ITunes won't download music to iPhone 4

When I buy a song on my iTunes throught my iPhone 4 it shows its downloading then goes to finish and says: unable to download this song, could not be downloaded at this time then let's me either select retry or done, I click retry and it comes up with the same message, and this is every single song I try to download not a few ALL of them... Every week for the last month I have tried to get it to work and it won't, I even checked my usage on my phone and I still have 3G space

Sounds like an iTunes problem Try contacting them for assistance at https://expresslane.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action

Similar Messages

Itunes won't download on my iphone

My purchased itunes will not download to my iphone, but they do download to my ipod. I have the box checked to download songs. When I try to access itunes on my iphone, it tells me I have to be connected to wi-fi. Thank you for any assistance.

When you sync, do you have "sync all music" checked? Are you getting any error messages?
To access the iTunes store from your iPhone, you do need to be connected to Wi-Fi. Edge won't work for the iTunes store.
-SB

ITunes won't sync music to iPhone 6 Plus

On my old 5S 32GB I had iTunes Match turned on.
I just got a 64GB 6 Plus, set up by restoring from my 5S iCloud backup. Since I now have 64GB of space, I decided to have all my music locally again, so I turned off iTunes Match.
I plugged my 6 Plus into my Mac and told iTunes to Sync All Music. I have about 20GB (3600 songs) of music, and I set iTunes to convert it to 128kbps when syncing, so I expected it to take a while. The blue bar at the bottom (Audio) indeed showed I'd now have 20GB of Audio on my iPhone.
However, the sync went really quickly, and when I checked my 6 Plus, there was no music on it.
I plugged it back in, and the blue bar had gone (i.e. saying there was no audio on the phone).
I restarted Mac and iPhone, tried again. This time it seemed to be taking ages to sync, so I went to bed and left it. I got up this morning and sync had finished. I checked my phone, and all my albums are there, but there's no artwork, every song is greyed out, and has a Stop button next to it.
Any idea what's going on?
iPhone 6 Plus running 8.0, Mac Mini running latest OS X 10.9.5 and latest iTunes 11.4. Note that iTunes Match is not, and never has been, enabled on the Mac Mini.

I am having the same issue. My new iPhone 6 plus, with iTunes Match, will not sync with my macbook pro. I keep getting a message stating the sync failed due to some songs not authorized for my computer. All of the songs were purchased under my account. So it won't sync. I need to sync my tones to my phone and I can't. I am up to date on all software updates for both.
Did you find an answer to your problem? Has anyone else had this issue?

My iTunes won't download music to my iPod Touch 5th Generation

I just recently bought some CD's, and I have found that my iTunes program won't let me download them to my iPod. I believe I have a 5th generation iPod Touch, and I have a Windows Vista... I don't know if it's because I updated to the newest iTunes version(12.0.1) and the latest ios for my iPod, but I've never had the problem of not being able to download songs to my iPod before... When I try to move the songs from my iTunes to my iPod, there is a blue highlight around my playlists, but not around my iPod... On iTunes, I do have the option to "manually manage music and videos" checked off. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! (And I don't know what this is, I've tried to fix it but it still comes up, there is an error message when I start iTunes that says "iTunes has detected that it is not the default player for audio files. Would you like to go to the Default Programs control panel to fix this?" Could someone please help me with this as well?)

Does any media now sync to the iPod?
Do the songs play in iTunes on the computer?
Did yo use iTunes import feture to imprt the CD into your iTunes library?
Try backing up the iPod to iTunes and restoring from that backup
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
iTunes for Windows: How to make iTunes the default application for music and audio files in Windows Vista and Windows 7 …

ITunes won't sync music to iPhone 6

I Noticed only maybe half my music on my iPhone 6 today. So I just figured I sync and the rest of my music will be transferred. Nope it won't sync my music. I tried wiping all the music off my phone, restarted the phone and tried syncing and none of my music is being transferred. what an epic fail for Apple. If anyone has any suggestions that would much appreciated.

i can't get mine to work either. It says it syncs the music. and it looks like it did. But it's not really on there. when you click it tries to download it.
it's broken. you should only have to click sync once.

New laptop, iTunes won't sync music onto iPhone 4

I recently got a new laptop (acer) and I wanted to put my music from my phone onto it. I downloaded and installed iTunes, the only songs I had on it were what I brought from iTunes. So I transfered everything from my phone (iPhone 4) onto it. Problem #1. It only transfered the music I had brught from iTunes. No cds I had put onto iTunes transfered. So using a USB, I transferred all of the music I had on my iMac to my my laptop - I put it in the iTunes Media/Music folder of my documents. It didn't go into iTunes, until I dragged it directly from the folder and placed it in iTunes. That was that problem solved. I tried syncing my music and none it it would play. It was all grey writing and had a pink square next to the song name. Nothing worked, excpet for the songs I had brought directly from iTunes. Not even albums I had recently brought and put into my itunes would work.. That was problem #2. Thing is though, after I synced the music onto my, I got a notification on iTunes saying that there were 23 errors and some songs could not be found. These songs were the songs that I brought from iTunes, and could actually play from my phone.
I've tried updating both iTunes and my phone software, turning my phone on and off, deleteing and reinstalling iTunes. Everything I can thinnk of but nothing will work. I really just want to play my music from my phone... It'll play in iTunes, but just not from my phone.
Please help!

this is happening to me as well. I have tried every single "fix" out there that I can find.
I have restored my phone from backups.
I have uninstalled itunes and reinstalled it on my comp
I have restore to factory settings and started from scratch
literally nothing is working.

Itunes won't sync music to iphone 5

I've just upgraded to the iphone 5 32gb from 16gb and having a few issues with syncing music. My iphone 5 (16gb), I passed on to my mother as I wanted a 32gb, but I'm using the same apple id for both phones. I used restore from icloud to set up the phone initially. All my apps and books sync, but music will not sync no matter what I do. I've tried resetting the phone, it made no difference. I've tried erasing the phone and setting up from itunes, instead of icloud and it made no difference. The music appears in itunes as greyed out with a stationary cycle to the left of the music titles. I'm hoping someone can help me here or my only alternative is to take the phone back to the shop and get a replacement.

OK, in a final attempt I finally managed to get it working! I did this by erasing the phone again and setting up as a new phone and then syncing with itunes.

ITunes won't sync music to iPhone

I have been trying for 5 days to sync music to my iPhone 4 6.1.3 I have tried ticking all of the different boxes. I have made sure "Sync Music" is ticked. When I press apply it comes up with 4 steps and then says syncing finished. But it doesn't actually copy the music. I have uninstalled itunes, reinstalled it, restarted my phone, turned the wifi off and nothing seems to be working.I don't think the problem is with my iTunes because it syncs absolutely fine to my iPad. I'm running out of ideas. I was thinking of resetting my iPhone but I don't want to lose my app history because it might not work. I don't really know what to do. Please help.

i have the same problem, please some help

ITunes won't sync music to iPhone 4

I bought a new laptop a few months ago, and installed iTunes. I moved all my music from my old laptop on to my new one, yet my iPhone 4 will not sync to it. I am not able to simply drag tracks across from my library and onto my iPhone, but instead have to create a playlist and autofill them, which means I can't delete or edit song information once i have put them on. This also meant i lost all my music when updating to iOS 5, and whilst I have got some of it back, I still have to autofill songs. If anyone knows how I can get back to being able to sync music like i could on my old laptop, please tell me, even if it involves resetting my phone/iTunes.

Hello Alybob,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
If you are repeatedly prompted to authorize your computer for an Apple ID, please follow below:
iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
Take care,
Alex H.

ITunes won't sync music with iphone 6

Hi
i'm facing a stupid problem where my itunes sync photos perfectly fine but when it comes to music it does not I can see the music in the library (on this phone library) but it has some dotted circles beside them when i press sync it will fill the storage bar down below and starts the loading/syncing bar on top it wont show any signs of syncing a single song i have tried restoring the device , adding music manually and sync with Wi-Fi did not work and my phone is a brand new iPhone 6 with plenty of storage available it is frustrating ugh...
Note:
im using iTunes 12.0.1
iPhone 6 64gb running iOS 8.1
sorry for my bad english if you did not understand ask for more explanation
Thank you

Same issue here, but on an iPhone 4.
Tried multiple combinations of unchecking playlist, reboot mac, reboot phone ... nothing worked.
Re-initialized the phone and bam .. music is synching.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.

ITunes won't import music from iPhone to iTunes Library

I have a large Purchased playlist on my iPhone. However, none of these songs will sync to my iTunes. They are shown in my Music tab under my phone but not in my actual iTunes library. Clicking sync shows the songs greyed out in my library with the progress wheel momentarily, but then they disappear from the library - as if it cancelled the syncing to my laptop. This is just one of numerous issues I am having with iTunes. Anyone know of a fix? I've already restored my phone due to other issues I was having as of a couple days ago, and I've already deleted all my music from my phone and attempted to re-sync it, but nothing works. So many issues with this program. What gives, Apple?

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
tt2

My iTunes won't sync music to my iphone 4

My iTunes won't sync music on to my iPhone 4. It syncs music on to my ipod 3rd gen, but not my iPhone. All my software is up to date, and all my settings are correct, but nothing seems to work. I've tried, turning my phone off and on, restoring my phone, restarting my computer, unchecking and checking my music, and nothing seems to work. I only have one playist with all the songs I want onto my iPhone, because my whole iTunes library doesnt fit onto it. Another note, it was working perfectly fine yesterday and this morning. But earlier today, my music only showed 3 artists, 2 albums, and 622 songs (which is how much I should have on there), and I tried re-syncing my iPhone, and now there's no music on there at all. Please help, music is the main thing I use my phone for, and its gonna make me go crazy if I dont fix this.

I know that most of these posts were put up a little while ago
But.
I too had a similar problem - my thoughts were:
Something to do with update to IOS 7.4
Corruption
Itunes software issue
After a LOT of research, I found a simple step that solved this issue for me.
I had been running my sync (pre - IOS 7.4) as automatic - see the options section under the summary tab
I changed my selection to manually manage music and videos and tried another sync
Wha La!
It began to copy over 700 songs that had not properly synced to my Ipad 2
BONUS: it then started to sync my videos again.
Hope this helps somebody.
It certainly made my life less frustrating
Downside: I have to MANUALLY manage - but it's better than all the hassles
NB: I don't know why this error occurs and I'm not sure this fix will work for everyone's issues but it can't hurt.

My itunes won't put music onto my iphone, i'll click and drag it to my phone but it won't take it. how do i fix that

My itunes won't put music onto my iphone, i'll click and drag to my phone but it won't take it. How do I fix that?
Please help me out...

You can only do that if you switch manually manage ON.
Connect iPhone to iTunes, select iPhone in iTunes left panel, go to Summary tab and switch Manually manage music and videos to ON.

My songs from iTunes won't download, I went to the downloads tap and all seven of my new songs say "download error, tap to retry" and when I tap on one a message pops up saying " this song could not be downloaded at this time". What do I do?

My songs from iTunes won't download. I recently just purchased 7 songs and they took my money but now the songs won't download to my phone. I have gone to the download screen on the iTunes app and under each song it says "download error. Tap to retry". When I tap to retry a song a message pops up saying "this song could not be downloaded at this time." And it gives me two options. Either done or retry. I have tried to download them many times. I signed out and signed back in on iTunes, restarted my phone, and even checked for any updates. Nothing seems to be working. They charged the money from my card but now my songs won't download. What do I do?

Hello Bdev15,
I would be concerned too if the songs I purchased from iTunes were not downloading to my iPhone. You have taken some great troubleshooting steps already, and thank you for providing the details of the steps you too. I have a few additional suggestions to get it downloaded to your iPhone.
First, I recommend checking to see if the download was interrupted:
If your download was interrupted using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
From the Home screen, tap the iTunes app.
For iPhone or iPod touch, tap More > Downloads. For iPad, tap Downloads.
Enter your account name and password if prompted.
Tap the blue download arrow to resume.
iTunes: How to resume interrupted iTunes Store downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1725
If the songs still do not download, next I recommend downloading the songs when connected to another network. For example, if you are using the cellular network, you could switch to Wi-Fi, or you could try an alternate Wi-Fi network. Follow the steps in the section titled "iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch > Music" in the article below to download the songs:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
If you are still not able to download the songs, you can report an issue with these purchases using the steps in this article:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
Best,
Sheila M.

New itunes won't download on my mac

The new update for itunes won't download on my mac. It says that it is not compatible with my operating system. I just want to put music on my IPHONE 5!!!!!

iTunes 10.7 or newer requires at least Mac OS X 10.6.8. If you're running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or earlier, click here and buy the DVD.
(79024)

ITunes won't download music to iPhone 4

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for