How To Transfer Music From Computer To iPhone [2024]

Mark Harwood
4 min readFeb 15, 2024

Now, if you had an iMac or a MacBook, this task would be super simple as you could just use iTunes. This would be the official way if you were solely using Apple devices, but what if you need to know How To Transfer Music From Computer To iPhone when you’re using a Windows machine?

Lets find out how!

I’ve also wrote this post on my website in case you prefer reading over there!

The Basics

We’ll discuss several different methods for getting music from your computer to your iPhone, so it’s important to understand the basics. You obviously need a computer, and iPhone and a compatible USB cable. More recent iPhones use USB C however, in general, iPhones use the lightning port.

The lightning port is a proprietary connector developed by Apple themselves. First introduced in 2012 with the iPhone 5, this connector replaced the huge 30 pin dock connector.

How To Transfer Music From Computer To iPhone

iTunes???

So as it turns out iTunes is also available on Windows computers. Although it does have it’s limitations. For example, you might find that it overwrites the existing music collection on your iPhone. You are also limited to a single iTunes

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Mark Harwood

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