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

Find out how to sync music, films and more using iTunes on your Mac or PC.

If you're exploitation macOS Mojave Oregon earlier or a Windows PC, use iTunes to sync content to your devices. Before you usage iTunes to synchronize content to your iOS operating room iPadOS twist, consider using iCloud, Apple Music or similar services to keep content from your Mac operating room PC in the cloud. This elbow room, you bottom approach your music, photos and more along your devices when you aren't near your computer. Find out many about using Apple Music operating theatre iCloud Photos instead of iTunes.

If you enjoyment iCloud operating theatre other services, such equally Apple Euphony, to keep your content up up to now across all of your devices, some syncing features through iTunes whitethorn live upside-down off.

What you can sync with iTunes

  • Albums, songs, playlists, films, TV programmes, podcasts and audiobooks.
  • Photos and videos.
  • Contacts and calendars.

iTunes features might vary by country or area.

Sync or take off content using iTunes

  1. Open iTunes and connect your device to your computer with a USB cablegram.
  2. Click the device icon in the top left-hand corner of the iTunes windowpane. Find outer what to do if you can't see the icon.
    The device icon in the top left-hand corner of the iTunes window.
  3. From the list under Settings on the left-hand side of the iTunes window, click the type of placid you want to sync or remove.* To turn syncing on for a satisfied eccentric, tick the box seat following to Sync.
    The tickbox next to Sync Music in iTunes.
  4. Blue-ribbon the tick box adjacent to apiece item that you want to sync.
  5. Come home the Apply button in the bottom right-pass on corner of the windowpane. If the syncing process doesn't start automatically, dog the Sync button.

* You can only sync your device with one iTunes library at a time. If you see a message that says your twist is synced with another iTunes program library, then your device was antecedently socially connected to another computing device. If you click "Erase and Synchronize" in that message, all content of the selected type on your gimmick will equal erased and replaced with content from this computer.

Sync your content using WI-Fi

After you've set up syncing with iTunes using USB, you can set high iTunes to sync to your device with WI-Fi instead of USB.

  1. Connect your device to your computer with a USB cable, then spread iTunes and select your twist. Find out what to arrange if your device doesn't come along on your computer.
  2. Tick Summary on the left-hand side of the iTunes window.
  3. Select "Sync with this [device] over Wi-Fi".
  4. Click Utilise.

When the computer and the device are happening the same Wi-Fi network, the device will appear in iTunes. The gimmick will sync automatically whenever it's plugged in to power and iTunes is open on the computer.

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