New iPhone 4S user: Problems syncing iTunes playlists
I have had my 4S for only 3 days. At setup, I indicated that I only wanted several specific playlists to sync to the iPhone, along with a couple of specific artists. This initially worked fine. Now, in playing around with the iPhone & the iTunes interface the past couple of days, I somehow have managed to remove the sync playist option from iTunes, & the playlists are not showing on the iPhone. I feel certain the content of the specific playlists involved is on the iPhone because the GBs for space used for music is correct. When the iPhone is docked, the only options I, now, have on the interface under music are the following:
iTunes Match is on
sync voice memos is checked
the window that says "from Playlists" is "greyed out" or in dim video, & I can't click on anything.
Under the summary page, is the following:
Open iTunes when phone is connected
Sync with this iPhone over WiFi
Sync only checked songs & videos
These 3 are the only items checked.
Looking at the iPhone:
Playlists are empty
Artists, songs & albums fields are all populated which I assume is what the iPhone is detecting in the cloud.
I have been out of the loop for quite awhile in troubleshooting iTunes issues especially for iOS devices, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks
I duplicated tthis post in the iPhone forum as I wasn't sure which forum would be best. The problem has now been resolved in the iPhone forum.
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