How to Transfer Music from Flash Drive to iPhone/iPad

Many people store their music collections on portable USB flash drives, but how to transfer music from flash drive to iPhone/iPad? To transfer music from a flash drive to an iPhone or iPad, Apple recommends using iTunes; however, before you can sync your music, you'll need to add songs to your iTunes library, and syncing these songs may result in the deletion of existing tracks on your device.

As a result, many users are looking for other simple ways to transfer music from flash drive to iPhone or iPad.Fortunately, this article will show you an easy and safe way to transfer music from a flash drive to your device. Keep reading to learn more.

Part 1. Transfer Music from Flash Drive to iPhone iPad without iTunes

If you want to transfer music from flash drive to iPhone without iTunes, you can rely on one professional iOS data transfer tool - AOMEI FoneBackup to help you. This easy-to-use tool is designed to satisfy your needs.

● It lets you select the songs that you want to transfer.
● It will not erase any song or any other data on the device.
● It supports various music types, you can easily transfer MP3, wav, m4a, etc to iPhone/iPad.
● It also supports iPhone to computer & iPhone to iPhone transfer.

Now free download this tool on computer and follow the steps below to transfer music from flash drive to iPhone or iPad in a few clicks.

Step 1. Launch AOMEI FoneBackup > Plug in your flash drive and iPhone to your computer. (You may need to enter the passcode on iPhone to allow the software to access your device.)

Step 2. On the Home screen, click the Phone Transfer option on the left pan > mouse over the PC to iPhone. Click the Start Transfer button.

Step 3. Click the Music tab > Choose the songs you’d like to add to iPhone > Click Open to continue.

Step 4. Click Start Transfer to transfer music from USBto iPhone.

Then wait for the process to be finished.  When it is completed, you can open the Apple Music app to find the transferred music. 

Also Read: How to Transfer Music from External Hard Drive to iPod >>

Part 2. Transfer Music from Flash Drive to iPhone iPad with iTunes

How to transfer music from a flash drive to my iPhone using iTunes? To transfer music from flash drive to iPhone, below are the detailed steps.

① Add Music to iTunes Library

Step 1. Download and install the latest version of iTunes on your computer.

Step 2. Run iTunes > Plug in your USB flash drive and iPhone.

Step 3. Click the device icon > Go to Summary > Uncheck the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” option and check the option “Manually manage music and videos” > Click Apply to confirm.

Step 4. Click File option > Choose Add File to Library from the drop-down list to add music files to iTunes that you want to move to iPhone.

② Sync Music to iPhone

Step 1. Click Music > Check Sync Music > Choose to sync Entire music library or Selected playlists artists, albums, and genres.

Step 2. Click Apply to sync music to iPhone.

Note✍: If you want to transfer selected songs, you can click the Song from the menu bar > choose Songs > select the song you want to add to iPhone > right-click the song and choose Add to Device > choose your iPhone name to make it.

Conclusion

That’s all for how to transfer music from flash drive to iPhone iPad. As you can see, AOMEI FoneBackup is the best way to transfer MP3, Flac, Wav, and other music files to your iDevices. It will not erase any existing data on your iPhone and iPad. 

In addition, this tool also helps you to transfer videos, photos, contacts, and so on from iPhone/iPad to computer, as well as from PC to iPhone iPad.