IOS 8 won't sync music with itunes

I updated my wife's 4S from iOS 6 -> iOS 8 and am having the same problem. Extremely frustrating as she's gun shy of updates and I finally convince her and now the most important thing to her (music) is inaccessible!!

Also, I'm getting the phone hanging in 'waiting for changes to be applied' for hours. I left it on all night and it still didn't complete.

Welcome to our (1st world problems) nightmare. Tweet about #syncgate if you are able. Only way this will get actual traction.

I suspect that you have to be signed into iCloud now as well or nothing works correctly. We never use iCloud so I didn't sign in on my wife's phone... I was getting 'your phone is not set up' errors when I tried to manually backup. SO:

1) Signed into iCloud on the phone

2) Reboot phone

3) Reconnect to iTunes

4) Force Quit iPhoto as it struggles to read all the images on the phone

5) Click 'Manually manage music and videos' checkbox, found on the Summary tab once you have selected the phone.

6) Sync

7) Presto, tracks start copying over finally.

Uh Oh. Official release notes for 8.1 appear to referance this as a "Known Issue" after restoring from iCloud backup.

This is bad. I don't think this will be fixed in 8.1.

Release Notes:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General/RN-iOSSDK-8.0/index .html

Wait! My last post was for 8.1 BETA release notes.

Below is the link for 8.1 GM release. The note about it being a known issue is GONE in these new release notes!

There may be hope yet!!!

8.1 GM release notes:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/Miscellaneous/RN-iOSSDK-8.1 /index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP400149…

You are correct. It's not fixed. 8.1 does not fix this problem.....

It's still not fixed....now I can either get my music to sync or my movies - not both!!! I hope the bluetooth issue is fixed but I haven't driven my car to find out yet. Do not sync ....yet!

****!

I've upgraded my iPhone to 8.1, updated Macbook Pro to Yosemite, updated iTunes, too. Everything is current and up to date.

I restored my phone to factory, iOS 8.1.

I disabled iTunes Match on the phone and in iTunes.

I'm currently about 2500 songs into a sync with 12,244 total. I'm hoping it completes without an issue (that is, includes all album art and metadata).

I'll post back to report if it will subsequently sync with no issues. It will take several hours to complete the transfer of 12,244 songs to the iPhone 6 Plus.

Wish me luck!

I did all that...multiple times. NO LUCK

Warning biffnixx - the very first sync worked and I thought all the issues were resolved - it was when I did a second sync to add something to my phone that things went downhill.....I have finally gotten movies and music on my phone but I'm missing album artwork (btw 90% of my content is from iTunes) - I had to sync music - let that finish then do my videos. I kept getting the strange error that I was out of space although iTunes showed I had 14 gig in free space. I went to Manage Storage to just delete music from my phone and start over but it kept crashing (and I only had 8 gig of music at that time) so in the end I deleted apps that I didn't use from the phone so I could sink music and I had to delete more apps to sync videos. I will add the apps back once this all gets sorted out. I still have 14 gig of free space. I'm going to refrain from syncing until I'm sure this is fixed.

The new iOS 8.1 update fixed it for me. It looks like Apple's going to be spending the rest of this year cleaning up iOS8. Idiots.

FINALLY !!! Everything is working again , just had to check the manage music manually box and everything sync' wit no problem , hopefully it works for everyone else !!!

Good to hear! I'm going to wait for a few more success stories before I try. Was it from a fresh install? Or did you just do a normal sync adding just a few songs?