Add Music to iPhone - Easy Way to Add New Music to iPhone

Updated Apr 18,2018 | by Admin

You have downloaded lots of your favorite music from the internet and are looking for ways to add them to your iPhone for offline listening. But it is not easy to add music to iPhone unless you get the tricks or ways. The first way you can follow is using iTunes. Although there might be some inconvenience of using iTunes for music transfer, as a traditional way, it’s still worth a try. Also, you can try a new way without iTunes to add music to iPhone easily and quickly.   

Part 1: How to Add Music to iPhone with iTunes

Step 1 Download iTunes.

Go to apple.com, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “iTunes”. In the following page, click the blue “Download” button. Then iTunes begins to download. 

Step 2 Add downloaded music to iTunes

Launch iTunes and connect the iPhone to your computer with an authentic USB cable. When you make sure you are in the “Music Library”, go to “File > Add File to Library”. Then choose the songs’ location and select those you want to add to iPhone.

Step 3 Add Music to iPhone

In the left pane, locate the “On My Device” section. Click Music and you will see a list of songs on your iPhone on the panel. Click “Autofill” in the right bottom and then you successfully add all the music in Library to your iPhone. 

As many people complain about iTunes’ restrictive nature, bloated size, and slow loading time, you may need to try an easy-to-use tool to transfer songs from computer to iPhone. In the nest part, I’d like to recommend you powerful third-party software – IOTransfer. 

Part 2: Easy Way to Add New Music to iPhone

IOTransfer is a great iTunes alternative that will help you to manage and transfer media between iPhone and computer. Follow the steps below and see how to add new music to iPhone in an easier way than iTunes.

Step 1 Free download and install IOTransfer on your PC. It now works in windows 7/8/10, supports iOS 8 and later.

Step 2 Plug the iPhone to your PC via a USB cable. Wait until the iPhone gets recognized. Then tap “Trust” if it asks for the permission on the iPhone screen.

Step 3 In the left pane on the “MANAGE” tab, click on “Music” and you’ll see a list of existing songs on the iPhone.

Step 4 Click on “Import” option and a file explorer pops up.

Step 5 Select music files you’d like to add to the iPhone in the pop-up window. Later, click on “Open”. In this way, you can add all the new songs to iPhone at one time. 

Note: IOTransfer trial version only allows users to transfer 20 files at most per day, but luckily, you can upgrade to Pro to remove this limitation.

Finally, you have learned two ways on how to add music to iPhone including the traditional way –using iTunes and a new and easy way –using IOTransfer. If you want to transfer music back and forth without any hassle, you need to try IOTransfer.  With it, you can not only add new music to iPhone but also download videos from YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram as well as manage iPhone photos, videos, contacts, etc.

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