You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
📰 Newsroom Update
Billie Eilish is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2024. Learn more >
Billie Eilish is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2024. Learn more >
YEARS ago, I uploaded all of my CDs to iTunes on my iMac. I am now on my 3rd iMac and I am sharing music with my husband. Somehow, my Music library has disappeared (only the uploaded CDs, not the purchased ones). They exist, however, on my husband's iMac. Can I download my albums back onto my phone from his iMac? Should I just sync with his Music? Can I do that?
[Re-Titled by Moderator]
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 11.7
Marsue Said:
"I have since checked my old iPhone, and it has all of the music on it! From what I understand, it is impossible to upload music from an iPhone to an iMac? Does anybody have any ideas?"
-------
Downloading iPhone Music from an iPhone or a Mac:
You need to download it, manually. As for transferring from an old iPhone to a new iPhone, that you may be an option to do through use of Quick Start: Use Quick Start to Transfer Data to a new iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
From what you've said it sounds like you were successful with option 1. Option 2 wouldn't work. An Apple Music subscription can copy what you have on your phone to your computer, but iTunes Match doesn't include that feature, although it can be used to sync the library on one computer to multiple computers and devices.
See also Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community.
tt2
I went to the Apple Store and talked to an Expert. He suggested:
1) that I erase my new iPhone (saving the eSim, of course) and use my OLD iPhone to re-populate the new one. I did that and the music appeared in the Music app! Yay!
2) Alternatively, he suggested that I use iTunes Match. He said that I turn it on in Music and that it costs $20. It is true that it will do that and sync it across all your devices. The thing that makes me nervous is that it might sync what is on my iMac across all of my devices!
now I dint know what to do.
I have since checked my old iPhone, and it has all of the music on it! From what I understand, it is impossible to upload music from an iPhone to an iMac? Does anybody have any ideas?
The only thing you need to
Can I recover my missing iTunes library on a new iMac?
