Comments on: Fix for “No Content” on iPhone & iPod after iOS 4.2.1 update

By: chewi

chewi — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:23:58 +0000

language switch didn’t work for me , but the default setting for the device in itunes..devices on the host Pc was set to disabled, switched that and whoopy-do.
Dont like the itunes 11.0.2.26. can I get the old one back thatI had about a year ago?

By: twiggs66

twiggs66 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:29:15 +0000

if you do the second suggestion, for me my music finally did come up after awhile (the sync emblem was showing in my notifications on my ipod) but if i selected a song it skipped through the entire playlist, each one popped up real quick one right after the other. after the sync emblem went away i was able to play it, just an fyi for anyone who had that problem, dont do anything and wait for it to get done syncing

By: Aisilng Deasy

Aisilng Deasy — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:50:12 +0000

My problem is that it will only sync one song from my entire library and none of the solutions above will work for me. I do still have my nano, but I just spent over €200 o this Ipod touch and would like it to work. Can anyone help me?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:05:05 +0000

Extremely disappointed in this ipod touch. And in Apple. Shame on you. Reading through this thread and seeing how long this has been a problem, it’s disgraceful that customers are subjected to this amount of frustration. Changing the language? Really? That didn’t work. And neither did the 2nd and 3rd and 4th…tried just about every suggestion in this thread b4 randomly hitting on the right combination of steps, not sure I’ll even remember what finally worked…piece of crap…

By: Sparky

Sparky — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:37:50 +0000

I had the same problem and did the following:

In iTunes select iPod device -> Music. Instead of Entire Music Library, I selected Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Then Apply. When that completed I went back to Entire Music Library. Then Apply. My audio and video content had all come back.

By: ab

ab — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:17:44 +0000

Really EF’n disappointed that this is the 3rd time this has happened to my ipod touch 4th gen since the release of ios6. I’m now resyncing over 4000 songs because I too got the no content thing. The odd thing was, right before this occured, in iTunes a message popped up stating something like ‘”settings changed on *ipod touch name* would you like to sync”

Since I hadn’t made any changes, I chose no or cancel (can’t quite recall the wording). And oddly, Itunes shows my Ipod having all my music, the sync box is checked as well as playlists I sync daily. I try syncing, the summary bar moves up and at the end drops down? wtf?

I just uncheked the sync in music, hit the sync button to truly remove the music then recheck the box and sync again. This is where I’m not, syncing 4K songs!

I swear, Apple is on the decline. I never had so many problems with this company as I’ve had in the 12mos since SJ passed.

Had I known this tip in advance I would have tried it. But I hope I never have to go through this again!

By: Jazz

Jazz — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:18:50 +0000

Thanks very much, worked perfectly! I nearly had a heart attack when I thought I had lost all of my music, thank you to the people who posted this.

By: Ada

Ada — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:42:56 +0000

Unfortunately music is still “no content” after changing the language and playing a song from my Device on iTunes. Also, I regret buying an iphone. I am trying to find some other solutions now.

By: Jerlynnnnn

Jerlynnnnn — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:28:32 +0000

Heheheheh, it worked ! Thankyou so much xD

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:00:26 +0000

Apple, kiss my a$$

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:20:02 +0000

I was going to play my music today on my Iphone. I also have “No Content.” This is ridiculous. I have many friends that do not want an IPhone because of having to use Itunes. I am beginning to agree with them. All my music is on my PC in Itunes. I have synched many times – nothing!! WHAT A HASSLE!!

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:17:27 +0000

Tried the solutions above and more. Tried restoring the iPod and backing it up, restoring and not using a back up, tried combining the two methods above and nada. Nothing’s working… hmmm…

By: AR

AR — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:27:19 +0000

I have a itouch 5.1 and none of those fixes worked. After the update, my music showed up in iTunes but not on my device. After trying all of the above I eventually plugged in my iTouch. After it synced, on the iTunes page I dragged the music folder into my iTouch/device folder. All the music copied (it took awhile) and synced successfully to my iTouch. I had to repeat the same steps with my playlist folders to have them show. I don’t know if it will automatically update, but at least I have my music back and it will play albums, etc.

By: Sham

Sham — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:04:05 +0000

Did you figure it out? Nothing, serously, is helping. It says there are 0 songs on the ipod. Really annoying!!

By: Sham

Sham — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:00:10 +0000

I have the same problem as you! Upgraded my itunes and it whiped out everything from my ipod. I’ve tried every single trick but nothing is working. Have tried to figure this out the whole day. Can’t exacetly throw away my Ipod Touch because Apple can’t figure out how to make thing work. It also says that I have 0 songs. I hope someone has a solution!