Apple Music (iPhone) - Playlists/Music not syncing

So, I made a playlist on my phone, some songs 'available off line' some not. Initially it synced via cloud and showed up on iTunes, but have deleted some tracks and added others and the changes haven't transferred to playlist in tunes - how do i make it?

I had the same issue whereby I added song to iTunes on my Mac but it doesn't sync up with the iPhone 5S Apple Music. I had to click on the "3-dots" on my playlist and select "Download". Then it start syncing it.

However, the bigger problem is that if open that Playlist in the iPhone and tried to add another song, Apple Music will show "added" but nothing was added... weird.

Same issue for me. I called Apple Support and fixed it.

1. Disconnect phone from laptop.

2. Under Phone Settings > Music. Turn OFF iCloud Music Library. Close Settings and reopen to confirm the changed setting saved. If not (it didn't for me), power down the phone. Then repeat and the setting should save.

3. Connect Phone to laptop and launch iTunes.

4. Go to Phone on iTunes and then Music. You should see the old iTunes Music screen which allows you to select playlists, etc to sync.

5. Sync phone

6. Check on Apple Music > My Music > Playlists. Old playlists should be accessible.

Alex! Thank you so much. My 12-hour road trip tomorrow was about to suck so bad...:) Thanks for sharing the solution.

glad to help. A 12-hour road trip ***** any way you count it, but glad you'll be able to sing along now during it 😉.

Thank you. Problem finally fixed!!!

Thank you and bless you! Problem resolved!!!

Alex, thanks for your solution, which helped me hugely - but there was also one other important thing to remember, which is that once you have completed point 6 of your list, you then should check the status of the toggle and selection as in OmarN's post above (this is found by hitting the red heading half way down the screen). On my phone, when in 'Playlists' view, the tick had been set against 'Apple Music Playlists', so only that playlist was showing, and because the toggle was also in the wrong position, no music was showing in that playlist. All I had to do was to move the tick to 'All Playlists', and change the toggle, and suddenly, all the playlists were there, with all my music. Shame that it took most of a day to realise....Finally, any Apple Music playlists will only show music when offline (ie without internet) if the tracks have been downloaded to the phone. Jonathan

the solution doesn't work for me, I don't even do playlists I want my albums on the iPhone - the only thing in my playlist seems to be recently played songs and ONLY those bought on iTunes and I can't select or deselect anything.

I am in the same boat as "majoho." At first, after downloading the new, "Improved" version of iTunes (12.2.1.16), all I noticed was that SOME of My Music, almost completely composed of CDs owned by me that had been ripped into iTunes, was not showing. After trying a number of things, I did a complete restore of the phone overnight, and now nothing but an album purchased through the iTunes Store shows up. And none of the solutions given in this thread have made any difference.

NB: The phone seems fine otherwise, since the complete restore reloaded all my apps and everything else (contacts, etc.) of relevance. Just no music.....

Any ideas would be appreciated.

OK, I know, I'm replying to my own post, but I think I found the answer to the problem (see previous post for description). In the new version of iTunes (12.2.1.16), there is a menu bar to the left. On the top is "Settings," followed by a number of selections. Below that is "On my device," followed by another list of selections.

In the top list (under "Settings") is the selection "Music," and clicking on this will produce a screen giving several choices for "Sync Music." On my newly installed iTunes, the relevant selections ("Entire Music Library" and "Selected artists, playlists, albums, and genres") were both turned OFF. Once I clicked the button for "Entire Music Library" my music library immediately started to sync.

NB: My Music Library was successfully re-synced, BUT. I am right back at the situation that brought me here in the first place. After I updated to iTunes 12.2.1.16, I noticed that several of my albums that are in my Music Library on my MacBook Pro do not appear on my iPhone 6 (which is 64 GB and has 25 G of open space). That is still the case, still looking for an answer. I suspect the answer lies in the way that "improvements" in the iTunes database record and display the Music Library, but I can't identify a specific problem.

Then what's the point of subscribing to Apple Music and iCloud Music Library? So we can lose our playlists that have taken years to create?

Starting with iTunes 10, Apple has really messed up the database, IMHO. What the alternatives are is less clear. All I can think of is finding workarounds on forums like this.

Thank you for this!!!!

I followed your directions and finally found the solution to the problem that had me and my tech husband stumped. Didn't understand where all my music and playlists went. I was stressing, because I am a Zumba instructor and my playlists wouldn't change. You are a life-saver!

Had the same problem but OmarN provided the answer!! Thanks! 🙂✅