I recently lost my iPhone 4 so I went and bought a new iPhone 4s. I set up my new phone with the same iTunes ID and password that I have always used. I soon realized that whatever songs I had bought on my old phone were not on my new phone. How do I get those songs back? I thought I had subscribed to the cloud but apparently that didn't include my music? All of my old contacts and pictures showed up on my phone but the only music I could get was what was on my computer. Help please! I have quit a few songs missing!
Old songs not showing up on the new iPhone.
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The iTunes store has a 'Purchased' section that you can use to view and re-download purchased music.
Open up iTunes on your computer and select iTunes Store in the sidebar. In the iTunes Store homepage, click the Purchased link in the Quick Links box on the right:
Once on the Purchased page, select the Music tab on the left and the 'Not on This Computer' tab on the right. Select All Songs in the list on the left and click the Download All button at the bottom of the page.
Once your downloads finish you should have all your music in your library, ready to be synced to your new iPhone.
Try playing the greyed out songs directly on your iPhone. If you cannot do that, do the following.
Ensure that the greyed out songs are indeed playable within your iTunes library (not within the iPhone section of your iTunes library)
Connect your iPhone to your iTunes, navigate to your iPhone section > music, select all greyed out songs and delete them.
Make sure that the "Sync music" and "Entire music library" options are ticked under the "Music" tab and sync your iphone once again with iTunes.
This should resolve the issue.
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Best Answer
I don't believe purchased music is automatically downloaded to a new device, since you might not want all of your music on all of your devices. On your new phone, just go to iTunes Store → More → Purchased → Music and you can re-download everything there.