

Step 4: Select the files you want to transfer to Mac. Step 3: Click on the phone icon located on the upper left side of the iTunes window to check your files on your iPhone. iTunes will detect your iPhone device automatically. You don't have to pull all your store content back from the cloud, although it is convenient - USB is much more effective if you have a data cap to worry about!Įdit: you also don't have to use iCloud really - if you back up to the cloud it will store your phone settings and contacts, calendars etc, but not your music or apps, since those are already in the cloud. Step 1: Connect your iPhone to Mac with a USB cable. Transfer this by hand over ethernet or via a USB stick or something. You just need to move across any manually ripped music from whatever machine you have it on (your old eMac?). Now each device has everything you bought from iTunes on the iMac. When it has done that, do the same right click action and select "back up".

Then select "transfer purchases" and it will move all of your purchased apps and music from each device onto your iMac. Click the 'General' tab and check 'Sync Library.' Then click 'OK' to confirm. On your iPhone, go to 'Settings' > 'Music' and turn on 'Sync Library.' Step 2. Instead cancel any auto sync that it tries to do and then right click on the device in the iTunes sidebar (if you're on the latest iTunes, turn the sidebar back on for this (View > Show Sidebar), or command+option+s. To sync music from iPhone to Mac via Apple Music: Step 1. Make sure you have logged into the store in iTunes on the new machine with the Apple ID you use with your devices.Ĭonnect up each iDevice in turn but *do not* sync them yet.
