Music from computer library not fully syncing to device? No error messages. All software updated. Any tips?
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Music not syncing fully?
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Which phone and firmware version? I have a 15 Pro Max and couldn't get my music to sync at all onto my phone. I just had the music that was in the cloud. I'm not sure what happened, but it eventually worked after many attempts and I finally got my music synced locally onto the phone.
BTW, I don't subscribe to Apple Music.
15 Pro / latest software. Music on MacBook to iPhone. Not Cloud music and no Apple Music subscription.
Apple was unable to resolve and did not seem to have many reports of syncing issues. I would recommend reporting syncing issues to Apple.
I found a glitch where iPhone was not downloading smart playlist songs which had album-applied rating to all songs rather than individually-applied rating despite being on playlist. Issue occurs on iPhone 15 Pro, but not on iPod.
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I think I'm having a similar problem. I set up my new 15 Pro Max this weekend. I have thousands of songs on my iPhone. When I set up the new phone and it copied stuff from the old, the process was over quickly, and I don't think it's possible that it could have copied all of the music from the old phone to the new. And, some albums are missing bunches of songs. Also, I changed the setting to stop down-sampling music to 256 ACC, and when I synced the phone again, it did not re-download the songs in their full resolution format.
(Both the phone and computer are running the current iOS/OS.)
(Also, when I connect the phone to my computer, it keeps swtiching to back up my phone to the cloud. I don't want my stuff on the cloud, and check the box to backup to my computer, but it keeps changing back)
Any ideas?
(Both the phone and computer are running the current iOS/OS.)
(Also, when I connect the phone to my computer, it keeps swtiching to back up my phone to the cloud. I don't want my stuff on the cloud, and check the box to backup to my computer, but it keeps changing back)
Any ideas?