Used to be, I bought music in iTunes and then sync'ed it to my phone. If I didn't have enough space on the phone, I'd only sync certain playlists. Then I always had the music on my phone, even if in airplane mode or off wifi. Now I do that but it doesn't sync all the music. Apparently I have to go to each playlist on my phone and click 'make available off line'. This is tedious as I have numerous playlists. (But it is not all my music that is in iTunes, because I don't have the space on the phone.) So if I must do both, I must consult the list of playlists that have been sync'd, open each one on the iPhone and click 'make available offline'.
I am often not on Wi-Fi, for instance if I'm driving or taking a walk or on an airplane. Why should most of my music cease to be available? This is music I purchased. Why is there an implicit assumption that we are always on Wi-Fi?
Question 1: What is the point of having both 'sync' and 'make available offline'?
Question 2: Is there any way to just use 'sync' and have the music behave as before the advent of iCloud, ie. be available on my phone regardless of whether I have Wi-Fi?
Best Answer
To answer question 1: I assume part of the reason for this is that 'sync' can be used to put music on your phone from iTunes that was not purchased through iTunes. I have a lot of music from CDs, some of which are not available in iTunes, that I can put on my phone this way.
To answer question 2: This works for me...what versions of iOS and iTunes are you using? Before telling it to 'sync,' did you select specific music?