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When enabling the Sync Music option in iTunes 11, a warning appears stating that all existing music will be erased on your iPhone before syncing your library. This isn't a big deal if your library also contains your old music, because these files will sync back to the iPhone. However, if you previously deleted your old music from your library or are attempting to add music from another computer, you'll lose the old files. Therefore, to preserve the existing music, you must override the auto-sync settings and choose to manually add new music.
Press and hold the "Ctrl-Shift" keys on your computer and then connect the USB sync cable from the iPhone to your computer. Open iTunes if it does not open automatically.
Release the keys when your iPhone appears in the list of connected devices. By keeping the keys depressed, you circumvent any automatic sync that might occur.
Click "iPhone" from the list of devices, select the "Summary" tab and then check "Manually Manage Music and Videos."
Click "Done," open your music library and locate the new songs.
Click and drag the new songs toward the right. As you drag, a sidebar appears with your iPhone device listed. Drop the songs onto this label to manually sync the new song without removing existing songs.
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I haven't transfered any music to my iPhone since getting a new MacBook Pro and iTunes being replaced by the Music app. I already have a lot of music on my iPhone but cannot work out how to add some new tracks from Music on the MacBook. It doesn't seem possible to do it in the Music app (?)
When I go to Finder and the iPhone > Music tab and select "Sync music onto ..." I am faced with the warning
Are you sure you want to remove existing music, movies, TV shows and books from this iPhone and sync with this library?
Music, movies, TV shows and books synced to “Mark XS” from other libraries will be removed and items will be synced from this library.
I do not want to delete everything that is already on the phone in order to add a few new tracks and albums. Durely there is some other way around this ?
Thanks in advance for any advice !
Connect your device to your Mac.
You can connect your device using a USB or USB-C cable or using a Wi-Fi connection. See Sync content between your Mac and iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch over Wi-Fi.
In the Finder
on your Mac, select the device in the Finder sidebar.If you connect your device to your Mac using a USB cable and don’t see the device in the Finder sidebar, see If your device doesn’t appear in the sidebar.
Click Music in the button bar.
Select the “Sync music onto [device name]” checkbox to turn on syncing of your music.
With the checkbox selected, syncing is set to transfer all your music to your device.
To sync a selection of music, click “Selected playlist, artists, albums, and genres.”
Select the checkbox for each item you want to sync in the music list. Deselect the checkbox for any item you don’t want to sync.
Click Artists, Albums, Genres, or Playlists to see your content organized by that category.
Select syncing options:
Select the “Include videos” checkbox to include videos when syncing.
Select the “Include voice memos” checkbox to include voice memos when syncing
Select the “Automatically fill free space with songs” checkbox to have your Mac fill the free space on your device with songs when syncing. Use this option if you have a large music library on your Mac but don’t have room to sync all of your music to your device. This option syncs as many songs as possible.
When you’re ready to sync, click Apply.
You can choose to sync your Mac and your device automatically whenever you connect them. See Turn automatic syncing on or off on Mac.
Before disconnecting your device from your Mac, click the Eject button