If your songs are grayed out

If y'all subscribe to Apple tree Music or iTunes Friction match, you can turn on Sync Library on each of your devices to access your music library across your devices. If you see songs that are grayed out and tin't be played afterwards you lot turn on Sync Library, follow the steps below.

If all or most of your music is grayed out

Sync Library might be turned off or unable to connect to the cyberspace on 1 of your devices. Check the following:

  • If your music library is stored on a figurer, make sure that Sync Library is turned on. Then check that Sync Library is turned on for all of your other devices. Learn how to turn on Sync Library on all of your devices.
  • Make sure that all of your devices are continued to the internet.

If a song is grayed out simply yous can nonetheless play it

Open the Apple Music app on your Mac or iTunes on your PC. Nether Library, click Songs and make sure that there's a bank check next to the vocal.

If you lot don't run into checkboxes next to your songs:

  1. Open the Apple Music app or iTunes.
  2. On your Mac, go to the menu bar and cull Music > Preferences. On your PC, cull iTunes > Preferences.
  3. Click the General tab.
  4. Select "Songs listing checkboxes."
  5. Click OK.
  6. Under Library, click Songs and make sure that there'south a cheque side by side to every song. If in that location isn't, select the box side by side to a song to see a check.

If it'south taking a long fourth dimension to upload your music library

If nigh of your music was imported from sources other than Apple Music, or you lot have a large music library, it might have more fourth dimension for your music library to upload.

Make sure that your computer is authorized and so whatsoever music that y'all previously purchased from the iTunes Shop tin be uploaded. Then follow these steps:

  1. Connect your Mac or PC to the cyberspace.
  2. Open the Apple Music app or iTunes.
  3. On your Mac, brand certain that Sync Library is turned on. On your PC, make sure that iCloud Music Library is turned on.
  4. Keep the Apple Music app or iTunes open until your music library is finished uploading.

If a song is still grayed out after your music library is uploaded, import a new copy of the vocal into your music library. Then in the Apple Music app or iTunes, go to the menu bar and choose File > Library > Update Deject Library.

If a song can't be uploaded with Apple Music or iTunes Match

If you see  next to a vocal, then that song might be ineligible for upload. Learn why.

If a song isn't available in Apple Music

Some songs or albums might be grayed out considering they're not currently available in Apple Music. Here are some reasons why:

  • Artists and content providers might release some songs from an anthology in advance, but non all of them. If you add the entire album to your library, the songs will become bachelor as they're released.
  • Artists and content providers might modify or remove music from the Apple tree Music catalog. Search Apple Music to run across if that song is bachelor under a different proper noun or file. If it is, add the song to your library so it's no longer grayed out.
  • The song might not be bachelor in your country or region and will appear in gray text when you search for information technology in Apple Music.
  • If an explicit song is grayed out, you lot might have restrictions turned on for your device. You can use Screen Time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or Screen Time on your Mac to plough off restrictions. Y'all can also add together the clean version from Apple Music to your library.

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