How to Recover Deleted Music on iPhone with 3 Free Methods

Updated Jan 29,2019 | by Lane

As we all know, iPhone offers a good quality of audio. So many people save a variety of music on their iPhone and listen to the music anywhere. But there are chances that you delete some music by accident. Is there any possible way to recover deleted music on iPhone? The answer is yes. In this article, we will show you 3 reliable methods to get deleted music from iPhone. 

It's easy to recover iPhone music if you sync iPhone with iTunes regularly. Follow the steps below to recover deleted music on iPhone from iTunes.

Step 1: Open iTunes on your PC and connect your iPhone to PC with a USB cable.

Step 2: Click the iPhone icon and then click Music and Sync Music. 

Step 3: Click Sync and Replace to replace media from iTunes library.

You can re-download purchased music from iTunes store without time limitations to recover deleted songs.  Open iTunes Store app on iPhone, and tap Purchased and choose Music. With your Apple ID, you can find all the songs that you have purchased. Tap Not On This iPhone, then you will see your purchased songs there. Download your missing music again to recover it to your iPhone.

You are able to get deleted music on iPhone from iCloud with your iCloud account if you have backed up the music to iCloud before. But you have to reset your iPhone to factory setting first. 

Step 1: Reset iPhone to factory setting.

Tap Settings, then General and Reset. Choose Reset All Settings. 

Step 2: Restore iPhone music from iCloud backup.

After your iPhone gets to factory reset, you can restore your iPhone from iCloud backup. 

1: After resetting your iPhone, it will restart. Choose your country and follow other directions.

2: Set up your Touch ID and put in a new passcode, then it shows Apps & Data screen. 

3: Select Restore from iCloud Backup and sign in your Apple ID and choose backup to restore. 

Although there are some methods to recover deleted music, it is important for us to back up iPhone music from iPhone to computer regularly. In this way, you do not need to worry about any accident deletion anymore because you can recover deleted music on iPhone from backup easily and accurately. Here is an iPhone transfer software named as IOTransfer which is definitely a great helper to backup music with 1 - click.

Step 1: Download and install IOTransfer to PC by clicking Free Download below. IOTransfer works great in Windows 7/8/8.1/10.

Step 2: Connect iPhone to PC with the USB cable. Launch IOTransfer and you can find all Photos, Music, Videos, Contacts are selected. If you just want to transfer music from iPhone to PC, uncheck others and then click Transfer to PC.

Step 3: All music will be transferred to PC in a few minutes. Click OK to complete the transfer. 

The Bottom Line

In this article, we show 3 free methods to help you deal with the issue of recovering deleted music on iPhone. And it is also necessary for us to backup iPhone music as well as photos, contacts, videos and other important files to computer regularly. 

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