How to get music off of iPhone?

[Rob.G]

I hope this is the best place to post this...

How do I copy the music off of my iPhone? I have a 15 Pro Max and I cannot get the music to even appear so that I can access it from either my Mac or my Windows laptop.

If I plug into the Mac, I get the icon in the left side of the finder, so click that, then choose Music in the top horizontal menu, and I get the usual page I've seen before where you can choose to sync music, etc. It was unchecked, so I checked it. BTW there is NO music on my Mac right now, so I want to download everything off of my iPhone to have local copies of it.

Well, I choose to sync everything, and click Apply (or Sync, whatever it was) and it goes through some process that doesn't take very long. And... nothing. Nothing appears on my Mac, and in fact none of my music appears in the list. I doublechecked my phone and yes the music is still there. But it won't appear in the list on my Mac.

Over on Windows.. if I plug a USB cord into it, I can open up an "iPhone Drive" and the only thing listed is a DCF file called Internal Storage. I can't get to anything in it.

It seems like Apple is determined to prevent me from accessing my own music. Help please?

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I believe- but don't know for sure- that the issue is that the system is not designed to go from phone to Mac, only the other way... UNLESS the music is all sourced from Apple which then allows one to log into iCloud/iTunes (whatever they call it now) and then the music purchases put directly on the phone download to the Mac too (not from the phone but from the iTunes Store/Apple Music store/etc).

However, there are abundant tutorials on many ways to acocomplish this with step-by-step instructions. Just do a search like Import Music from iPhone to New Mac

One offers that the key step in Apple Music app on Mac is to use Account, Authorize this Computer, Authorize... sign in with SAME AppleID you use on that iPhone, connect iPhone with USB cable, and then use an option in File (menu), that was Devices, Transfer Purchases from iPhone but may be called something else now. Possibly via the "Import..." option. However, I believe that is only going to work for music purchased from iTunes and not necessarily all music on iPhone. Easy enough to try and find out first hand.

I believe to transfer ALL means buying somebody's app able to get around limitations probably still in place to prevent this. Why would they do this? I believe to prevent friends from hooking friends iPhones to their Macs and essentially quickly pirating all music on the friends phone. Do that as little as a few times with the right combination of friends and you'll have ALL music.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

You’d need a 3rd party app. Apple doesn’t allow music to be transferred from iOS, just to it.