For those of you who are curious, or, like me, have been frustrated by the inability to sync music to your iPhone while having an Apple Music subscription, I'm here to tell you that you can do this! There are some caveats, though. 1. In order to sync music from iTunes to your iPhone while having an Apple Music subscription, you need to turn off iCloud Music Library each and every time before you sync music, then turn it back on once iTunes is closed and your iPhone has been unplugged. The same goes for iCloud Music library on your Windows or Mac computer. This is a pain, but necessary. 2. Your downloaded music from Apple Music will be deleted from your phone each time you re-sync. Note that downloaded music is not the stuff you've just added to your library--it's the music you've actually downloaded to your phone with Apple Music. You can get the music back, of course, but it's something of which to be aware before proceeding.
Anyhow, What you have to do in order to sync music from iTunes to your phone is turn off iCloud Music Library on both your computer and phone, then sync as normal, just like you did before the introduction of Apple Music. After your sync has completed and you've safely disconnected your phone from the computer, go back into your music settings on your phone and turn iCloud Music Library back on. You'll get a popup asking you if you'd like to keep or delete (I think the other button is labeled delete) the music that's already on your phone. Anyhow, you want to press the "Keep" button. Your music from iTunes and music that's in your iCloud Music Library will merge, and you can now listen to both types of music. When you want to sync different music to your phone, you need to perform these same steps again. It's a total hassle, but it does work. I chose to have iCloud Music Library turned off on my computer, because I don't want to be inundated by Apple Music content when dealing with my iTunes library. I don't need it to be there. After all, I don't use iTunes as a media player at all--it's just a way for me to get my music and TV shows (in mp3) into my iPhone's Music app. I hope these instructions prove useful to some of those on this list. I'm very much looking forward to being able to manage the content that goes on my phone from iTunes by myself once more, instead of having to get sighted help to do so, or worse, have to guess and pray that I checked the right checkboxes. Thanks, Ari -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
