Transfer Music from iPhone to Computer without iTunes (3 Ways)

Why Transfer Music from iPhone to Computer without iTunes?

You have downloaded quite a few songs on your iPhone so that you can enjoy the music anywhere. And now you want to copy music from iPhone to computer because you want to make a backup for your favorite songs, enjoy the music on computer or you want to share it with your friends.

As a long iPhone user, you know that iTunes only enables you to transfer purchased music from iPhone to computer. Besides, iTunes will not allow you to transfer music from your iPhone to his or her computer because you can only pair your iPhone with one computer. So, for all these reasons, you want to transfer music from iPhone to computer without iTunes.

Fortunately, there are three ways that can help you transfer non-purchased music from iPhone to computer. You can export music from iPhone to computer with one third-party tool or Dropbox. Or if you want to listen to music on computer, there’s a way to transfer music to computer via streaming.

Transfer Music from iPhone to Computer without iTunes but via FoneTool

If you’re going to the no-iTunes way, then you can take the assistance of one third-party tool named FoneTool to better manage your music. It’s one professional iPhone transfer and backup tool for Windows PCs. You can let this tool help you transfer songs between iPhone and computer, between iPhone and another iPhone/iPad. Here are its outstanding features:

★ Easy to Use - Unlike iTunes complicated interface, it has a clear interface and user-friendly design, you can complete the transfer in only a few clicks.
★ Transfer Selected Songs - It also lets you transfer all songs in one click or only transfer the selected songs. Supports both purchased and non-purchased items.
★ Fast Transfer Speed - Its transfer speed is higher than the average speed on the market: 1000 songs can be transferred in only 9 minutes and 13 seconds.
★ Widely Compatible with iOS - It supports all iPhone, iPod, and iPad models and is fully compatible with the latest iOS 16, iPad OS 16.
★ Support most file formats: It helps you transfer MP3, m4a, m4b, m4p,m4r, rm, wav, WMA, MDI, aac, etc. from iPhone to computer.

Download the tool on your computer and follow the steps below to transfer music from iPhone to computer.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer via the USB cable > Enter the passcode on iPhone so that the software can access your device > Click iPhone to PC option.

Step 2. Click the "+" to choose the songs you want to transfer to computer.

Step 3. Choose the songs and click OK.

Step 4. Select the storage path from Transfer Settings > Click the Start Transfer button to copy music from iPhone to computer.

Transfer Music from iPhone to Computer without iTunes but via Dropbox

Cloud storage services allow us to access files on different devices as long as you have logged in with the same account. To transfer music from iPhone to computer, you can first upload songs to the cloud storage on iPhone and then download songs on your computer. Here we take Dropbox as an example.

On your iPhone: Download Dropbox app from App Store > Sign in with your account > Upload needed songs.

On your Computer: Open a browser and go to Dropbox.com > Sign in with your account > Find songs you uploaded before and download them to computer.

Transfer Music from iPhone to PC without iTunes but via Streaming

There’s another tool called Apowersoft Phone Manager that can help you get music from iPhone to computer via streaming. And you should connect your computer and iPhone to the same Wifi network.

Step 1. Download the tool on your computer and launch it.

Step 2. Go to Control Center on iPhone and enable AirPlay.

Step 3. Select your computer and turn on Mirroring.

Step 4. You can play any song on your iPhone and it will automatically be played on your computer as well.

Conclusion

That’s all for how to transfer music from iPhone to computer without iTunes. When you don't want to send songs from iPhone to PC without iTunes, you can use FoneTool, Apowersoft Phone Manager, Dropbox to perform that, But by contrast, FoneTool is the best way. It is the fastest and easiest way. 

Besides, it tegrates with various features allowing you to manage your iPhone data, like adding MP3 to Apple Music on iPhone.