Many iPhone XR, XS Max user on iOS 12.2 are
facing issue while listening Applie Music songs on their iPhone, iPad and other
Apple device. When the user turned on iPhone to listen to
music, and found that about 40% of the songs in iTunes library are grayed out.
When you try to play songs in iPhone it gives error message "This song
is not currently available in your country or region". It is not
necessary that all songs are from iTunes purchased but even for CD burned or
copied song which are owned songs by the users are unable to play on iPhone and
gives the error : “This song is not currently available in your country
or region”.
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| This song is not currently available in your country or region : Apple Music | pic Apple.com |
There
is no particular pattern on which this is happening to particular songs, the
songs not playing iPhone/iTunes and are grayed out, some of them are from
iTunes purchases. Even iTunes purchases songs are giving error “This song is
not currently available in your country or region.” The iPhone error occurs at
any time even if you are not traveling, not changing countries and haven't made
any changes to iTunes.
The
grayed out songs are songs whose details are modified recently. You might have
not modified each songs separately but the playlist which have these songs
added. There is surely something buggy in iTunes or iOS 12.2 which is causing
songs to grayed out and give error message “This song is not currently
available in your country or region.”
Why iPhone is giving error on Apple Music- This song is not currently available in your country or region.
Songs
in iPhone getting grayed out can be due to tracks on an older playlist may have
been edited (possibly only the meta data or lyrics text) to a new version on
Apple Music, thereby invalidating the old version. You can delete the old track
from the list and add the new version from Search to update your playlist.
Tracks
that were once available on Apple music may have been retracted by the artist
or their record company, temporarily or permanently, for all regions or for
selected regions. The availability of tracks can change over time. And when
this happens you likely to get these issues.
How to fix iPhone Apple music songs grayed out with error message “This song is not currently available in your country or region.” on iPhone XR/XS Max/ 8/7/6s Plus on iOS 12.2
Fix 1 : Reset iTunes Warning on Computer connection
If you
are facing song becoming grayed out from iPhone, to fix that you should connect
to computer (With iTunes ) and when you connect your phone to your computer
make sure to hit the reset warnings (when you are about to sync
you music) and you should be good and all songs should come to normal state. IF you do not get any such warning you can do
this manually from:
Go to -> ITunes
Preferences -> Advanced tab -> reset warnings.
Fix 2: Resync the songs on iTunes
The iPhone
songs grayed out issue occurred I synced iphone to iTunes backup, so it is
possible that the computer backup is “faulty”. To fix that
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Delete all my music off the phone.
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Added everything back in iTunes.
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Sync the iPhone to iTunes songs
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Now all songs should play well. This should fix the
problem.
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If still not works, delete all songs from iTunes
as well and resync again
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Please note if you try to sync by wifi it may
not work. It is recommended to use physical cable.
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Comments
For good measure, i also Reset Cache and Reset Identifier (which you should do every so often anyway)
It was puzzling - This "not available" error message happened even for AIFF and MP3 files of my digitized 1970s vinyl records.
This is an Apple error, not ours. The burden should not be on us to devise painful work-arounds to fix them.
J. Santiago
Here is how i did it.
1. Connect iPhone8 to iTunes on laptop.
2. Click on "MUSIC", on the "ON MY DEVICE" list on the laptop.
3. On the iPhone8, click on "MUSIC", then, "LIBRARY", then, "SONGS". (so now you are looking a two listings of all your music, one on the iPhone8, (I don't know if it works on other iPhones, you could try it), and one on the laptop).
4. As you scroll down your music list on the laptop, you will see a circle of dots on the left of the first song that will not play on the iPhone8.
5. on the iPhone8, find the same song, (as you have just identified on the laptop), and tap it, as if to play it. It will grey out in a second or two. If youn tap it again, it will give the horrible message, "this song is not currently available in your country or region", but you don't need to tap it a second time.
6. Find the next song, (with the ring of dots), on the laptop, then find it on the iPhone8 and tap it once. (if you acccidently tap it a second time, just confirm you read the message and the message will go away leaving the song greyed out. You now have two songs greyed out. Repeat the sequence until you have 10 or 20, (ar all of) the greyed out songs. (I did it in 10 or 20 groups).
7. On the laptop, click on the word "SYNC", and wait a few moments. You will see some activity on the laptop page. When it is finished, all the greyed out songs are now available on the iPhone.
8. Repeat the procedure until all the sons in your collection are available on the iPhone8, ot until you run out of patience, in which case you just leave it for an hour, a day, aweek, and start over, until it's all done.
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IF anyone wants to copy, or improve on my explanation, or simplify it, please feel free to do so, so we can help other victims of this annoying message to get back to enjoying their music.
Allan C. Grieve.
I have tried all the on-line 'fixes' but none of them worked completely. Some of them worked a little bit. Then I stumbled on a full fix. It is a bit convoluted, and wearying, but, if you value your music as much as I do, it will be worth the patience, and effort.
Here is how I did it.
1. Connect iPhone8 to iTunes on laptop.
2. Click on "MUSIC", on the "ON MY DEVICE" list on the laptop.
3. On the iPhone8, click on "MUSIC", then, "LIBRARY", then, "SONGS". (so now you are looking a two listings of all your music, one on the iPhone8, (I don't know if it works on other iPhones, you could try it), and one on the laptop.
4. As you scroll down your music list on the laptop, you will see a circle of dots on the left of the first song that will not play on the iPhone8.
5. on the iPhone8, find the same song, (as you have just identified on the laptop), and tap it, as if to play it. It will grey out in a second or two. If you tap it again, it will give the horrible message, "this song is not currently available in your country or region", but you don't need to tap it a second time.
6. Find the next song, (with the ring of dots), on the laptop, then find it on the iPhone8 and tap it once. (if you acccidently tap it a second time, just confirm you read the message and the message will go away leaving the song greyed out. You now have two songs greyed out. Repeat the sequence until you have 10 or 20, (ar all of) the greyed out songs. (I did it in 10 or 20 groups).
7. On the laptop, click on the word "SYNC", and wait a few moments. You will see some activity on the laptop page. When it is finished, all the greyed out songs are now available on the iPhone8.
8. Repeat the procedure until all the songs in your collection are available on the iPhone8, or until you run out of patience, in which case you just leave it for an hour, a day, a week, and start over, until it's all done.
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IF anyone wants to copy, or improve on my explanation, or simplify it, please feel free to do so, so we can help other victims of this annoying message to get back to enjoying their music.
Allan. C. Grieve.