arisastrosubroto
Level 1 (7 points)
Apple Music

Q: Transferring  Apple Music's songs from iPhone to iTunes

Hi everyone,

 

Most of my songs are downloaded straight from Apple Music to my iPhone. I believe my iPhone and my PC is connected somehow through the same Apple ID.

Every time I want to sync my songs from iPhone to iTunes on my PC, my PC already knew that I have downloaded the music and it downloads the music one more time to the iTunes -- wasting the time and internet plan -- instead of copying the music from my iPhone.

 

Is there any way to simply transfer the downloaded music from my iPhone straight to my PC / iTunes? Logically speaking the music is already there in my phone so the only thing that's needed is just to copy it, no need to download it one more time.

 

Thanks!

 

P.S. I use iPhone 6 (iOS 9.3.2) and Windows 10 with the latest iTunes (12.4.1)

iPhone 6, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jun 21, 2016 9:44 PM

by tim_135,Solvedanswer
tim_135 tim_135
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A:

Hi arisastrosubroto,

 

Thanks for coming to us in the Apple Support Communities for support. I know it's important to have access to your music across all of your devices, so I'm happy to help provide some direction for you to get this working again.

 

If the music you are trying to transfer was purchased from the iTunes Store, then you can use the information here to transfer those purchases to iTunes:

 

Redownload or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer

 

If this music was not purchased from iTunes, but simply added to your library from Apple Music, then iTunes is working as intended and will instead simply download those same items directly in iTunes.

 

I hope this helps clarify things a bit more. Cheers!

Posted on Jun 27, 2016 6:30 PM

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  • by tim_135,Solvedanswer

    tim_135 tim_135 Jun 27, 2016 6:30 PM in response to arisastrosubroto
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    Jun 27, 2016 6:30 PM in response to arisastrosubroto

    Hi arisastrosubroto,

     

    Thanks for coming to us in the Apple Support Communities for support. I know it's important to have access to your music across all of your devices, so I'm happy to help provide some direction for you to get this working again.

     

    If the music you are trying to transfer was purchased from the iTunes Store, then you can use the information here to transfer those purchases to iTunes:

     

    Redownload or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer

     

    If this music was not purchased from iTunes, but simply added to your library from Apple Music, then iTunes is working as intended and will instead simply download those same items directly in iTunes.

     

    I hope this helps clarify things a bit more. Cheers!

  • by arisastrosubroto,

    arisastrosubroto arisastrosubroto Jun 27, 2016 6:29 PM in response to tim_135
    Level 1 (7 points)
    Apple Music
    Jun 27, 2016 6:29 PM in response to tim_135

    Thank you Tim for you answer. I found it very helpful.

    So there's no way transferring music from iPhone to iTunes if the music is downloaded from Apple Music...

     

    Thanks anyway mate! Have a good day!