Chapter 6: ipod, Getting music, video, and more, 71 getting music, video, and more – Apple iPhone OS 3.1 User Manual

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iPhone syncs with iTunes on your computer to get songs, videos, and other content
you’ve collected in your iTunes library. For information about adding music and other
media to your iTunes library, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.

Getting Music, Video, and More

To get music, video, and other content onto iPhone, you can set up iTunes on your
computer to automatically sync content in your library, or you can manually manage
the media you put on iPhone.

Syncing Content from iTunes

You can transfer music, video, and more onto iPhone by syncing content from iTunes.
You can sync all of your media, or you can select specific songs, videos, podcasts, and
iTunes U collections.

Set iTunes to sync iPod content:

1

Connect iPhone to your computer.

2

In iTunes, select iPhone in the sidebar.

3

On the Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, and iTunes U tabs, select the content you

want to sync to iPhone. For example, you could set iTunes to sync selected music
playlists and the three most recent episodes of your favorite video podcast.

4

Click Apply.

To set iTunes to sync iPod content and other info automatically, click the Summary tab
and select “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected.”

Important:

If you delete an item from iTunes, it will also be deleted from iPhone the

next time you sync.

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