ITunes Wifi NEVER works using drag

When I'm home and my iPhone 4S & MacBook Pro are on the same wifi network.....I try to drag & drop a song from my iTunes library onto my iPhone. It NEVER works! It always says "looking for iPhone" & then ejects my iPhone from the left sidebar of iTunes or it will add it but it will be dimmed with a circular wifi sync icon next to it in my iPhone library so it's there but it isn't live. I tried to ask about this a year ago & I was yelled at here on the forums saying "YOU CAN'T FIX SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BROKE" by some user with an attitude. Cleary, there's a problem with wifi syncing and I'm surpirised Apple hasn't fixed this yet. Anyone have an answer to this?

Another oddity: When this iPad syncs, it does NOT create a backup as part of the process (whether wired or wireless). All my other devices do, as one would expect...

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