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

When I plug in my phone into my computer and try to sync my playlists on iTunes to my iPhone, the sync completes but the songs will not transfer. I even tried deleting the existing playlists from my iPhone and I couldn't even do that. I have literally tried everything that I know. Any suggestions?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Sep 28, 2013 2:13 PM

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Posted on Jun 16, 2017 4:17 AM

I figured it out! A million hours later and 4 in the morning but I figured it out. So I did everything updated my iPhone 7 newest software same w iTunes on my windows computer everything. Nothing worked. Until I had to go to my actual iPhone go to settings, music, then turn off iCloud Music Library and enable home sharing. Then once I did that I went back onto my computer went to iTunes and synced manually. All I did was on iTunes go to your phone section and click sync. Once I did so I was then able to add music. I dragged the music to the device and it was finally added. I domt know what's going on w apple and why it's become so much harder to sync music. It was so much easier back in the day. Anywho I'm just glad I finally figured it out. Now I can listen to my hypnobirthing tracks on my phone.

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Sep 22, 2017 1:54 PM in response to ajal1

Hi guys. Been having this problem for soon long and Its so annoying. I don't have a total fix but something which may help some of you. I mainly use apple music so theres only a few tracks on my mac that i want on my phone that aren't available such as downloaded mixtape etc. They play fine on my iTunes and sync to my phone only to show as grey and do not play whatsoever, they even crash my phone slightly if it comes on shuffle. So annoying. However if you have iCloud music library turned on you can actually right click the tracks you're having problems with on your computer iTunes library and select 'add to iCloud music library'. It should be second on the list directly underneath 'add to playlist'. There will then be a loading circle show on top right hand corner of iTunes screen as it uploads. Once its finishes it should now show in your music library on your phone as long as you have everything set to sync across devices.


If this DOESNT show as an option iTunes is being a pain in the *ss but its ok theres still a way. You will need to delete the song from your iTunes, it should prompt and say that it will also download from iCloud library. Ok this.


Next locate the actual audio file on your hard drive wherever its been saved, double click, should automatically open and play in iTunes. The add to iCloud music library option should now be there.


This workaround only works one track at a time which is a bummer but if theres certain songs your desperate to be able to listen to on your phone its good enough.


Sorry if I've used wrong computer terms and if this is confusing but i don't know a lot about computers and terminology etc


Hopefully this will help at least one person!

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

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