Q: How to transfer my apple music songs from my iPhone 6 onto my new Macbook Pro
Hey guys, new user here and i was just wondering why not all of my songs transferred onto my new macbook pro. Out of the around 1000 songs i have only 200 copied over. Those seem to be the purchases i've made on iTunes but all my cds and apple music purchases didn't transfer over. The kicker is that when i first started the transfer process, all songs did show up but those 800 other songs were greyed out, but the next day i opened up iTunes on my computer they were gone. Any help is appreciated thank you
MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 8.4.1
Posted on Aug 26, 2015 3:05 PM
Community Specialists
Hello Erik,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities and congratulations on your new MacBook Pro. I understand that you are trying to get some music that is on your iPhone on to your computer. That is something that I can help you out with.
The first thing I want to point out is that when you try to transfer items that have been downloaded from the App or iTunes Store's, that content is the only content that moves over. This would be the reason why only the purchased content from iTunes was downloaded. Take a look at the first article for more details about transferring purchases.
Redownload or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad or iPod to a computer
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201267
If you are using Apple Music and have iCloud Music Library enabled on your iPhone, then I would recommend checking is the iCloud Music Library settings in iTunes. With that enabled, you will be able to keep your library in sync without plugging in your iPhone to your computer all the time. Check out the second article for the steps to make sure iCloud Music Library is enabled.
Check your Apple Music library settings
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204926
The final suggestion would be to copy the music from your old computer to your new Mac. If you still have access to it, you can use the steps outlined in the third article to copy all the content over with ease with an external hard drive.
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204318
Have a great day
Posted on Aug 28, 2015 6:40 AM