Why won't my songs transfer from itunes to my iphone?

I was having exactly the same problem, and I tried all the many things people suggested (I restored the iPhone, reset network settings, tried using playlists, turned "show only music on this phone" on and off, etc). Finally I turned off Genius, and voila - everything works again as it should.

I have been having this problem for months now! And it is extremely frustrating. I have read thru pages and pages of this post and have tried change several of the setting options as suggested. I even tried deleting everything and starting from scratch! But I think I have found a simple solution.

I have a MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.1

an iPhone 6 running IOS 9.2.1

my music is set to allow me to manually manage it, but I was still having problems with select songs and artists.

Solution:

Turn off passcode on phone!

I have no idea why this worked but it did!

I think the issue is that Apple wants to store all your music on the ICloud and will only download what you tell it too.

I just resolve this issue myself. Here is what I did.

On your phone, go to ITunes Store. Click on "...More"->Purchased->Music->All songs. At this point you should see a link at the top which says "Download All", or you can individually download songs by clicking on the icon which looks like a cloud with an arrow.

Had the same issue on my new iPhone 6s.

Solved it on my phone by going to Settings/Touch ID & Passcode/Turn Passcode Off

by doing so you bypass the passcode access on your phone.

Plug into your computer and have iTunes to sync the music you desire and voila!

Once finished, your music will show on your phone.... Enjoy your music!

Thanks for this answer, it worked for me but I also noticed that downloads I do in You Tube and use a converter to MP3 program those songs go directly into my ITunes on my computer but I cannot transfer these songs onto my IPhone unless I right click on the song and select create ACC version which it redoes the song and that version is able to convert to my IPhone then. So if anyone wants to know about direct downloads off of You tube to a converter program you have to convert to ACC version to get the song to work in your IPhone. This is a pain in the *** to do but it works for now until Apple gets their **** together and does something about fixing this issue.

Many thanks from the Mightycat.

This does not work for me seeing as I do not have a mac but I tried it with my pc asus computer and did what you said and still nothing wont sync properly to my IPhone I am ready to go out and buy a MP3 player this is not working at all for me no matter what I do.

Simply go to the music tab on the sync page this is the page that opens when you plug in your device. iPhone iPad ect. When you click on tab it gives you the option to sync I tire library click this tab make sure you backed device up first and it will transfer all your library .

I am appalled how not user friendly Itunes/Ipad is - even on this site, one has to circle through endless pages before being able to post anything. I wanted to post my own question, but it was not possible, that's Apple for you! I bought this piece of .... almost two years ago and deeply regretted it. Since then, I'm unable to use Itunes as a library for my songs and transfer them to this device. Itunes recognizes the Ipad, I select the songs (because syncing would of course erase my library, another brilliant failure of the software), but nothing happens. Simply won't transfer over. Furthermore, when I bought a new PC and had to download Itunes again, Itunes no longer recognized the library on Ipod, so I can no longer use this device. And since it's impossible to import the Itunes library from the old PC, that is it, you're s.....d. Thanks Apple! Now I understand why your stocks are failing so miserably on the market (will be dumping them to the garbage soon along with Ipad). You simply don't want to understand what the customers want and need here, but I'll help: 1. customers want user friendly devices 2. customers don't want to be forced to purchase anything from your store 3. customers want to be able to upload/download content between devices with ease. What is this Itunes software anyway? A complete failure! It is NOT working, the internet is FULL of complaints and no resolution from Apple 3. customers want usb ports where with a click of a button content goes back and forth 4. customers want to be able to hear when Skype is ringing, another major failure with this device. Honestly what are you hoping for Apple? And what is this ridiculous auto correct thing? You can't even type, it writes nonsense.

I had this problem but then I clicked on my iphone (the little iphone button next to the drop down menu) the clicked on music in the settings section and it says sync all music libraries. Hope this helps. :-)

This problem rears its ugly head every now and then. It is a **** nuisance. Eventually Apple release a new version that fixes it for a while. Obviously they don't know what actually causes it. The answer probably is to buy a new mp3 player that doesn't rely on Itunes.

yes also me, I'm about to throw this Iphone6 and curse it... I can't even transfer my music into it,, seriously apple? how you will satisfy us customers on this? we pay a lot of money and can't even listen to our favorite songs. I will definitely switch to P9.... coz everytime I transfer or add music into my library I always got a problem, it's not a friendly user.

I make playlists that have to be exactly 44:30 and time out exactly with certain times. Sometimes playlists on my iPhone 5c the music app through iTunes go from saying Downloaded at the top to the cloud with the down arrow. I used to be able to fix this by re-syncing with iTunes, but now that does nothing and if I try to do it on my phone by hitting the cloud symbol it comes up that my Apple ID has expired and to go to View Account. I can't find View Account in the music app on my phone, but I did it on my laptop and it is not expired and says it is connected to my phone. So now 3 of my playlists are all messed up and I still have more to make and I get times and play them every day that I work. Please someone tell me how to fix this without deleting anything or calling a number.

That will not help iTunes will Will not recognize any idevice let alone support it.A 2007 Mac mini is outdated Apple is forcing us to buy a newer computer at 10.6.8 it can,t be updated.Why own a iPhone if you can,t back it up and add music from your own music Library that you imported from thousands of songs and spent the time to do it . Apple is becoming too controlling .

I know this all too well. I recently downloaded one of twenty one pilots old albums and my favorite song in there is air catcher. For some weird reason it disappeared from my phone one day, so I tried to put it back on. Every time I tried it wouldn't show up. I deleted the album and put it back on my phone. Every song was on there except for that one song.

I have plenty of storage and have pressed sync dozens of times and I'm pretty fed up. If my phone can take the whole album, then it has plenty of room to take one more song.

I solved this problem.

what I did was manually remove all songs that are grayed out from iphone.

on itune

iphone>music will show all music in your iphone and look for songs that are greyed out.

remove them from library, and youre done.