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This message seems to have generated a lot of questions over many years with no real solutions...
The iPhone “CIH iPhone 13” cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items on your Mac (additional 103.90 GB required).
I have tried many of the suggestions made in the past with no resolution. Does anyone know what the actual problem is or know of a solution?
Thanks
iPhone 13
Put everything on hold overnight and woke up this morning to find System Data on my iPhone was down to zero (or close to)! Didn't do anything other than turning phone on and off a couple of times, though had done that previously.
Synced entire 160GB music library fine, made some changes and resynced and all good.
Thanks very much for your guidance and patience!
Put everything on hold overnight and woke up this morning to find System Data on my iPhone was down to zero (or close to)! Didn't do anything other than turning phone on and off a couple of times, though had done that previously.
Synced entire 160GB music library fine, made some changes and resynced and all good.
Thanks very much for your guidance and patience!
Sometimes the iTunes/Finder sync mechanism will get confused over what content is already on a device and what is in the library, which can lead to this error even when there should be enough room. See Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod using your computer - Apple Support. Select a small number of playlists to sync rather than the whole library. After syncing once with a smaller collection you should be able to select more content up to the available space on the device.
tt2
Thank you but still get same message, even if only trying to sync one album.
Working through the size of the music on my Mac, the music on my iPhone, the free space on both and the "GB required" in the error message, the system is clearly trying to sync all the music on my Mac to the iPhone even though most of it is already on the iPhone, ie it is not trying to sync changes/new only.
Thank you very much for your help but I am getting out of my depth here!!!
Is the easiest thing to delete the Music app off my iPhone (including all data), reinstall Music and then sync with my MacBook?
Did you change the sync selections such that they also removed most existing content? See this post on erratic syncing. It may be time to nuke and pave.
tt2
That approach could work.
tt2
Worked in the sense that Music app and all music deleted but cannot sync because the "storage" that was music is now in System Data and cannot clear it from there!
Boo. In which case you'll have to go to my original suggestion. Nuke and pave. Backup the device, restore to factory settings, restore backup.
tt2
You're welcome. 🙂
tt2
iPhone Sync with Music
