to use iCloud for my backup which thought meant don't sync up with my PC anymore. a huge amount of songs are greyed out and all references keep saying to sync up or delete. I want these songs so not sure what to do. Any help? I have an iPhone 6 And just did the most recent update. Thanks

Have you tried plugging the USB into the back of your computer?

THanks for the response. So I have not hooked up the phone since I went to icloud. I thought once iCloud was started I was no longer to go to the pic and sync. Was I wrong?

Had the same exact problem but found a very simple solution - Unplug the phone from the computer, make sure the music app on the phone is closed (force stop it) and then plug it back in. Without reopening the app begin copying the songs from itunes onto the phone. You should see a blue progress bar at the top of the screen under the song info showing they are being copied. This bar does not show up if they are not being copied correctly. I have not had a single problem since doing it like this. Hope it works for you as well.

Thanks, this seemed to fix the problem, I just deleted the play list and then redid it and it copied fine. Strange deal. Why some transfer immediately and some don't. I'm trying to put all my CDs on an external hard drive

The advice above WORKED, but for those of you that need a step by step guide, here it is:

* FROM YOUR PHONE go to My music

* Find the song that is grayed out on your Mac's iTunes

* Tap the three dots (...) next to the song (for iPhone 6S). A pop up menu will appear with some options.

* Choose "Delete..." A pop up menu will appear with two options.

* Choose "Remove Download".

* Go to your Mac's iTunes and sync again.

You will see your grayed out songs come to life again.

Hey dhugg, the advice above WORKED, but for those of you that need a step by step guide, here it is:

* FROM YOUR PHONE go to My music

* Find the song that is grayed out on your Mac's iTunes

* Tap the three dots (...) next to the song (for iPhone 6S). A pop up menu will appear with some options.

* Choose "Delete..." A pop up menu will appear with two options.

* Choose "Remove Download".

* Go to your Mac's iTunes and sync again.

You will see your grayed out songs come to life again.

Actually it fixed pretty easy for me with no external software needed. I switched to manually manage music and videos in the summary in itunes. Then I deleted all the greyed out tunes. Switched off the manual select in summary then reconnected the phone and hit sync - all the songs came back. Cheers!

followed your step-by-step guide...it didn't work.

OK, So not wanting to try any of the solutions other people offered like deleting everything off my phone or downloading an app to fix it, I just tried something that I thought maaaaaybe would work, and it actually did, and it took like 10 minutes, and I'm so happy because I've spent two days trying to will my phone into syncing properly.

- First of all, for this to work you have to have "only include checked songs" (or whatever it actually says) selected.

- From there, I unchecked like 4 songs in my iTunes that had been grayed out in the "on the iPhone" list

- I synced my phone

- I re-checked all of the songs I unchecked (again, only like 4)

- I synced again, and about 1,600 songs started transferring to my iPhone (the ones that were grayed out!)

I ended up doing it again because a couple songs were still grayed out, and it worked just fine again. I'm actually not sure that ALL the grayed out songs are working again, but enough of them are that I am totally convinced that this is the best method for me. If I find another song that's still grayed out, I'll just uncheck it and recheck it, easy peasy.

Hope this helps!

(By the way, I'm using a MacBook Pro, which is another reason I just tried finding my own solution because many of the other solutions were for people using PCs.)

I may not be the first to post this however, the fix was WAY more simple than anything I have read so far.

MacBook Pro with latest iTunes update

It's a bit tedious but nothing compared to deleting everything (especially if all your greyed out songs were all in one playlist like mine)

make sure phone is not connected to computer.

1. HIGHLIGHT (OR SELECT) GREYED OUT SONGS

2. RIGHT CLICK (TWO FINGER ON TRACK PAD)

3. CLICK "CHECK SELECTION"

4. QUIT & RESTART ITUNE

5. PLUG IN AND SYNC PHONE.

If its just a few songs you can click the 3 dots that show up beside it that brings up the menu options for the selection as well.

Worked for me, hope this helps someone. Cheers.