Save Free Music to iPhone - Transfer Free Music to iPhone without iTunes

Updated Jul 06,2018 | by Bennie

Do you want to learn how to save free music to iPhone without using iTunes? As we know that there are quite a few limitations when using iTunes to transfer music to iPhone, such as, iTunes can only transfer purchased music, but cannot transfer free music, and can’t transfer only one song at a time. What if you want to save free music to your iPhone? Or what if you want to transfer only several music (not the whole playlist or library)? Luckily, there are several feasible and free methods to transfer free music to your iPhone, iPad, iPod without using iTunes.

Quick summary:

1. Transfer free music from computer to iPhone 

2. Save free music from YouTube to iPhone

3. Other Tips to download free music to iPhone without iTunes

Method 1: Transfer Free Music from Computer to iPhone without iTunes

You may already have some favorite music stored on your computer. On this occasion, you can directly transfer the songs from your computer to your iPhone via a transfer tool. IOTransfer is a good choice. It is a simple yet effective iPhone/iPad/iPod file transfer and management tool, as well as a powerful video downloader and converter. With its 1-click transfer solution, you can easily transfer music, photos, videos, and contacts between your iOS devices and PC.

Let’s start the quick guide of transferring music from computer to iPhone.

Step 1: Free download and install IOTransfer. Then connect your iPhone to your computer via a USB cable (IOTransfer will detect your iPhone automatically).

Step 2: Go to MANAGE tab, click Music, click Import, choose the music from your computer. Then the music will be imported to your iPhone quickly. The following two pictures are for your reference.

The transfer is very fast. After it finishes, you can see the music in the Music list. Then you can go to your iPhone to listen to them.

Method 2: Save Free Music from YouTube to iPhone

There are lots of high quality songs in YouTube. You may be tired of going to YouTube all the time to listen to them. So what do you do? You can save music from YouTube directly to your iPhone and enjoy them anytime anywhere. Again, IOTransfer can do it for you.

Step 1:Free download and install IOTransfer. Then connect your iPhone to your computer via a USB cable. If you already install it from the method 1, you can skip this step.

Step 2:Go to YouTube and search the songs you like. Copy the URL from the address bar. You can refer to the following picture.

Step 3: Go back to IOTransfer, click VIDEOS tab, paste the URL into the box of URL, check the option “Automatically transfer the downloaded videos into your iOS device”, and click Download button. Then it will start downloading the music you choose from YouTube. The following picture is for your reference.

Method 3: Other Ways to Transfer Free Music to iPhone without iTunes

Here are some other tips for downloading free music to your iPhone without iTunes.

The first way: save music to iPhone via Dropbox

Dropbox may usually be associated with documents, however, music files can also be stored. So you can use Dropbox to download music to your iPhone. 

Step 1: Sign up or login to your Dropbox.

Step 2: Upload the music to Dropbox. 

Step 3: After the music have been added, use Dropbox iOS app to play them on your iPhone.

The second way: download music to iPhone via Google Play Music Cloud Service

When it comes to Google Play Music, you may think it is only for Android device. Actually Google Play Music is one of the free and big-name cloud service Apps that allow uploading up to 50,000 songs for free. Once you have uploaded your favorite music to the cloud, you can enjoy them on your iPhone when you are either online or offline.

Brief steps: Install web App > choose the target music > upload to cloud > you will have your music library. Then you can listen to them on your iPhone.

After learning so many ways of transferring free music to iPhone without iTunes, now it’s your turn to have a try.

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