Sync iPhone

You either purchased a new computer, reinstalled your system or just reinstalled iTunes

Now, if you connect your iPhone to your Computer, you may lose all your iPhone data, because synchronizing an iPhone with an empty iTunes library can erase its whole contents

There are manual ways to Copy iPhone
songs to a Computer and then import
them to iTunes

Unfortunately, this does not preserve what makes your iPhone unique and priceless: all the personal settings you've built over time:

• Playlists
• Ratings
• Play counts
• Album artwork
• Date last played
• Date last skipped
• Date added
• Skipped count
• Default volume
• Start time
• Stop time
• Artist
• Album
• Podcasts & subscriptions
• Audiobooks
• Videos
• Contacts
• Games
• Apps
• Skip when shuffling
• Remember playback position
• Episode ID
• Episode number
• Season number
• Etc...

That's a lot of precious stuff !

Now, to Rebuild iTunes based on your iPhone including all your personal settings, you need a third party program

• Start by getting it from here
• Install it
• Open the program with the shortcut on your Desktop
• Just hit the "Start Backup" button

After a couple of minutes, all your iPhone data are back in iTunes !

From now on, you can sync your iPhone with iTunes again, just the way you always did !

Notes & possible issues

• This procedure will also Transfer purchased songs from iPhone to iTunes
• It will Update iTunes Library based on iPhone, which means if some of your songs are already in iTunes, it will skip them and not create duplicates
• The above procedure is based on the automatic mode ( recommended )

For more advanced users, this program offers all expectable fine-tuning options

Just hit the "Manual Backup" button and you get access to a full range of advanced settings:

• Filter the elements you wish to transfer by:
• Song
• Playlist
• Artist
• Album
• Genre
• Etc...
• Customize the way your songs are imported to both your Computer and iTunes:
• Automatic song renaming options based on combinations of Artist, Album, Name,...
• Folder / sub-folder structure creation based on Artists, Albums,...
• Metadata ( personal settings ) to be imported or not: Ratings, Play counts, Date last played ( see full list above )
• Etc...

To discover How to Transfer songs from iPhone to Computer, please refer to our dedicated tutorial

Notes & possible issues

• This solution works for both Mac and PC