Use iTunes to sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with your computer

Learn how to sync music, movies, and more using iTunes on your Mac or PC.

If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier or a Windows PC, use iTunes to sync content to your devices. Earlier you employ iTunes to sync content to your iOS or iPadOS device, consider using iCloud, Apple Music, or similar services to continue content from your Mac or PC in the cloud. This fashion, you can access your music, photos, and more on your devices when you aren't nearly your computer. Learn more than about using Apple Music or iCloud Photos instead of iTunes.

If yous use iCloud or other services like Apple Music to keep your content up-to-appointment across all of your devices, some syncing features through iTunes might be turned off.

What y'all tin sync with iTunes

  • Albums, songs, playlists, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks.
  • Photos and videos.
  • Contacts and calendars.

iTunes features might vary by state or region.

Sync or remove content using iTunes

  1. Open up iTunes and connect your device to your computer with a USB cable.
  2. Click the device icon in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window. Larn what to practise if y'all don't see the icon.
    The device icon in the upper left corner of the iTunes window.
  3. From the list under Settings on the left side of the iTunes window, click the blazon of content that you desire to sync or remove.* To turn syncing on for a content type, select the checkbox next to Sync.
    The checkbox next to Sync Music in iTunes.
  4. Select the checkbox next to each detail that you desire to sync.
  5. Click the Apply push in the lower-right corner of the window. If syncing doesn't outset automatically, click the Sync button.

* You can but sync your device with one iTunes library at a time. If you lot see a bulletin that your device is synced with another iTunes library, your device was previously continued to some other reckoner. If you click "Erase and Sync" in that message, all content of the selected type on your device will exist erased and replaced with content from this computer.

Sync your content using Wi-Fi

Afterwards you lot prepare up syncing with iTunes using USB, yous tin set up iTunes to sync to your device with Wi-Fi instead of USB.

  1. Connect your device to your computer with a USB cable, then open iTunes and select your device. Learn what to do if your device doesn't announced on your computer.
  2. Click Summary on the left side of the iTunes window.
  3. Select "Sync with this [device] over Wi-Fi."
  4. Click Employ.

When the computer and the device are on the same Wi-Fi network, the device appears in iTunes. The device syncs automatically whenever it's plugged in to power and iTunes is open up on the computer.

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