Why itunes for windows delete my itunes playlist

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LMAA_FU Author

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Why itunes for windows delete my itunes playlist

Hello,

i have a playlist on ios (iphone) where i often past new songs in.

But i haven`t a chance to save the playlist.

If i change the name on iphone, on widows itunes shown the old one. I cant use windows itunes to save the newest one.

Yes, i click on the device, but windwos itunes show me old on. If i make synchronisation windows itunes take the old on from windows, delete the newer one from ios and replace it.

All the work is , because i have no option to make the Device first. First i want save the Device.

Or save the Playlist from device. But Windows Itunes fu ck ed me up. No possibility to save my playlist, to save my work. Absolutly beginner devs from Apple?

On the Iphone i havent a chance to save my playlist, too.

No direct save possibility on my i phone local files or in cloud.

Even new IOS versions and the programmer cant fix the old problems. And there so many on IOS device.

But you cant sent this problem to apple, because you can only sent problemst to payable things.

APPLE:

Let me protect my data. Let me save my playlist on windows.

And dont let wrong and old data in my Iphone. I dont need a old playlist on my phone. I dont want to make the work again and again.

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Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Jun 10, 2025 02:51 AM

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Answer 1

turingtest2

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Jun 10, 2025 10:25 AM in response to LMAA_FU

If a playlist was synced from iTunes to the phone, and then updated on the phone, those changes should sync back into iTunes at the next sync. This assumes that all works as it is supposed to, and that there haven't also been changes made in iTunes or any other reason for iTunes to decide the list in the library should overwrite the copy on device. There is seemingly no feature for conflict resolution. In principle as long as you don't turn on the feature to sync automatically on connection, and the content in your device has been synced from iTunes, then it should be possible to export a playlist that exists on the device as an XML file, then import that XML file after syncing to recreate the playlist in iTunes the way that you had it on device. Or you can try my script ImportDevicePlaylists.

tt2

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Answer 2

the fiend

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Jun 11, 2025 01:59 AM in response to LMAA_FU

In addition to turingtest2's suggestions, I suggest that you ensure that you are still using Sync and not Manually Manage. and that you have the appropriate Sync options ste. It''s not uncommon for people to say think are using Sync when they are in fact using Manually Manage.

Playlists updated on the phone are only copied back to iTunes by a Sync.

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