Sync Music library without sync all over????

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Jono2024 Author

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Sync Music library without sync all over????

Hello.

I synced my entire Music library to my iPhone 15 Pro Max and plan on using that as my "iPod" going forward. My library is pretty big ~200GB. To big for the Cloud (and expensive). The problem I am having is every time I go to sync my phone to my mac, the Music library seems to re-load all my music again, which takes a really long time. And this happens every time whether or not I change anything or not. In the sync>Music tab I was going to uncheck sync entire library, but I got a message asking if I wanted to remove all my music from the phone which I don't want. The only two options are Remove and Cancel which stops the sync.

So how do I sync my phone from the Mac and have it leave all my music in place on the phone and even just sync a few newly added CD's. Thank you. Jonathan

iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Nov 21, 2024 3:33 PM

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Answer 1

Jono2024 Author

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Nov 21, 2024 7:12 PM in response to picas

Thank you for responding picas! I will try this the next time I add more music to my Mac. Do you know if you have to do a “Sync” after you use this method? I think if after pressing Sync you had the following options: 1) Update music with new music since last Sync. 2) Leave music files in place. 3) Replace entire library using Mac music files. Something like that. With option 1, syncing should take less than a minute to add only new stuff.

One other thing to note, when choosing to sync a selection of artists, there should be a way to add artists to that at next sync without syncing everything. Again, long time for GB of music. Thanks again. I look forward to trying the drag to phone in music app method. Maybe Apple is working on this.

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picas

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Nov 21, 2024 9:04 PM in response to Jono2024

No need to sync although you might have to choose Manually manage music etc, and click on apply as in below screenshot.

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Answer 3

picas

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Nov 21, 2024 5:13 PM in response to Jono2024

Within the Music app on your Mac (and with the iPhone connected) drag the music onto the iPhone in the sidebar.

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