How Do I Stop iTunes syncing my iPhone automatically?

I have owned an iPhone 5 for a little shy of two years now.  I love it but it has one irritating feature that I can't seem to get rid of.  When I had an iPod years ago one of the things I liked about it was the simple drag and drop method of loading songs onto the phone but that's never been possible with this iPhone.  Whenever I plug it into the computer it starts removing songs I want on it and adding songs I don't want.  I have been through iTunes' settings and as far as I can see I've set syncing to be manual and still it does this.  Increasingly I find myself avoiding adding new content to my phone because of how awkward the process is.
To be clear, I want:
1) When I plug the iPhone into the computer I want NOTHING to happen unless I tell iTunes to do it.  No music to be synced, backed up, deleted or anything.  I simply want iTunes to detect the phone and be ready for my instructions about what should be added or deleted.
2) To be able to drag and drop the music I want from my library to the iPhone.
I am using:
iPhone 5 with ios 8.2
iTunes 12.1.1
I have already:
Used "Device Preferences" to select "Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPhones from syncing automatically"

Hi,
I'm not quite sure what you mean.  My iphone is connected to my home wifi, it doesn't change whats on the phone unless I plug it directly into my laptop though.
I've just had a look at the setting you mentioned and its not currently set up to do the wifi syncing.  It says "to enable wifi syncing with itunes connect to itunes using a cable and click sync with this iphone over wifi"  Obviously since I want things much less automatic rather than more I won't be switching that feature on.

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