iPhone 5 Wont Sync Music w/iTunes 11.1.3

this worked perfectly! thank you!!!

Yup - been struggling myself with this for two days. Unchecking the 'Sync with this iPhone over WIFI' checkbox and checking the ' Convert higher bit rate songs to 128kbps, button now syncs perfectly. Thx all!

Well after trying different solutions. I did the following to get my ipad to sync itunes playlists.

1) Switch wifi off the ipad.

2) Conected to my iMac via th ecable

3) (after a few diffenrent attempts) I then unticked the the sync Music at the top of the music tab

4) Applied/synced

5) then re selected the sync music box then applied/sync

6) after a mo check my music app and finally they went up.

Still doesn't work. It's happened before, and it's happening again. Cuts off after 5 songs, & cancels sync. I don't want to resync all 3000 songs again :|. Apple still has yet to fix this issue, and it's been months...

Thank you wildernesshike! It fixed my issue and was able to get the music on my iPhone 5. I know it's a temporary fix until there is a bug fix, but at least it worked! Thanks for your great outline for the steps to fix!

This definitely did the trick. As i switched back and forth from the music tab and the summary tab. I found out that both do not remain checked. After i unsynced, i left the "manually add music..." unchecked and on the music tab i checked "sync entire library" and applied. and it definitely worked.Thanks!

This worked for me , go back to basics, take the whole lot of sync off , so you have nothing on phone , and then start again , but it seems to be the Wifi sync that did it .. A million Thanks !

I've been having this same problem since I got my iPhone 5s back in October. New songs and changes to playlists are not syncing to my phone. I have to wipe all the music from my phone, and then re-sync to add it back. This is a bit time consuming, so it would be nice if Apple could fix this glitch! It seems like there are enough people having issues syncing music to where this is clearly a bug.

I too cannot get music to sync. I'm running latest 11.1.3 iTunes and iPhone 5 ... I've tried everything, including turning around three times and clicking my heels.

Any more updates on this issue?

After several tries and a couple of weeks this method finally worked.

Turned off WIFI on iPhone.

connected USB cable to computer

unchecked sync all music under the music tab. then applied.

closed itunes. then reopened.

rechecked sync all music under music tab. all music. then applied.

music is now syncing back to phone.

double checked my iphone and all music is back on phone. and playing. YAY!!!!!

Hey guys!

I actually found a solution that's worked for me twice (so far). After trying everything, it seems to be easier than I thought. No need to restore via backup or anything. Beforehand, I've tried unchecking music, rechecking, turning off wifi sync, restoring purchases after a failed music sync, restoring, etc, etc. You name it.

Here's my solution that might work for the majority of everyone.

1. Plug your iPhone into your computer, then go into iTunes.
2. uncheck your music sync under the music tab in iTunes so all of it gets taken off your phone.
3. After you sync it, and all of your songs are off (Shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes). Go on your iPhone, then Settings - General - go all the way to the bottom where it says Reset - Reset all settings
4. This should just reset your settings, but it won't remove any of your data, messages, home icon/folder locations, contacts, photos, etc.
5. After it's done resetting, and your phone restarts, go to your itunes, and sync again.
6. After it's done syncing, recheck your music sync under the music tab on itunes (You don't have to reselect your playlists, etc)
7. Sync your phone, and voila! Your music should sync back. It's worked for me twice after numerous attempts at other solutions.

(Note, when you reset all settings, you just need to add back your wallpaper, passcodes, and location services after you sync your music back on. It acts like you're deleting cookies off of your browser. Nothing gets deleted).

Hopefully this works for some of you that continue to have problems. It only takes me about 30 minutes to resync everything back in if the problem comes up in my playlist with 1,900 songs (so it's a hassel unchecking and rechecking each song that has a problem D: )

This worked for me on the iPad Air and a personally created playlist. Just to rule out any bad playlists, I removed all playlists except one to test and using that method works as a workaround. My guess is you might need to avoid any Smart Playlists using this fix.

Yes Apple needs to fix the glitch, but this is working on the short-term for my issue.

Prior to reading your solution I tried Checking just "Sync only checked songs and video" under Options on the Summary Tab and was able then to sync a newly added CD to the iTunes library to my wife's iPhone 4S. Previous to that change it simply would not sync though it had synced to her iPad2.

None of these suggestions have worked for me. I don't know why this issue hasn't been fixed yet by Apple..

I was having a similar problem syncing music to my iPhone 5, I tried all options I read here and nothing worked until I tried this:

iPhone 5 wifi turned off >plug into iTunes using USB > in the 'summary' section of iTunes under 'OPTIONS' check only 'manually manage music and videos'

Then go to the sidebar area find 'Devices >iPhone 5 then click the little black arrow so a drop down menu appears with all that is on your device... click on "music" then you will notice the 'Autofill section on the bottom (as pictured) > click on the dropdown box and select the correct option to 'Autofill from' like selecting "music' so all your music is synced.

This helped me after 2 hours of frustration...

I hope it helps!!

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