I am missing playlists on my iPhone

I can see all my playlists in iTunes, but they did not sync to my phone. Also, since installing iMatch, I am missing songs. Does anyone know how to sync my library on my iPhone the way I have it in iTunes?

iTunes Match does not handle playlists well. You can turn off iTunes Match on your iPhone and synchronise in the original way - this will give you the playlists from the iTunes client.

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Missing playlists from my iPhone?

I seem to remember a time when I had automatic playlists on my phone such as 'top rated', 'top 25 most played', 'recently purchased' etc, which I liked and found useful. The problem is they seem to have suddenly disappeared and I don't know why. I can't find them anywhere. Can anyone help?

I had the same problem but only on my iphone 4. I had songs which showed on my iphone playlists on my mac but were not on my iphone. My solution was to delete the playlist from my iphone and also delete the songs from the artists in the music section of the iphone. Don't know why but this doesn't seem to work by only deleting the playlist.
Create a brand new smart playlist from the music library on your computer and drag this to your iphone icon.
This solved my problem . Hope it helps.

The new iTunes has totally destroyed all of the playlists on my iPhone and I need help.

After updating to the new iTunes I lost songs, I lost playlists and I lost control over my music library
in the iPhone. I am annoyed and frustrated
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To ease use of the new iTunes these tips will revert it back to the iTunes 10 look and feel
View > Show Sidebar
View > Show Status Bar
Click on Black arrow in the search box and untick Search Entire Library
Your playlists should show up in the Left Hand panel beneath Devices
If you find you are still missing playlists off your computer itunes then
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967
May help

Only Smart Playlists match between iPhone and iTunes for songs purchased on iPhone

I purchase an album on my iPhone. The music shows up on my iPhone in its Purchased playlist. I start my computer and the music automatically downloads on my computer and is placed into the Purchased playlist under the iTunes Store on the left panel in iTunes on my computer. I sync the phone to iTunes in which I have this Purchased playlist selected to sync with my iPhone. And here's the rub:
From then on, when I plug in my iPhone to sync, it shows up as a device on the left panel of iTunes. You click on it to show the folders below and, when you click on the phone's Purchased playlist on the computer (left panel under devices), it shows all the new songs I just purchased there in the purchased playlist. But when you open the actual playlist on the iPhone, some of the songs from the new album are missing from the Playlist on the iPhone. Again, ALL of the songs still show on the playlist in iTunes and ALL of the songs STILL show on the playlist in iTunes that is under the device iPhone listing in the left panel of iTunes. So...even iTunes thinks that ALL the songs are still in the Purchased playlist on the iPhone, but when you open the iPhone, some of the songs from the playlist are missing.
I've even tried creating new playlists with different names and dropping all of the new album songs into this different new playlist and syncing this new playlist to the iPhone. Even then, the same songs are STILL missing on the new synced playlist on the iPhone.
There is only way that I can make all the songs show up on an iTunes playlist and on the same iPhone playlist. This only happens if I create and use a Smart Playlist to specifically select those songs. A Smart playlist always shows the correct songs in both iTunes and the iPhone. But, again ONLY if it's a Smart Playlist. If I make any regular playlist and drop the songs into it in iTunes, the playlist shows up on my iPhone but is missing some of the songs.
One other thing...I have no idea how this happens or what is causing it. Sometimes, one or two of the missing songs will show up hours or days later. Not sure if it's because I played them on my phone or on my computer iTunes and that caused some flag to trip that then allowed them to show up in the playlist from which they were missing.
Don't tell me to delete all music and resync all music or to manually manage my songs or to restore my phone. I've done that so many times and it does not work. I've tried unchecking the songs and rechecking the songs between syncs. I've tried deleting the songs from all devices and redownloading. Nothing works. The only way I've been able to fix this is the delete all content from my phone and do a complete restore and NOT restore from my previous backup (treat my iPhone like a new phone with no backup available). With 4000 songs and 100+ apps and podcasts, etc...that is WAY too cumbersome and takes to long to do everytime I purchase a song on my iPhone.
Again, this is NO ISSUE with a Smart Playlist...but only a Smart Playlist. The work around right now is that I have a Smart Playlist that always shows the last 200 songs recently purchased. That playlist is always accurate on both iTunes and the iPhone.

I checked again last night, and now iTunes matched the phone settings, saying zero space was available. I had nearly 20 gigs of "Other" data :/
So I erased all settings/data on the iPhone and restored from an iCloud backup from last week, and now everything seems fine, with over 15 GB of available space.

Playlists vanished off iPhone and iPad

I have had iTunes match since it came out and it's been working well since iOS 6 came out. Today I went to play a playlist on my iPhone and found there were no playlists on my iPhone. I checked my iPad and the playlists were there initialilly but when it synced with iTunes Match the playlists disappeared. I checked iTunes and the playlists are still there so I restarted my iPhone and killed the music app on my iPad. That got some of the playlists to sync to both of them. I have a bunch of smart playlists and all of them show up on my iPad, but only a few on my iPhone.
How can I get all my playlists to sync again?

I noticed that newly created playlists on my PC would sync to my iPhone, but not my iPad. New lists on my iPad would sync to the iPhone and PC, but not back. New playlists on my iPhone would sync to PC only.
At this point I decided the cloud sync was screwed up, so I turned of iTunes match on both my iPad and iPhone. I waited for the playlists to disappear and then turned it back on. That got all the playlists synced up. Some of them are missing album art though.

Why can't I delete a playlist from my iPhone without it being deleted on my kids iMac?

I consolidated music on my Macbook pro with my family iMac using iTunes Match. What I can't understand is that I can't "turn off" certain playlists. When I deleted some of my daughters' playlists from my iPhone, it removed the playlist from the iMac. Am I missing something? I had over 100 playlists listed, many of which I will never use. I can't imagine that Match isn't more versitile.

Now that you mention it, my parents don't need to see my playlists, either. Hadn't thought of that.
I accidently stumbled on an "ad-hoc" workaround that helped me. The downside is that it only works with smart playlists so it may or may not work for you. But here it is anyway:
Smart playlists will not be uploaded to the cloud if they refeence another playlist on the cloud. So I created a "catch-all" smart playlist and added a reference to that in all the smart playlists I don't want to share.
I also noticed that playlists with more than just music are not uploaded. You could add a short video or something to the playlists that are only for the iMac. This obviously won't work if your daughter needs them on her iDevice.
I know these aren't good solutions, but I hope they help someone.
Cheers,

I created a playlist on my iphone and it created multiple empty playlist

Does anyboydy have the same problem?
I created a playlist on my Iphone and suddently thousands of empty playlist with identifcal name appeared everywhere.
Since then, my music on my iphone freezes.
I tried to remove with automator on my computer, but when I refresh the Itune match, they reappear..

If your Mac is signed into your account with Documents & Data syncing checked in System Preferences>iCloud, it should have received a copy on your Mac.
Open Finder and navigate to "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~Pages/Documents" (without the quotes) from the Go>Go to Folder Menu. If this folder exists on your hard drive, launch Time Machine and go back to an earlier point in time to see if your missing document appears. If it does, restore the most recent version available.

HT1386 I cannot sync other playlists to my iPhone 5S from iTunes, each time I attempt to add playlists they do not show up. How can I rectify this?

Trying to sync playlists to my iPhone 5S does not work. I click on the playlist(s) and click sync, after the sync is finished there are not on my phone. How can this be rectified?

Hi,
You cannot manually manage music with match turned on on your iOS device. If you want to manage music manually, you will need to turn off match on your iPhone.
Jim

After iOS 8 upgrade, all my playlists on my iPhone 5 got wiped

Hi,
After upgrading to iOS 8, my playlists on my iPhone 5 got wiped. I backed up my iPhone before upgrading. On iTunes, I click on the "phone" tab on the upper right corner and check my playlist that's "On this phone" and everything is there. I tried syncing my phone to no avail. How do I recover my playlists? I have an extensive music collection and this will take me weeks to redo this manually. Please help!!!
Thanks.

I had the same problem, but 24 hours after the upgrade. I have tried restoring from my ITunes backup from before the upgrade, to no avail. I also bought a 3rd party software which can read my backup, and I see all the text messages there, but when I restore it with that software, they still don't appear on the phone. Very strange.

Voice memo playlist not on iphone

my iPhone 6 plus has voice memos that i recorded on it. they are also in iTunes under the voice memo playlist.
however, there is no voice memo playlist on my iPhone. i selected it in the syncing section in iTunes, but nothing. the voice memos are in the playlist, but nothing i do moves the playlist to my iPhone. which means i can only listen to the voice memos from the voice memos app- and that means that if i want to listen to them i cannot leave the vice memo app. if the voice memo playlist worked, then i could then i could listen to them in the music app and do other things on my iPhone.
any help?
i have osx 10.10.2 and ios 8.1.2

i cannot add the voice memos to my iPad air either. when i click on iPad in iTunes and go to the voice memos bit at the bottom in 'on my device' they are greyed out and not syncing onto my iPad air. this used to work with my older iPhones and iPads.

I need to transfer playlists from my old iphone into itunes so that I can then add them to my new iphone 6. However, none of the playlists on my iphone appear when I connect to my macbook. I have read other threads but have not found answer. help!

I am a group exercise instructor and rely heavily on my playlists. My old phone is an iphone 4s and I just bought an Iphone 6. I also have a macbook where I keep my itunes account, but I create all my playlists on my phone. I need to transfer those playlists from my old iphone into itunes in my computer so that I can then add them to my new iphone 6. However, none of the playlists on my iphone appear when I connect to my macbook. I have read other threads where the suggestion was to attach the old phone to itunes, find the phone in itunes and click the little arrow to the left to show the playlists. Then right click on the playlist and export it, saving it to the desktop, to then import it into itunes. However, in my case, the playlists do not show up when the phone is connected to itunes. I have clicked on the little arrow and all I get is "music", "purchased", etc., but none of my playlists. I'm sure some years back I probably deleted something in my itunes library and now none of my playlists show. Please help me. I would hate to have to recreate all of my playlists. Thank you!

I know it sounds weird, and that is the reason I posted my question. Because my case is not like all the ones I've found online and it's confusing. I added a screen capture of my itunes with my old iphone (the one that houses my playlists) connected to it.
My playlists "ARE" in my iphone 4s. They are still there even though they do not show up when I plug in to itunes in my computer.
When connecting my phone to itunes on my macbook, the playlists do not appear anywhere in itunes. I have found my connected iphone icon, I have clicked on the arrow next to it and it does pull up the standard lists that come with the iphone/itunes: Music, Movies, TV shows, books. That's it! below that is "Genius" and below "Geniuns" is "PLAYLISTS" but the only playlist of mine that shows there is one that I created several years back titled "90's music" and that one I created it on my computer, not my phone. Under "90's music" there are also other standard playlists that itunes automatically adds.
Does anyone else have this issue or know how to get around this. I am starting to think that I am going to have to recreate these lists on my computer

How to not have songs duplicates in app remote? I have playlists for my iphone and playlists for my pc. All songs of my iphone are also on my mac. When i use the remote app, it plays everything in double.

Dear all,
I am using itunes to control all my music and i like to use my iphone, or my ipad to control my music with the remote app.
But i have a problem: all the music i have in my iphone count as double play.
To explain everything since the beginning, i personally don't like and don't trust at all the music sync capability of itunes.
So i have my music on my pc, and i load every type of music as a single playlist (ex a Pop-Rock folder, with all artists folders and so on, makes me a Pop-Rock playlist).
For my iphone, i created a iphone music folder, with the same classification.
It means that i don't have all my Pop-Rock music, only a selection. But of course the selected music appears also in my complete music collection.
So in itunes i created a folder playlist named iphone music, with inside one playlist by type of music (exemple : Pop-Rock, which contains some files of my main Pop-Rock collection).
So i do have duplicates in my hard drive. But when i selected the playlists to be shared on home sharing in itunes, i selected only the main playlists, not my iphone playlists! But still, when i look for ACDC artist for example, i should see only what i have on my pc, not what i have also on my iphone.
The result is if i play an album for example Back In Black (i have it full on my hard drive, and full on my iphone too), then every song is displayed in remote app in double, and also played in double:
Here is how it is displayed:
Song 1
Song 1
Song 2
Song 2
So the remote app plays Song 1 one time, then Song 1 (the second Song 1) one time and continues like this to Song 2 etc...
I guess that if i put my selection of songs on my ipad, i will then have everything in triple....
It is very annoying. Is there a way for me to change that? Or for an update to be made (based on ID3 Tag) to not play everything twice or more? It would have an ID3 Tag No Double toggle button.
I don't want to select from my main music to send elements to my iphone as doing that i lost a lot of music multiple times. This way of doing is not safe at all (at least for me).
What is possible to do? Is there room for improvement here (i believe so). Is there a way for me to avoir this very annoying effect?
I would really like to put my music to my iPad2 also, but after i'll have triple play....
Thank you for your help.

Nobody knows? Not even administrators?
Please it would be really nice to have help on that to take all the benefit of the remote app.
Thank you very much in advance.

I have smart playlists on my iphone that i never created and when i connect to itunes and go to "on my phone" they are not listed there but they are definately on my phone. How do i get rid of them?

I have smart playlists on my iphone that i never created, a couple of them are duplicated and I cant figure out how to delete them. When i connect my phone to pc using Itunes these "Ghost" playlists do not even show up when I click "on my phone". These lists are there and they do have songs and work, I just want to get rid of them and I dont know how. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay. Try checking "manually manage music and videos", and then click the flippy triangle next to your device. Then select the items you want to delete and just press Delete on your keyboard.
Uncheck when you're done.

I can't access my new playlist on my iPhone 4s when using iTunes Match

I recently spent 5 hours combing through my entire digital music collection to compile a playlist of all the songs I want to hear right now. It is 696 songs and 1.7 days long. Both my iTunes on my computer and my iPhone 4s have the latest version of the available software. I cannot see or listen to my new playlist on my iPhone. I have done the following (with no success):
1) I have updated iTunes Match.
2) I have powered off and powered on my iPhone
3) I have disable and re-enabled Match on my iPhone.
4) I have disable Match on my iPhone, connected my iPhone to my computer via a USB cord, transfered my playlist that way, then re-enabled Match on my iPhone. Still, I do not have access to my playlist. While this did have the desired the affect of putting the playlist on my iPhone, I then could not download the songs that were in the playlist onto my iPhone without Match or performing the laborous task of transfering each song individually via the USB cord. Not to mention the fact that I play for Match and expect it to work.
5) I have disabled Match on my iPhone, powered off and powered on my iPhone. Then, I re-enabled Match on my iPhone.
None of these actions have resulted in the desired occurance. I have read through the community and when I find someone who said they have fixed the problem, the person either has a minimal grasp of the English language and I do not understand that person or I have already completed the action that the person recommends.
I feel as though, since I pay for this service, that iTunes, i.e. Apple, should address my problem directly, rather than rely on the support of a community of people who are up the same creek, lacking a tool for forward momentum.
I somewhat feel as though I, and all others in a like-situation, should receive a refund for Match or, at the very least, some sort of compensation for time during which it has caused problems.
Additionally, I refuse to ever purchase an apple product again. They are not the company of quality that they used to be and we are all now just paying top dollar for an subpar product.

Additionally, when trouble shooting, and you disable iTunes Match on an iOS device you cannot simply re-enable it immediately. You must launch the Music app and let the content clear out before re-enabling the service.

How do you transfer songs/playlist to an iphone on itunes 11 in windows 8

I downloaded itunes 11.0.1 for windows 8. But when i try to add songs or a playlist to my iphone it wont let me. I have seen on other discussions where you click the "add to" under "done". But i do not have that option? HELP

I'm having the same problem. In the video tutorial, it actually shows how to manually add items to your device...
When the iPhone is attached, click on its icon in the top menu bar.
The next menu bar has an option 'On This iPhone' - click on this.
Then click on Add To... (which is on the right within the new menu)
Your iPhone is then displayed in the right column, with all the contents.
You should then be able to drag and drop any items directly to the iPhone.
HOWEVER:
I can get as far as number 4, when trying to drag and drop absolutely nothing happens...
So, in theory it's possible - getting it to work however....

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