Transferring music onto new iPhone

How can I transfer music from my iPhone 3GS onto my new iPhone 5S that's arriving soon? Do I simply do a backup in iTunes and restore the backup onto the new phone? Does it matter that's it'll be restoring the backup from a much older version of the OS?
Thanks in advance.

The backup does not contain any itunes content.
All of your music should be stored on your computer. Is it not? If not, then put it there. From your computer, you can sync it to any idevice you like.

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Transferring music to new iphone without using a laptop

Hey guys so I need some help. I'm preparing to get my new iphone 6 next week but have a problem. Currently I have an iphone 5 with all my music on there. I used to have a laptop which had itunes on it and I imported all my music onto there. I have also downloaded music from iTunes in the past. My laptop has now broken and I need to know how I can transfer all my music from my iphone 5 to my new iphone 6? I have my icloud set up but I don't believe it is possible to transfer music using that? Correct me if I'm wrong?
Is iTunes Match a solution will that work? In addition I have photo albums I have previously synced from my laptop, will these transfer over? Eventually I want to get a new laptop but that is not really a solution at the moment. Any help would be appreciated

Purchased items from iTunes are available in the iTunes Store under purchased.
You can log into iTunes from the phone under the same Apple ID, go to purchased and download your music.
anything not purchased from iTunes will not be there.
icloud backups can be used to transfer content.
iCloud: iCloud storage and backup overview
iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud

I just got a brand new laptop and I can't seem to put music onto my iPhone - help?

I just got a brand new laptop and I can't seem to put music onto my iPhone - help? I'd really rather not completely empty my iPhone in order to have it agree with this new laptop. How do I get them to talk to one another and let me put my music on my iPhone?

The iPhone will only Sync to One iTunes Library at a time.
KlBlair wrote:
I just got a brand new laptop ...
From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
If you do not have access to the iTunes Library on your Old computer... or its Backup...
See these 2 Links...
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Syncing to a New Computer...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

Bought a new macbook and want to manually manage music onto my iphone 4s but when i click 'manually manage' and then 'apply' i get the message saying it will erase everything already on there. Need help please!

Bought a new macbook and want to manually manage music onto my iphone 4s (as it is already full of music from old windows laptop) but when i click 'manually manage' and then 'apply' i get the message saying it will erase everything already on there. Need help please!

Before you sync your iPhone make sure that all the music that was synced to your phonereviously has been copied to your iTunes on the new MacBook Pro. Then when you connect your phone you will be able to either sync all music or select only those playlists that you want on the phone.

When I upload new music onto my iPhone 5 it causes existing music to no longer be playable and a circle with an exclamation mark to appear next to it. Or that it won't upload at all, the song is in grey with a dotted circle. Why is that?

When I manually upload new music onto my iPhone 5 it causes existing music to no longer be playable and a circle with an exclamation mark to appear next to it. Or that it won't upload at all, the song is in grey with a dotted circle next to it. This is incredibly frustrating; especially as I have 1.9GB free on my phone.. why is that?

Try this procedure; it has worked for many people.
Un-sync all your music to remove it from the device, then restart (hold down the home button along with the sleep/wake button until you see the apple, then let go). Now re-sync your music.

I can't sync new music onto my iPhone?

I have a black 32GB iPhone 5. I've had the phone for about 7 months and I've had no problems with it until recently. My iTunes won't sync new music onto my iPhone. I've tried switching the cable and checking and unchecking music, but it doesn't work. When I tried to uncheck all the music and sync it, the music stayed on my phone. Tracks that I've deleted stay on my phone, and new tracks won't sync to my phone. I recently downloaded an album from iTunes, and the songs on the album appeared on my phone through iCloud. However, new songs that I haven't purchased through iTunes won't sync. How can I fix this problem?

What happens when you try? We're not psychic...

Why is transferring music onto iphone really slow?

for a couple of updates now the moving of music onto ipods/iphones has been really slow, sometimes it adds to the device but remains blacked out on iTunes or sometimes it says complete but hasn't added to the device ?!
what happened to the simple drag and drop? iTunes got so fancy it no longer does the job it was meant to!!

It depends on where you download them from; I have plenty of jazz in Podcast.
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee374/Diavonex/Album%201/e9c12fefb0b9a17c3b7 dd951dee34812.jpg

Can you drag-and-drop music onto the iPhone in iTunes?

New to iPhone and only just braking it in, as it were.
It looks like the only way I can upload music onto my iPhone is via synching my entire library onto it. Which, if I may say so, is an incredibly stupid and debilitating design - amongst other severe shortcomings of the iPhone I am slowly discovering over time. Is it not possible to drag-and-drop like the good old iPods?
If this is indeed the only way to load music, what's the easiest I can pick out my favorite 2000-or so tunes and put them on there?? Don't tell me it's clicking on the boxes next to the songs in the Library page, because that's when I will start asking for my money back...
Cheers

I don't blame this person whatsoever for making the assumption that the iPod portion of his phone would work similarily, if not the same, as the iPod.
But it does work the same as the iPod. As with an iPod, you can sync all songs and playlists, or selected playlists, or you can manually manage music and videos. You can also select sync only checked songs and videos under the Summary tab and uncheck the songs in your iTunes library that you don't want transferred to your iPhone. This can be used with syncing selected playlists - if you want to remove a song from your iPhone that is in a selected playlist without removing the song from the playlist in iTunes, you uncheck the song in the playlist in iTunes followed by a sync. There is no difference with an iPod in this regard except for the iPhone not supporting disk mode.
In order to manually manage music and videos with an iPod, you must select this under the Summary tab for the iPod sync preferences, and the same for the iPhone.
And if you resent his rant, why respond and waste your volunteer time on this post?
I can waste my time anyway I see fit. If you don't like it, don't respond.
And not everyone can afford to replace this type of investment on a whim.
Copied from the OP's post.
Don't tell me it's clicking on the boxes next to the songs in the Library page, *because that's when I will start asking for my money back...*
Or the iPhone can be sold to someone else with the proceeds used to purchase a different phone. I haven't read any reports about someone having trouble selling their iPhone used at a good price even if damaged.

My itunes wont let me put music onto my iphone

My itunes wont let me put music onto my iphone or take music off. Everytime I go to sync it it says I dont have enough space but I clearly have more than enough space left. I also am trying to take music off of my iphone so I can put new music on but everytime this box pops up and I really dont know what to do.

I think you have misunderstood the message you see.
The message states that you need an additional 1.93GB as well as the 3.93GB shown in the capacity bar. So it requires a total of 5.86GB.
There are a couple of things you can try:
Click on the OK button (in that message) and then deselect the media that you wish to remove. Once you have un-ticked the Playlists, or albums or whatever, click on the Sync button again to allow iTunes to Sync. It will then remove the un-ticked items, leaving space to add the 5.86GB that you are trying to add. If you continue to see the same message, but with a smaller additional amount required, then you have not deselected enough items.
Check how much space is being used by the "Other" category (shown in the capacity bar). While there will always be a small amount of Other on an iPod, anything over 1GB is probably not correct. Usually, a Sync will sort this out. If it doesn't then you may have to perform a Restore procedure, but I suggest you use that only as a last resort.

What is the best way of putting music onto another iphone?

What is the best way of putting music onto another iphone for a different itunes account user and different phone carrier? multiple user accounts on my mac? or home sharing to put the music on? then they have their own itunes account for apps etc?

Hi DVX100Shooter,
Congratulations on getting your son a new iPad, I am sure he will enjoy it.
Family Sharing is one way of managing both purchases and content between members of a related group of people. Each member must have their own Apple ID. You can choose what music you wish to share with the family from your own account. See this article -
OS X Yosemite: Share purchases with your family
In particular the section titled Hide a purchase from other family members
The music library on your son's iPad is separate from yours, but under Family Sharing you agree to pay for all purchases made through the iTunes store. If you wish to control what is purchased you can set up the Ask to Buy option for any family member under adult age in your location. See this article for details -
Request and make purchases with Ask to Buy - Apple Support
Gift cards may not be used for billing of purchases under family sharing, with the exception that a family member may use gift cards to purchase their own content. See this article for information about Family Sharing billing policies -
Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
The shared family photo album is available to all family members.
Family Sharing - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

How can i put music onto my iphone on another computer without having to delete everything off my computer?

I want to download new music onto my iphone, but it will not let me. I have been doing it for the past year on my old desktop computer but recently brought a laptop and got rid of that. When i try to now sinc the music to my phone it is telling me my itunes library is on another computer and to download new music ifrom my laptop I must delete everything off my iphone. is there anyway i can download the music without having to delete everything of my iphone?

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See these 2 Links...
Syncing to a New Computer...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
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Not able to transfer songs from iTunes onto new iPhone 4s?

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If this is a Windows based computer, try restarting the AMDS...
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Getting music onto an iPhone

Hello. A riend of mine recently purchased a new iPhone. He doesn't have a Mac, or a PC. Other than an Android tablet. He's wanting to get a bunch of music onto his iPhone from a USB Flash drive. Is there any way to do this, if you don't have a copy of iTunes on a computer of some kind?

Sorry, not possible. It needs to come your computer (iTunes) or iCloud. To get it on iCloud, it has to come from an iOS device or a computer.
You might be able to use an app like Box or Dropbox. If you can get the music onto one of their servers, I believe the app can play the music.

Can't put music onto my Iphone 4 or listen to any music previously on it. Help!!

Hello. For the past 2 weeks every single time ive tried to put any music onto my iphone 4 it comes up as not sync'd and on my phone it shows the song with a little red square and a red circle around it. Yesturday I tried again but this time all 1500 songs on my phone started showing the red square and circle. I have updated to iOS7 but not the update since then as that update has done enough damage to my phone as is. Does anyone know how I can fix this as music is the entire reason I ever bought an Iphone to begin with..
This is what my itunes looks like now, after all songs have been deleted because I figured maybe that would help.
Here is what it looks like on my phone
I deleted every song off of my phone on the phone and on itunes but as i was getting the pictures together for this post apparently all the music i deleted is back on my phone but all still with the red square and circle.

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I cannot drag my music onto my iphone? Error icon?

I cannot drag and drop my music onto my iphone, it gives me an error icon as i go to put it in?
The music stores into my itunes library fine, but doesnt want to go into my iphone?
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