Playlists and music are not syncing (can't add any music to my iPhone now)

Just tried something on a whim and it actually worked - YMMV. On my Mac in iTunes, I disabled iCloud Music Library, waited a moment, then re-enabled. The playlists that were previously missing from my iPhone appeared almost immediately.

Looks like a very annoying bug to me.

How do I disable iCloud Music Library???

Help!

I actually wrote another post--but it was a question to you (or others): How do I disable iCloud Music Library??

Thanks!

In iTunes on Mac, open Preferences, then on the General tab, beneath your Library name, uncheck 'iCloud Music Library'.

I don't find iCloud Music Library anywhere to uncheck. This is what I see, under General:

Library Name: Owner's Library

Then possibilities to check (and they are all checked):

Show Apple Music

Views: Use custom colors for open albums, movies

Show list checkboxes

Now what??

Thanks!

Are you running iTunes 12.2? And do you have iCloud enabled and signed in on the Mac itself (System Preferences > iCloud)?

I do have iTunes 12.2. But I'm using a PC, not a Mac. I can't find "System Preferences" anywhere. I wonder if I now need to go into the Apple Store Genius Bar??!! Thanks for trying to help me solve this annoying problem!

Sorry I can't be much help with a PC... I would assume that iCloud Music Library is available across devices, but I could be wrong. Maybe you need the iCloud for Windows application installed on your PC? Hopefully there are some Windows users in the thread that can help out?

Does this article help:

Check your Apple Music library settings - Apple Support

Not really, you see it seems to have only 2 options.

Use Apple Music and access all your music solely in the cloud (thus incurring downloads of data everywhere you go for any songs you listen to) and manage all your music in the cloud.

Just use the music on your device (ie turn off Cloud Sync). This will allow you to utilise your playlists and music locally on your device, but you will still be able to listen to albums and singles via Apple Music. Just not create playlists.

An option I believe most would have expected is to share playlists across devices, but have the device access music on the device and only Apple Music when the song is not available on that device. This approach would seem logical to most and would certainly start to offer a superior service to Spotify. One of the reasons I (and most people I know) limit their spotify usage is because it is constantly downloading. Try that on a road trip somewhere and you will use most of your data by the end of the first day.

This is awesome! I've been searching for an answer for forever!!!!!

Hi,

Have had the same problems as you, i managed to fix it.

If you go to your ios device and into Settings -> Music than go and switch of sync to icloud music library, it should sync however you have your music layed out on your mac and should sync everything currently.

This is the issue, if you're using iTunes music subscription service it defaults to cloud based sourcing and takes away the traditional way of syncing selected folders. If you want the old way back you must disable cloud based by going to settings > music > and toggle off the iTunes Cloud Music option.

Turning off iCloud sync does the trick.

But what if I still want to use Apple Music on my iPhone ?

Is it true that when iCloud sync is on and I chose to play random tunes, it will only play those from my Apple Music selection ? Not the manually added ones.

This is how it should work. Both Mac and iPhone have iCloud music turned on. You make a new playlist on the Mac. Then you open the music app on the phone. The new playlist is there. That doesn't seem too hard, but Apple has managed to screw this up. I was able to get the playlist to show up on my phone by doing a sync and waiting about 15 minutes. Turning iCloud music off and then on again on the phone is a very impractical solution because my library has thousands of songs and that takes a long time.

I am still waiting for a solution of how to remove music from the phone to make more space. I have the setting checked to sync only checked songs. I should be able to uncheck songs on the Mac and then do a sync to remove those songs from the phone. But it doesn't work.