Q: My phone is connected to an iTunes that has been deleted. How can I save the songs onto my computer without having them deleted al ... more
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Jun 17, 2016 10:36 AMby Alwayswantingtohelp1,Hello Scott L C,
From what I understand you want to move music you have on your iPhone to your computer. I understand wanting to keep your music. If the music was purchased from the iTunes Store you can transfer your purchases to your computer using the steps in this article:
Redownload or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer
If the music is from CD's or another source, you would need to upload the CD's to your computer or download the music to the computer from the other source again.
Best Regards.
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Jun 18, 2016 3:37 PMby Limnos,Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself independently backed up against loss. To use a device with a different setup you transfer the old library from a computer or a backup directly to the new setup, not the device to the library. Media syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer from a device. The exception is iTunes Store media purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
Re-download or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad or iPod to a computer - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201267 - "This feature works only for content bought from the iTunes Store." As of iOS9 it no longer does apps which now must be re-downloaded directly from the Store.
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. See this document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991 Even this method may not fully recover what you had in the library originally. For example if in order to save space when syncing you had converted music files to a lower bitrate, or photos to a lower resolution, it is those lower quality files you will recover.
If you subscribe to Apple Music, tracks which are not part of content you have purchased or uploaded cannot be transferred and have to be downloaded directly from iCloud.
