Itunes Sync For Mac: How to Access Your Music Library Across Your Devices

After you connect your device to your Mac, you can sync content between the two. See Sync content between your Mac and iPhone, iPad or iPod touch or Sync content between your Mac and iPhone, iPad or iPod touch over Wi-Fi.

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Now that iTunes is no longer in macOS Catalina, iPhone and iPad device management on the Mac has a new home: Finder. Once you get used to heading to Finder to sync, backup, update, and restore your iPhone and iPad, everything else should be straightforward.

TunesGo is another application that allows you to sync iTunes to your Android device, as well as backup your music from pretty much any mobile device. You can download it onto your Mac or Windows computer for free, but you will have to pay a fee to keep using it.

About half the time i plug in my iPhone 6 to my MBP2015 15" to sync and they get stuck in a loop: the phone will beep to indicate the start of a sync, and the screen flashes, then 1 second later it beeps again. It keeps beeping until unplugged. Fully rebooting both devices at the same time seems to work, but its a pain... Rebooting either is not effective: they both need to be booted if the loop has happened.

The answer is simple: Your iPhone needs to be charged at least 50% in order to sync in iTunes. (My iPhone was charged at 45% and I got the dreaded beeping sound today. Absurd? Yes.) Once you charge it more fully, the beeping should cease. At least it did for me.

Scrivener for iPad and iPhone is meant to work both independently and in conjunction with Scrivener for Mac or Windows. You can create projects, write, edit, and compile on your iPad or iPhone, but you can also sync projects between your mobile device and desktop computer so you can work on both devices.

If you want to sync projects between devices, there are two ways to do so. You can use iTunes (on Windows) or the Finder (on Mac) to copy projects to and from your mobile devices. Or you can use Dropbox to sync your projects as you work on them.

In the early days of the iPhone and iPad, the only way to sync content from a computer to a mobile device was by using iTunes. Over the years, Apple introduced features such as iCloud, which syncs contacts, calendars, reminders, and notes; Apple Music, which lets you store your music library in the cloud; the TV app, which allows you to access all the content you have purchased or rented from Apple's stores; the Books app, which syncs ebooks and audiobooks; etc. Many people no longer sync these devices at all. There is also iCloud Drive, which allows you to sync files across all your devices.

But some files don't sync easily using Apple's cloud storage. In fact, I want to give a warning here about using Scrivener with iCloud Drive. In this article, I discussed syncing Scrivener files between two computers, and discussed issues with various cloud storage servers. iCloud Drive is a special case, because of the way it works with Scrivener projects. Since Scrivener projects are made up of many files, iCloud Drive, especially on mobile devices, won't necessarily download all the files in a project, so you may end up with corrupted projects.

Connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer with a USB to lightning cable. If you sync your device regularly, and use wi-fi sync, you won't need to do this. Find the device in the iTunes or Finder sidebar; click its icon.

Click the Files tab, then click the > next to Scrivener to see the files the app contains. In the example below, there's a Dropbox folder (I explain Dropbox syncing below) and a Tutorial folder. That contains the interactive tutorial that you can access in Scrivener for iPad or iPhone.

Dropbox is a cloud storage service, which offers a free tier (2 GB) and paid tiers (2 TB or more). The free plan may be sufficient if you just use it for your Scrivener projects, but it is limited to three devices. If you only have, say, a desktop computer, a laptop, and a tablet, then the free plan will work for you. But if you have more devices, and you want to use Dropbox on them, you'll have to pay at least $10 a month. This said, Dropbox is extremely reliable, and it's the only cloud storage service that is fully compatible with Scrivener. As such, Dropbox support is baked into Scrivener for iPad and iPhone. (See this article for more on syncing projects to the cloud from computers, as well as some remarks about other cloud storage services.)

Syncing with Dropbox is easy, but it is important to be aware that this syncing is not automatic; syncing only occurs when you have finished working on a project, or when you tell Scrivener to sync your files, depending on the settings you choose.

To set up Dropbox syncing on Scrivener for iPad or iPhone, you must have the Dropbox app installed, and you must be logged into your account. (You also need to install the Dropbox app on your Mac or PC.) From the main screen of Scrivener - I'm using the iPhone app for these examples - tap Edit, tap the Gear icon, then tap Link Dropbox.

Now, with the project in your Dropbox folder, it is not only available to sync to other devices, but it also serves as a backup. (Sort of; it's not really a backup because it can be deleted, but if you back up your Mac or PC regularly, your Dropbox folder will get backed up.)

You can also now put projects into the Dropbox folder on your Mac or PC, so you can access them on your mobile devices. Make sure to put these projects in the folder you selected above. On a Mac or PC, syncing occurs automatically, if the Dropbox app is running.

Scrivener does not sync your projects to Dropbox while you work. There are some settings that can make Dropbox syncing a bit easier. Go to Settings > Scrivener, then tap Syncing & Sharing. If you toggle Auto-Detect Changes, Scrivener will sync your projects when you close them, if it has detected changes; that is, when you go back to the main screen that lists projects.

You can choose whether syncing projects on close or rename takes place Never, Wi-Fi Only, or Always. There is a similar setting to allow Scrivener to check Dropbox when you open a project. And Scrivener can give you a warning if you are not on wi-fi and your project is more than 10 MB, Never, or Always. This is because mobile data can be expensive, and if you sync often, you'll be sending the same files over and over to Dropbox.

With these options, you can sync files easily from your computer to your mobile devices so you can write anywhere. I've not gone into much detail about Dropbox syncing, and there's a Scrivener support document that looks more closely at how this works (though you probably don't need to know more) as well as offering solutions if you have a problem.

Some iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and iPad Pro users have discovered that iTunes does not recognize the new iPhone connected to a Mac. Instead, launching iTunes with iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPad Pro, or iPhone 11 Pro connected via USB cable does nothing, and the iPhone does not show up in iTunes, it does not sync, backup, or appear to exist at all within iTunes. This is understandably frustrating if you rely on iTunes for device management, backing up, and syncing iPhone 11 or iPhone 11 Pro to a computer, so this walkthrough will aim to show you how to fix this problem on a Mac.

I am so thankful, with the solution 2 i definitely solved the problem of sync high sierra and iPhone xr, not even apple support was able to do this, but i was convinced that there was a solution and finally i found your trick! thank you so much. Teodora.

Due to the age of my iMac (2011), I can not upgrade beyond High Sierra OS, so Catalina OS is not available to me. Without Catalina I could not sync my iPad to my iMac. Your solution was the only one I found that worked.

Yes! Thank you, Paul. Hours of upgrading and updating and searching after the iOS update and finally I can sync my iPhone to my MacBook Air again. And, as Tom said above, this works for iPhone X, too.

When you connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, you can sync a range of media to your device, including albums, songs, playlists, movies, TV shows, podcasts, books, audiobooks, photos and videos, contacts and calendars. This article shows you how it's done.

We can see that there are two options to choose from: sync the entire music library or select an artist, album, genres, and playlists. Choose the second one to find all your songs separated by Artist, Albums, Genres and Playlist. You can do any combination of those, include videos or automatically fill free space with songs. These iTunes feature is now available in Finder.

You might be not so familiar with the sync function anymore, since now most of us use iCloud to do backup or syncing. Many users may not even realize there are ways to sync from a Mac to an iPhone, especially after iTunes is gone. Syncing your Mac is actually a good way to share files between your phone and Mac, both automatically and wirelessly.

iTunes has always been the go-to application for syncing your music, TV shows and movies, podcasts, and books between computer and mobile device. Now that iTunes has been retired in macOS Catalina, all the music and media that was once stored there is now kept in specialized programs.

On your Catalina-based Mac, connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Click the Go menu and select any location such as Computer, Desktop, or Documents. On the left side of the window, swipe down to the Location section and click the entry for your device. The first time you do this, you'll need to click the Trust button to sync your computer with your device. The screen for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch appears with headers for the different categories and content types.

You can manually sync your music by clicking the Music tab and checking the box next to Sync music onto [name of your device]. If you have a small music library and want to sync all of it to your device, select the option next to Entire Music Library.

If you'd rather choose which music to sync, pick the Selected artists, albums, genres, and playlists option instead. You can then view your music by Artists, Albums, Genres, or Playlists. Whichever category you select, check the items you want to sync. Click Apply in the bottom-right corner if you don't need to sync any other content, or move to the next section if there is more. 2ff7e9595c