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Boson12 Author

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Question about Manually Syncing Mac and iPhone

I have been syncing my devices manually (with a cable) on my Mac for the past few years, and I have been holding onto many songs that I copied over from a CD (a long time ago). I am NOT an Apple Music subscriber, and I was wondering how syncing would work if I were to make changes on my Mac and my iPhone.

For example, let’s say I remove playlist X at 2:00 PM on my iPhone. I then remove playlist Y on my Mac at 3:00 PM (without manually syncing the iPhone before removing playlist Y, meaning that playlist X is still on the Mac).

What would happen if I synced my Mac with my iPhone at 4:00 PM? Would I simply keep playlist X and have playlist Y removed since the Mac was the device that was last updated/edited before syncing?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Apr 2, 2022 7:05 PM

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muguy

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Posted on Apr 2, 2022 7:31 PM

Sync only goes from the Mac to your iPhone. So long as you still had the playlist selected it would copy. If you removed it from the Mac it would no longer exist.

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