GarageBand for iOS: Backing up your songs

When you create songs with GarageBand for iOS, your songs are saved within the app. Deleting the GarageBand for iOS app from your iOS device will also delete your songs. Although an alert will inform you about your files being deleted, it is a good practice to back up your songs when possible.

You can back up your songs by sending them to iTunes.

Send a GarageBand for iOS song to iTunes

  1. Tap the My Songs button.
  2. iPad: iPhone and iPod touch:
  3. Tap the Export Song button:  
  4. Tap the "iTunes" button.
  5. iPad: iPhone and iPod touch:
  6. Tap GarageBand.
  7. iPad: iPhone and iPod touch:

    The next time you sync your mobile device, the exported song appears in the GarageBand Documents list under File Sharing in iTunes:


    Note: Send the song as a GarageBand song if you want to open it with GarageBand on a mobile device or a Mac. For information on sending songs to iTunes for Windows, seethis article.

  8. You can now do one of the following to access the song outside of iTunes:
    • Drag the song from the GarageBand Documents list to the Finder.
    • Click "Save to," navigate to the location where you want to save the song, then click Save.

For more information on file sharing see this article.

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