So I got my iPhone 11 Pro Max on Friday and am absolutely loving it — the cameras, the speed and responsiveness and that awesome frosted/matte backing.
One major inconvenience I ran into during my restore from backup really ruined my day for me.
Back story — I’ve always had about 30-40GB of music on my iPhones from my CD collection over the years. A few months back, I finally pulled the trigger on Apple Music. When I did, it blended my own music with Apple Music just fine — I always download the songs to the device and never stream, when it comes to Apple Music tracks.
Anyways, Friday morning I did a full backup of my iPhone X to my Mac. Got home with 11 Pro Max and restored from that same backup. But I noticed that it didn’t transfer ANY of my music. After a little digging, I found that it displayed mostly everything through the Music app, but with the cloud next to albums/songs. So I had to manually redownload all 30ish GBs of music. Also, some CDs that I once had before won’t show up, because they’re not available on Apple Music.
Has this happened to anyone else? Anyone have any idea what I did wrong? Going forward, I really don’t want to ever have to waste 3-4 hours manually downloading all of my songs again.
I’ve come to terms with probably not trying to mix my actual music with my Apple Music stuff, but is there not a way for the Mac backup to keep track of what Apple Music you have downloaded so that when I restore it puts them all onto new device?
One major inconvenience I ran into during my restore from backup really ruined my day for me.
Back story — I’ve always had about 30-40GB of music on my iPhones from my CD collection over the years. A few months back, I finally pulled the trigger on Apple Music. When I did, it blended my own music with Apple Music just fine — I always download the songs to the device and never stream, when it comes to Apple Music tracks.
Anyways, Friday morning I did a full backup of my iPhone X to my Mac. Got home with 11 Pro Max and restored from that same backup. But I noticed that it didn’t transfer ANY of my music. After a little digging, I found that it displayed mostly everything through the Music app, but with the cloud next to albums/songs. So I had to manually redownload all 30ish GBs of music. Also, some CDs that I once had before won’t show up, because they’re not available on Apple Music.
Has this happened to anyone else? Anyone have any idea what I did wrong? Going forward, I really don’t want to ever have to waste 3-4 hours manually downloading all of my songs again.
I’ve come to terms with probably not trying to mix my actual music with my Apple Music stuff, but is there not a way for the Mac backup to keep track of what Apple Music you have downloaded so that when I restore it puts them all onto new device?
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