(47 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)Do you wish to back up your music because you are running out of memory on your iPhone? Is your PC almost out of free space too? You can back up all your songs to an external hard drive using CopyTrans hassle-free! This guide explains how to put music on a flash drive from iPhone in a few easy steps.
Let’s back up your music to an external hard drive:
How to put music on a USB
All tracks from iPhone
You can download music to flash drive from iPhone in a few effortless steps with CopyTrans.
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Connect the flash drive or external hard disk to the PC.
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Download CopyTrans from the page below: Download CopyTrans now
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Install the program. If you need help installing CopyTrans, please refer to the installation guide.
- Run CopyTrans and connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod.
- To transfer all songs from iPhone to a USB drive, choose Manual Backup.
- Navigate to your external hard drive and click “OK” to start the transfer.
- Wait until the process is completed and enjoy your music backed up to an external drive!
Advantages of CopyTrans:
✅ Transfers all or selected songs from iPhone to USB and keeps the structure intact;
✅ Manages songs, videos, TV shows, audiobooks, and podcasts;
✅ Saves track data, artworks, and playlists;
✅ Lets you change the library structure before downloading.
How to download music to flash drive
Selected tracks from iPhone
CopyTrans also lets you partially transfer songs to the destination of your choice
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Start CopyTrans and connect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod to the PC. Click on the “Classic mode” option at the bottom-left corner.
Classic mode displays all the device tracks and playlists.
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Choose “Manual backup” from the top of the window:
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Next, select the songs you wish to back up by clicking on the box next to each track. To select all tracks, including voice memos* and videos, click the box next to your iPhone name under the “Playlists” pane. If you want to only backup music, choose Music under the “Categories” pane, then select the songs:
*Starting from iOS 15, Apple has introduced restrictions that block access to local voice memos. It is no longer possible to transfer voice memos to PC via iTunes.
It also impacts some features of CopyTrans programs.
We have worked out a few great solutions for you to transfer voice memos to PC depending on the iOS version of your device.
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After this, select the backup to Folder:
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Choose the USB drive by clicking on the Blue pencil symbol:
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Select the external drive (in our case, this was flash drive G:). Click OK:
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You can customize the order of folders in your backup by your preferences.
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If you prefer keeping all the tracks from a single list in one folder without creating new subfolders, leave the relevant fields empty.
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After you have adjusted your backup settings, click OK and start the backup.
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Let the backup finish.
How to download music to a USB
YouTube video guide
That’s all. Now you know how to put music on a flash drive quickly from your iPhone using CopyTrans!
The iPhone music is copied to the selected external USB drive. 
