Music Transfer to New iPhone 17 Not all imported

I recently received a new iphone 17 Pro and in the setup not all of my Music library was brought over. It looks like the music from CD's that I had on my old iphone 13 Pro was not imported into my new iphone, and they no longer show up on itunes. My Albums have greyed out songs that do not play. How do I get these back without reimporting each CD into my itunes library?


iPhone 17 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Oct 6, 2025 10:20 AM

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Nov 16, 2025 1:37 AM in response to Andy Staines

Weird one really. The only music I had access to on iPhone were items bought on iTunes. None of my own transfers from CDs.

I have my music library on my Mac so I plugged phone in to Mac and ran a sync on music.

This worked. Now had acces to all my own stuff but NOT any longer to iTunes purchases. So it sort of flipped.

However - after an overnight automatic backup of phone all suddenly became available.

The ways of Apple are indeed curious....

Nov 16, 2025 1:33 PM in response to Andy Staines

I figured out my problem. My main problem: I forgot that I used to synch my music by hard wire connection to the phone via the Music app. A "well, duh" moment for me to be sure, but it has been a while since I've added new music. Everything is now playable as always. Hats off Andy for the reminder.


FWIW, I just also updated to iOS 26.1 today. Whether that is the solution to the dozens of similar problems, I don't know.

Nov 12, 2025 10:12 AM in response to mitchbradshaw76

No, I have not support on loading music. It seems that any music that I had loaded into iTunes from CDs was not loaded back on to my new iPhone17.

I also have issues with iphone calls on my RAM Uconnect. I can hear people who I call or who call me, but they cannot hear me. If I delete my iPhone17 and then re-set it up then everything is good until I turn my truck off and then restart it and then people cannot hear me on phone calls. Frustrating. I had a iPhone 13 and everything worked with Uconnect phone calls.

Music Transfer to New iPhone 17 Not all imported

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