Music from Laptop Not Showing up in iPhone

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Music from Laptop Not Showing up in iPhone

Hi, there! I have a mid-2015 MacBook Pro Retina, running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D47) and a 6S Plus iPhone that's running iOS 11.2.5 (15D60).

I have some albums in iTunes on my laptop that I'd like to listen to from the cloud via my iPhone. However, I am not seeing any settings saying "Download from iCloud" or anything along those lines. Yes, I'm signed into iTunes on both devices.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 11.2.5

Posted on Feb 18, 2018 11:17 AM

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Answer 1

zfJames

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Feb 18, 2018 1:39 PM in response to ellelament

Well, if they are in iTunes on your laptop, then you should be able to sync your iPhone with your iTunes on your laptop. Plug your iPhone in and click the little 'phone' icon (it's pretty small) in the upper left-hand corner of your iTunes window (your computer's iTunes) and then go to Music and make sure that Sync Music and 'Entire Music Library' are checked.

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ellelament Author

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Feb 18, 2018 1:56 PM in response to zfJames

So am I! I was confused because I had an album synced up from iTunes before without connecting my phone to my laptop. Just realized it's because I was using a trial of Apple Music. Guess they want you to pay up for everything to automatically sync 😐

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zfJames

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Feb 18, 2018 11:38 AM in response to ellelament

You'll need to go to the iTunes Store on your iPhone, click 'More' and then tap 'Purchased.' Make sure you are signed into iCloud on your iPhone as well as on your computer! Hope that helps! 🙂

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ellelament Author

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Feb 18, 2018 11:39 AM in response to zfJames

Thanks for the help, James, but that didn't seem to do it 😟

This isn't music I've purchased, it's music I've downloaded elsewhere. I attempted to add it to my iCloud drive in Finder, but that didn't seem to work :/

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ellelament Author

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Feb 18, 2018 1:53 PM in response to zfJames

OMG, hahaha! I feel stupid now. Thank you so much! That's all I had to do - connect my phone to my laptop. I am so used to doing everything over wireless now that it didn't even occur to me, HAHAHA.

Thank you!!! <3

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