Itunes 12 does not have the "Manually manage music" option

But if I turn off iCloud Music Library, it erases all Apple Music songs from my iPhone... and I really don't want that. Anyone have a way to manage music (I can't currently sync ANY playlists) wihout losing my Apple Music?

Steps 1 & 2 seem to be irrelevant - must be another bug that is now fixed. Step 3 is the crucial one. (And you need to reconnect to the iTunes "parent")

Seems like you need to switch off iCloud Music Library so you can Manually manage and download your music. Then once that is done you can turn the iCloud Music Library to recover your Apple Music. Terrible software - do they understand how people use it?

This needs to me Fixed not all my music is going to be in Apple Music as much as I like it. I am a music nut and i have ton's of stuff from all over.

Like Livedown's of live shows that will never be on Apple Music.

I am agog. Not what you expect from Apple. What were they thinking? What if I am away from wi-fi? I can't listen to music, my own music, on my iPad because I was prevented from moving it? And for what reason?! I'm seething.

iPhone can only add music or video from a single iTunes Library.

Is this correct, you can only add music to iphone from one computer? I have different music on work computer vs. home computer. Would like to pick an choose music from both computers to put on my phone. Are you saying this is not possible? Seems like you could do this before and with a recent update to itunes it was removed.

Where can I find iCloud Library in Settings? I have iCloud Drive turned off now but that doesn't make a difference.

A million thanks!!!! I spent hours reading suggestions that all failed and watching inept u tube videos . You are my hero!!!! 🙂

I copied and pasted your directions into my draft folder for future referral. How did you get to be so smart? he-he-he !!!!

Your instructions are clear and concise and perfect!!!!!😍

thank you! that worked. Too bad that if this is the "fix", I'll stop paying for apple music...

This procedure works great as long as your leave iCloud library off on your phone.

When I follow these steps, I am able to manually manage my music. But, when I turn iCloud library back on, it deletes some of the music from my phone. What is strange is that in iTunes, it indicates that the music is "on my phone" but it is not. I have tried restarting my iPhone, etc,. to no avail. So it seems my option is to leave iCloud library off so I can manually manage all of my music or turn it off, and not see all of my music.

I have tried to figured out this problem since I have 3G IPhone 2009, and its still complicated procedure. I have to back up all music file even I want to add 1 (one) music files. And the Itunes will be sync all the music files (at least 2000 songs) all over again, painful but it is.

And now I have stop using Iphone or Ipod since 2009. I thought Apple's programmers had problem to do such easy task and they don't listen very well.

Thanks

Helpless

So, the turn off iCloud Library seems to work to manually sync songs I've had in my iTunes Library forever....The part that is STUPID (PLEASE SEE THIS APPLE!!!) is the fact that once you do this, it deletes all of the Apple Music songs that are stored on your phone, which means you have to turn it back on again and make sure everything is downloaded to your phone again!. God forbid I want to sync another song manually.

Sorry, I know these threads are not for complaining...I'm just hoping that someone from Apple actually looks through this stuff once in awhile as I'm pretty upset that I have to go through this nonsense to get songs on my phone..in addition to paying monthly for the Music service...really considering going back to Spotify.

Anyway, back to constructive stuff.... Turning iCloud Library OFF on the iPhone "Settings/Music/iCloud Library" and clicking "Manually Manage Music and Videos" under the iPhone summary page in iTunes allowed me to copy a playlist to my phone. Once that is done, go into your phone and turn iCloud Library back ON. One IMPORTANT NOTE: If you had any music that you downloaded from Apple Music, it will not be downloaded again. It will show up, but not be local. You'll have to copy it local again.

Really stupid!

Thank you.

pls help me why everytime i wanna click manage music manually , it said all the music will be erased?