iOS 7.0.3 will not correctly "manually manage music and videos" any more?

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iOS 7.0.3 will not correctly "manually manage music and videos" any more?

So, on all my iOS devices, I have always used "Manually manage music and videos" to drag albums from my iTunes library to my iPhones.

I then use iTunes to delete the albums and replace them with others (I have a lot of music).

With the iOS 7.0.3 update -- if I delete songs on the phone in iTunes 11.1.2 -- they show (in iTunes) that they have been deleted.

However, the songs are still on the iPhone when I go back to the Music app.

Is anybody else seeing this? I filed this (as it wasn't an issue with 7.0, 7.0.1 or 7.0.2), but am wondering if I'm missing something terribly obvious all of a sudden...

My only options at this point are to manually delete songs on the phone individually or to delete *all* the songs from Settings -- neither of which is optimal.

I filed a bug on this, but wondered if anybody else ran across this and figured out how to fix it?

Posted on Oct 29, 2013 7:05 AM

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Steve Maser Author

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Nov 14, 2013 1:52 PM in response to Steve Maser

I'm still seeing this with iOS 7.0.4

Nobody else who manually manages music is having this issue?

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Mar 29, 2015 8:22 PM in response to Steve Maser

I am also having the same problem and EXTREMELY frustrated. I am using iOS 7.0.4 with iTunes 11.1.13 - I did not have the problem until updating to the new iOS bug update last night.

Apparently there is no way to manually manage your music by dragging, dropping, deleting anymore. After speaking to an Apple rep last night through the online chat, they told me this feature is no longer available and that in order to manually manage accurately you must now "sync" music and select "sync only checked songs and videos" under the summary tab.

I have not tried this yet. I refuse to believe that I now must wipe my iPhone clean of 800+ songs to then go through and recheck each one after I "sync". I am staying hopeful that this is a glitch and they fix it or someone finds the solution. If anyone does, please let me know!!

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Mar 29, 2015 8:22 PM in response to Steve Maser

It looks as though I MAY have found a solution after playing with this since last night ... Let me know if it works for you!

I went through and deleted a few random songs through iTunes on the "On This iPhone" tab ... they still showed on my iPhone but not in the Music part on iTunes. I then clicked sync at the bottom next to the memory bar on iTunes and it seemed to have removed the songs from my iPhone.

However, my iPhone is saying I have 1 more song than my iTunes is saying which I still don't understand but if I can still manually manage my music I guess it's a small price to pay for the minor confusion.

Really getting tired of becoming a detective just to work my phone appropriately. Apple should really stop making all these changes and stick to what the customers know and like. Frustrated and annoyed customers won't raise their sales...

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Steve Maser Author

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Nov 18, 2013 7:22 AM in response to Community User

So, I did some tests over the weekend.

It appears (and this is new behavior), that if you manually delete albums/songs from the iPhone, that they are only removed when you do a "sync" now.

Be sure to file this bug at the BugReporter. What I don't know is if this is a "bug" in iOS 7.0.3+ or a bug in the newer iTunes.

I know this worked in iOS 7.0.2 and whatever version of iTunes was out at that time, but I can't say exactly when it stopped working...

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Steve Maser Author

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Nov 26, 2013 8:10 AM in response to Steve Maser

So, just FYI...

This is actually a bug in the newer iTunes versions. I tested this against a machine running iTunes 11.1 -- and there was no problem.

Upgrading to iTunes 11.1.3 -- the problem appears (and it was there with 11.1.2 as well...)

So, if you have access to the bug reporter, please file this bug against iTunes.

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