{"id":13101,"date":"2010-11-23T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/ios-42-bug-may-make-your-music-disappear\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:07:56","slug":"ios-42-bug-may-make-your-music-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-42-bug-may-make-your-music-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 4.2 bug may make your music disappear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/ios4bugfix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>bug<\/strong> has appeared for some after updating their iPhone to <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/ios-42-available-today-apple\/\"><strong>iOS 4.2<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <strong>iPod libraries disappear! <\/strong>Considering how much music you might be storing on your phone, that could be a major pain. However, it doesn&#8217;t affect all iPhones and, better still, people on the <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/message.jspa?messageID=12627544#12627544\"><strong>Apple forums<\/strong><\/a> have already come up with a fix.<\/p>\n<p>If you open the iPod on your iPhone and it claims there is no content:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Connect it<\/strong> to a computer with <strong>iTunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> <strong>Play a song<\/strong> from the iPhone in iTunes<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> <strong>Eject and restart<\/strong> the iPhone<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> <strong>Open your iPod library<\/strong> again, and you will see a message about updating the library, after which your media will be back!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do this on my personal Mac, but an office PC. You may feel safer using the computer you sync your iPhone with! It&#8217;s a very weird bug and, coming so soon after the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/alternatives-to-the-iphone-alarm-bug\/\"><strong>daylight saving alarm bug<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> it&#8217;s been an unusual experience for Apple users, who aren&#8217;t used to this unreliability at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug has appeared for some after updating their iPhone to iOS 4.2 &#8211; iPod libraries disappear! Considering how much music you might be storing on your phone, that could be a major pain. However, it doesn&#8217;t affect all iPhones and, better still, people on the Apple forums have already come up with a fix. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-42-bug-may-make-your-music-disappear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iOS 4.2 bug may make your music disappear!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-13101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334579,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101\/revisions\/334579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=13101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}