“After you update to the new OS, if you load the iPod app, you may see a message stating that your currently have ‘No Content’ on the device,” MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch.
“The way to fix it is apparently to plug your iPhone back into your computer, play a song from the iPhone on your computer, and then sync,” Siegler reports. “The process is very quick because it doesn’t actually have to transfer all that music again, it just makes it recognize that it’s already there.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This happened to our iPhone 4 units after updating to iOS 4.2.1 and the fix above worked as described. The media is still there on your iOS device, this just seems to jog things. It’s much faster than transferring all of your media again.
No update fix from Apple on this? Seems they could fix it..
Apple has been getting quite sloppy lately. Hopefully they start focusing resources on QAing releases, and stop rushing them out before they are ready. Any amount of basic testing of releases should have caught this issue.
This happen to both me and my daughter. Just connected the phone to computer and ran another sync in iTunes and all is well.
I always sync before and after an update. And for the iPad you need to to get iWork updates which won’t come over until you have 4.2.1
Apple is not getting sloppy with QC, I updated an iPad, two iPhones (4 and 3G) and a Touch with no errors although it took 3 hours (mostly downloading time)
I saw the same thing on 2 of my 3GS phones, but all I did was sync (didn’t play a song first). All it did was update the phone with a song or 2 that it didn’t already have… didn’t copy everything cause it was already there.
Thanks. Worked like a charm.
Has anyone else had a problem moving or deleting apps on ios 4.2? There seems to be some sort of delay.
It messed up playback tho — songs don’t play in order anymore!
I just synced a new playlist and everything came back, in the About page, you can see that all the data is there..
No pansy ass whining from me.
Didn’t happen on my 3GS.
My photos are gone. When I open the app, I get a message, ‘rebuilding library’ and then the app quits.
Surprisingly sloppy.
Strange. I didn’t have any problems with mine.
I updated two iPhone 4’s and an iPad and had no problems at all. Did at first think something was wrong as I had Airplay for films and music but not for photos but that appeared once I had updated the ATV. I’m one very happy little bunny now!!
Happened on my 3G. I just resynced, and all was well. I didn’t play any music first; I wonder if that is necessary.
No problem on my $10 a month Motorola phone, if it gets busted I just toss it and pay $19.95 for another one.
I have a lot of open wifi locations near me, so all the “smartness” is on my netbook.
My screen is glossy now. Damn!
I just downgraded back to 4.1…
At the moment it is impossible to write in French, as all accents on “e” are missing. I’m an Apple user since 1992 and agree that they start to get sloppy. Microsoftian if you like. And we are now Beta testers…
I’m having the same problem on my iPhone 4. I would like to see a solution that doesn’t require syncing since I’m on the road and my laptop is not my syncing computer. It will want to wipe the phone and associate it with that machine rather than my home computer.
Is there a solution that doesn’t require syncing?
@Spark,
LMAOAGTTSTBAO!!!!
Seriously though, this is just sloppy and unacceptable on Apple’s part. Come on, now!
Updated, got “No Content”, look around the web and someone said “Sync it” I did and it worked. I did not need to play any music before hand. Updated my wife’s iPhone 4 and synced it first thing and all was well.
Update + Sync. That’s all.
Though, it would be nice if I this didn’t happen at all. Just saying.
This happened to my iPad after a previous iOS update, and again after the 4.2.1 update. Scary at first to see 40GB+ of video simply vanish, but a simple and quick re-sync brought everything back. Does make me wonder though how Apple missed this little glitch in their pre-release testing…
This happened to me, and reconnecting the iPhone to iTunes and playing a song helped correct it. I didn’t have to re-sync it, as I updated my iPhone on my MacBook, but my iPhone 4 is tied to my iMac at home (where I manage my library). You can update an iPhone on any Mac, even if you don’t use that Mac to sync and back-up.
After playing a song from the music list (in iTunes) and disconnecting the iPhone, all my media reappeared in the iPod app. Though I did notice some of the TV shows got jumbled – some titles were mixed in with other titles.