I posted the below message on 10/6/17 when I could no longer see the marked playlists I chose for syncing when on the Music tab below my connected to iTunes 12.7 iPhone 7. After speaking with an AppleCare support rep a few minutes ago, I now know why I was experiencing that behavior. I made the mistake of applying info from the thread on this list about getting ringtones back and had checked the option to Manually manage music and videos. This setting really didn't apply for what I was doing and in fact is what messed up the display of my marked playlists for syncing. I unchecked that manually manage box and allowed iTunes to perform whatever was needed after changing that setting and now all my playlists are displayed again with their checkboxes.
Hope this might prove helpful to someone else who might experience this issue. Alan Lemly Hi Folks, I've been following the posts about how iTunes 12.7 works differently than the previous version in this post-iOS 11 environment. I think I've gotten the gist of what's needed with ringtones. However, I'm a bit perplexed why anything would have changed with music. Music isn't ringtones or apps so I would have thought that my music syncing would rock along with iTunes 12.7 much as it did with iTunes 12.6.x. When I connect my iPhone to my computer and navigate below the device summary listing to music, the panel to the right where it used to display my playlists with checkboxes for those I had marked to sync now shows the following: A Sync Music heading with an unchecked box next to it followed by two radio buttons the first which says entire music library and announces false since it is not marked and the second which says selected playlists and announces true. The odd thing is that this section is dimmed and neither of these radio buttons can be changed. If I tick the box next to the Sync Music heading in order to hopefully review my playlists marked for syncing, I get a question along the lines of are you sure you want to remove existing music from this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library? I don't ever remember iTunes behaving like this and before proceeding with the Sync music action, I wanted to run this by folks here for comments. I guess Apple is trying to protect those who are connecting their devices containing content from sources other than the connected computer in order to warn them that performing a sync will delete that content. I'm more than a bit confused with this since I would think such an action would be an exception rather than the rule and this seems confusing to those of us who simply have upgraded our iOS and iTunes and are syncing our iPhones as we've always done. It sort of feels as if I'm having to start the process over to sync my existing playlists with my iPhone in the iOS 11 world. I'm just a bit nervous about proceeding since my playlists aren't showing in iTunes even though the ones on my iPhone are still the same. And I do have the box checked to manually manage music and videos as has been discussed in the ringtones thread. Thanks for any comments or suggestions. Alan Lemly -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
