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

Thank you so much, Janinefromks! I tried a variety of other suggestions, but yours is the only one the worked for me (on iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4). Can finally go to bed at 2:26 a.m. . . .

Ok this has been bugging me now for weeks as well. I spent last 24 hours working on it trying all these options and nothing worked.... till this morning. I am confused as to what is changing but there is the scenario.

Apple Macbook Pro and Iphone 5s.

If I open iTunes, left side of panel I see my iPhone 5s. I click the summary tab and under options at the bottom I have checked only "Automatically synch when this iPhone is connected, Sync only checked songs and videos and Manually manage music and videos". Doing this allows the songs and playlists to actually copy over. I can now watch the music as it copies over. Before it would seem to hang saying applying settings and eventually stop with nothing copying over.

Here is the part I do not understand. If I go to the tabs at the top "Summary Apps Tones Music" etc. If I click on the Music tab the box "Sync Music" is not checked and the "selected playlists, artist, albums and genres button is checked but greyed out".

If I click synch music, it unchecks the boxes on the summary tab at the bottom under options. As though they conflict. Yet my music is copying over. It appears the only way to get new items over to the iPhone is to now drag and drop from my play lists, music etc over to the iPhone.

This also seems to apply to books, photos, podcasts etc.

i'm on a lowly WIN7 computer and am having same type issues when trying to sync. new songs show in my iphone 5 playlists when viewed in the computer/itunes library. but new songs will not show in the itunes app on the phone itself..until...i simply play a few seconds of the new song on the computer. then all seems to sync fine.

Thanks for the tip. It had been frustrating last few days when the playlists and photos were not syncing.

You made our day.

It worked! Thanks ChantelMac!!!

It actually didn't work at first, but after undoing the "Show All Music" from Settings-Music, getting rid of everything, I tried again and it worked! It worked on my iPhone 5s and my iPad...hurray!

Also for my new iPhone, I realized I hadn't logged into Home Sharing in the Settings-Music.

That is exactly the same with me! You can't even delete them!

i had the same exact problem but as soon as i took off my phone passcode they started downloading and changing from the gray font to black

THANK YOU GOD it finally worked i love you thank you so much for this

Yes!!! But don't worry, it must be a Microsoft issue because Apple never has bugs.

Had the same problem. Talked to a techie person in a Mac reseller. According to him, updating IOS directly on the phone may result in some corruption of the software. The best thing to do is to update via the iTunes in the computer.

To overcome he problem, you can try this:

1. Manually back up iPhone into the computer

2. Then, it the Restore button. This will completely delete everything in your iphone (Do make sure you have backed up your phone!!) and the latest version of IOS will be installed. This may take a few minutes.

3. When this is complete, and the iphone icon pops up again, you will have two options: 1. Set up as a new iphone or 2. Restore backup.

4. Hit the restore backup button. This will take a few minutes.

5. As far as I can tell, all my previous data (contacts, photos, etc were back in the phone.

6. More importantly I can now drag and drop music from the itunes in my Mac directly into my phone

7. YESSSS!!!

I reckon if we all ask for our money back Apple just might pay attention, although it looks to me like customers are too much of a problem for Apple to deal with, so lets make it easy and all move away from all Apple products.

I had a bunch of problems all linked to iCloud, the NSA spyware, and even after I've "removed or deleted" iCloud I still have problems so the problems either Apple's lack of interest in customers or lousy NSA software.

Trevormitchell1212 helped me a great deal. I plugged my iphone into itunes, went to "music" on the menu, unchecked "sync music", and then "apply" (at the lower left of the screen). This will erase all the music on your iphone, there will be a message that says so, (at least does not show up on the menu's list, but songs and artist will still show on your iphone).

I then checked "sync music" (either "entire library if you have enough space available, or "selected playlist, etc.) and then click "apply" again. All the selected items will then show up.

I was so frustrated but this was an easy fix.

P.S. I did not have to turn off my passcode.

Hi,

This worked for me also.

I backed up my phone, unchecked the sync music button in iTunes and then hit apply.

After this process went through I was once again able to sync music between my iTunes account and my iPhone.

I also didn't have to turn off any passwords or other settings.

Thanks for restoring my sanity and helping out.

Yep, this worked for me too. Finally a solution.