GarageBand for iOS saves songs within the app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you delete the GarageBand app, you'll also delete your songs. In case you ever have to delete and reinstall the app, make sure to back up your songs first. You can back up your songs by uploading them to iCloud, exporting them to iCloud Drive, or copying them to another Apple device using AirDrop.
You can also back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. A backup of your iOS device includes the songs saved within the GarageBand app. Make sure to back up your device so you can access your songs in case you lose, replace, or damage it.
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Upload songs to iCloud
When you upload your songs to iCloud, you can access them and keep them up to date on all your iOS devices. You can upload all your songs at once to iCloud.
- Make sure to turn on iCloud for GarageBand.
- On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap in the Control Bar, then tap My Songs.
On an iPad, tap My Songs in the Control Bar. - Tap Select.
- Tap the songs you want to upload.
- In the Control Bar, tap .
- Tap Upload Songs to iCloud. After your songs upload to iCloud, you'll see them in the My Songs browser with an iCloud icon.
If you delete and reinstall the app or if you get a new device, songs uploaded to iCloud automatically appear in the My Songs browser. To access the songs on a new device, make sure to sign in with your Apple ID.
Export songs to iCloud Drive
Using iCloud Drive, you can access your songs from another iOS device, a Mac, or a PC. You can export one song at a time to iCloud Drive.
- Make sure to set up iCloud Drive on your devices.
- On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap in the Control Bar, then tap My Songs.
On an iPad, tap My Songs in the Control Bar. - Tap Select.
- Tap the song you want to back up.
- Tap .
- In the Share dialog, tap iCloud Drive.
- Tap Project.
- Browse to the location where you want to save the song.
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After reinstalling GarageBand or getting a new device, you can import a song from iCloud Drive to GarageBand on your device.
- On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap in the Control Bar, then tap My Songs.
On an iPad, tap My Songs in the Control Bar. - Tap , then tap Import from iCloud Drive.
- In the iCloud Drive dialog, locate and tap the song you want to import.
The GarageBand songs you keep in iCloud use your iCloud storage. When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5 GB of free storage. If you use all your iCloud storage, you can buy more. Or you can use AirDrop to back up your songs to another device.
Back up songs using AirDrop
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To back up your songs to another Apple device, you can use AirDrop. AirDrop makes a copy of the song on another Apple device.
- Make sure to turn on AirDrop on your Mac and your iOS device.
- On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap in the Control Bar, then tap My Songs.
On an iPad, tap My Songs in the Control Bar. - Tap Select.
- Tap the song you want to back up.
- Tap .
- Tap the name of the AirDrop user or Apple device you want to send the file to.
- Tap Project. AirDrop copies the song to the following locations:
- On a Mac, the song is saved to the Downloads folder.
- On an iOS device, the song opens in GarageBand. If GarageBand isn’t installed on that device, you can choose to get the app or save the song to iCloud Drive.
Download Garageband Songs
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- Use iCloud with GarageBand on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
- Use iCloud Drive.
- Use AirDrop with iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
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Best Garageband Songs
- GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Gather your friends to play and record like a real band with Jam Session.* Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share in email or send directly to Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud.
Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument
• Play dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects
• Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using Smart Strings
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
• Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords
• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses, using upright, electric, and synth sounds
• Create and use custom chords for any Smart Instrument
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums
Start a Jam Session with your friends
• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends*
• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the bandleader
• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice
• Tap Record at any time to capture your band’s best moments
• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they can be mixed as a song and shared
Create a song anywhere you go
• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
•Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
•Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume —solo or mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo
•Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song
•Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge
Share your songs
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Create custom ringtones and alerts for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch**
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Email songs right from GarageBand (AAC)
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC (AAC or AIFF uncompressed)
• Send a multitrack project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand or Logic Pro to continue refining your song
• Send GarageBand songs directly to iMovie for iOS to add a custom soundtrack for your video