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

I had the same issue after the latest update. Turns out all I had to do was highlight my songs, right-click, and choose "Create AAC version." This worked for me on imported tracks (not iTunes purchased).

GUYS!

I fixed this by doing the following;

1. Plug you phone/ipod onto your laptop

2. Hard shut down your device (press home and lock button at the same time until apple logo appears)

3. Make sure you dont plug your device out

4. Wait for it to reappear on itunes

5. Your songs should start downloading on themselves

You're welcome 🙂

Im have similar issues as each of ya'll but i have 2 itunes on 2 computers and one is mine and the other is my dad's i want radioactive by imagine dragons but it says i have already synced to my itunes. I try syncing my music so i can get music for my iphone 4 and it asks if i want to erase everythng like music etc. Ive tried connecting his phone to my itunes and going to the top left of itunes clicking file and scrolling down to devices then it will show sync your iphone or transfer purchases from my iphone. I tried to transfer his purchases and it just transfers his apps and still didn't work ive tried everything Apple seriously needs to fix this crap.

I figured it out i did what i said in my other post i went to the top left and clicked file and went to devices clicked transfer purchases then i let it sync it all. Then went to sync music.You will have to erase all music in sync, then during my selection of music it synced all of the songs i wanted.

I have the same problem. I did what PyroTrumpet5 did, but when I plugged it back in and resynched the phone, nothing happened. I tried again and again but to no avail. I am running the latest versions of iOS 7, iTunes, with an iPhone 5C on Windows 8. Please help!

Never mind, I got it working again. Only now iTunes has lost some of the songs I purchased, as well as imported songs. The imported ones will be no big deal, just find the CD they were on or re-download them, no biggie. It's the ones I actually purchased from iTunes that I'm going to need to figure out. I want to thank Trevormitchell1212 for helping me with this particular situation.

On the first "tab " when you click on your iPhone from the sidebar, there is an option toward the bottom to manually manage music. click and let the setting update (may require a sync). this solved my problem.

Thanks GasparVences! That worked for me!!! 🙂🙂🙂 I also stood on one leg, crossed my fingers, quacked like a duck and waited for a full moon....but seriously Apple, why? It used to be so easy.

I found the solution!!!!!

The same thing happened to me!

What i did is I went to the itunes on my mac and when i plugged in my iphone i clicked on the iphone link. Now here's the issue people keep having...they keep clicking sync but what you need to do is click on the music link on top lined up horizontally with "summary" "info" "app" and then when u click that "check" the Sync Music box and then hit sync and there u go! U should have all ur music :-)

Hi everyone, I think I have found a solution:

When you have your iphone connected to your computer click your phone on the computer

and go to summary. Make sure you go down and check off that "manualy transfer music" because if you dont

it will not let you transfer it otherwise. I had the same exact problem

Okay. So, I have music on my computer and when i tried adding some on to Itunes to add on to my iphone 5, i would get the grey circles. Like the transfer wasnt complete. Then i noticed the toolbar that says file, edit, view, etc. Under file there is soemthing that says "add file to library" then a pop up window of your computer pop ups. I went to my music folder and picked the song i wanted added and clicked open. It was added to my library. Then i clicked the song(in my library tab) and drag it to the right corner that says "my iphone" and dropped it in. Then i went to "on this iphone", and went down to the song i added, the original with the grey circle was still there, but the same song from my library was transferred. It was a copy, so i just deleted the one with the circle and now its on my phone. I hope this helps. 🙂

It wouldn't work for me after I synced it so, what I tried was I went to iCloud, went to storage & backup, and said backup now. After that was finished my songs were on my iPhone. Hope it helped a little! 😐

I think i figured it out! Your songs from itunes wont transfer or sync to your iphone if the original location of your songs from your computer has been changed. To check this, try to play the song(s) from itunes. If it plays well it should show up on your iphone once you sync it else it would give a message of changed location and wont play.

I hear you! I don't know if they found out I use youtube mp3 to get songs or what, but music wont transfer to my iphone. instead another option is ( if the music is in your library. My music goes in there just wont transfer) if you move those songs from your library into a playlist and then sync it, that works too. but its just annoying because its time consuming the music still isn't in the 'songs' section... but it should appear in that playlist you moved it into.. it worked for me.

I use to be able to do it. I can still drag and drop, but it won't allow me to do that.

My previous computer gave up, but I managed to retrieve a iTune library back up.

I don't want to risk syncing my phone to the new computer because some songs I have on my 4S I don't have a back up.

Is there anyways I can add song (from CD) to my iPhone without wiping my existing songs on phone?

Or is there something missing that I haven't done, that won't let me drag and drop?

Appreciated, thanks!