How to Fix i. Tunes When Its Not Syncing with i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod Touchi. OS is obviously going in the direction of not needing i. Tunes at all, but in the meantime you still need to sync an i. Play Windows Media files. Mac using Quicktime or a web browser. MacOS High Sierra brings new forwardlooking technologies and enhanced features to your Mac. PowerMacG4. com how to upgrade your Apple Power Mac G4. Overclock your G4. Links to purchase PowerMac G4 systems. Install a Pioneer SuperDrive. G4 PowerMac Resources. Video Player For Mac Os X 10.6.8' title='Video Player For Mac Os X 10.6.8' />Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod touch to copy over music libraries, videos, media, perform local backups, apps, and more. Typically i. Tunes will sync with an i. OS device without incident, but sometimes things go awry, and i. Tunes just wont sync at all. If you find yourself in that frustrating situation, here is what you can do to fix it and get the i. Phone, i. Pod, or i. Pad syncing with i. Tunes on a Mac or PC again. Were going to cover a variety of troubleshooting tricks to fix the syncing problem here, try each in descending order until the problem is resolved. Do note this guide is aimed at resolving actual syncing problems ie the transfer of data between i. Tunes and the computer, not at problems with detecting the devices themselves. If i. Tunes wont even find an i. OS device, refer to this guide to resolve detection related problems. Before Beginning Update to the Newest i. Tunes. Before trying anything else, be sure you have the newest version of i. Tunes on the computer. This applies to both Mac OS X and Windows. Sometimes just updating to the newest version of i. Tunes is enough to resolve all syncing problems, particularly if the desktop software hasnt been updated in a while. You can always download the newest version of i. Tunes directly from Apple by clicking here. Update i. Tunes before proceeding. Quit Relaunch i. Tunes, Then Perform a Manual Sync. Simply quit out of i. Tunes, then relaunch the app, and try syncing again. Sometimes this is enough to get things working again. Syncing Works But No Music Movies Apps Copy Over to i. OS If syncing now works but no content, music, apps, or movies is moving over to the i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod, check the following Under the Summary tab, check if Manually manage music and videos is enabled or not, if it is then try toggling it off and on again then manually drag a song or movie over to the i. OS device to force manual syncing. Look under the Music, Movies, Apps, TV Shows or respective tabs and be sure that Sync Music, Sync Movies etc is checked and enabled. Try checking and unchecking those boxes, then hit the Sync button again. These content and media transfer issues are often just a misunderstanding of how those preferences work. Personally, I prefer to manually sync my music and media, so I have all of the individual content sync features disabled and sync everything myself through drag drop. Re Authorize i. Tunes the Computer. If syncing fails, the Sync button is greyed out and not available at all, or if you try to sync and nothing transfers over to the i. Phone, i. Pod, or i. Pad, you may simply need to authorize the computer with i. Tunes Open i. Tunes with the i. OS device attached to the computer through USBPull down the Store menu and choose Deauthorize This ComputerNow go back to the Store menu and choose Authorize This ComputerFill in the Apple ID and password information, then choose AuthorizeThis is a surprisingly common problem and its extremely easy to resolve. Tunes Authorization basically tells Apple that the apps, music, and media you have purchased belong to you, and that you have the rights to them and thus that media can be copied and synced to your i. OS devices. If you encounter authorization specific problems related to the 5 device limit, you may need to deauthorize other machines before you are able to sync the i. OS device with the current one. Reboot the i. OS Device. Restarting an i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod touch is just a matter of Holding down the Power button and Home button simultaneously until the device restarts. Technically, that approach is called a Hard Reboot because it forcibly restarts the i. OS device, but in situations where things are acting up, crashing, or just not behaving properly, its usually more effective to force reboot than to use the standard power off approach. Once the i. OS device has been restarted, try syncing again. Restart the Computer. Drivers Control Little Rock Ar. Yes restarting the computer can be annoying, but sometimes just restarting a Mac or PC is enough to resolve the problem and get things syncing again. This is particularly true if the issue has to do with a malfunctioning daemon like the i. Tunes. Helper Service or the Apple. Mobile. Device Helper process. Try the Opposite Syncing Method Wi Fi or USBTypically use Wi Fi Syncing Try using a USB cable instead. Usually use a USB cable Try using Wi Fi syncing instead to see if that works. USB syncing is usually the most reliable method, and its not terribly uncommon for wi fi sync to be a bit more picky. Wireless Syncing Randomly Stopped Working. If you find wireless sync to suddenly stop working, you typically just have to toggle the feature on and off again to get it functioning again, which must be done by connecting the i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod to the computer by USB and rechecking the Sync over Wi Fi option again under the Summary tab. This is basically like enabling it again for the first time, and only takes a moment With wireless syncing, be sure that both the i. OS device and the computer are on the same wireless network. It will not work if they are not joined to the same network. If USB syncing isnt working but Wi Fi syncing is working, then you may have a faulty USB cable, or there may be an issue with the USB port you are attempting to use, and that leads us to the next troubleshooting tip. Try a Different USB Port USB Cable. Sometimes USB ports go bad, and though its pretty rare its very easy to rule out. All you need to do is switch the USB cable from one port to another and see if it works. Also, try using a different USB cable entirely, whether its another Lightning cable or the old fashioned 3. Some of the cheaper third party cables are notorious for not working properly and leading to syncing problems, and even some of the Apple branded cables can malfunction after theyve been in use for a long time, especially if you see a weird kink in the cable itself or any fraying in the physical cable. Reset Restore the i. OS Device. Still having problems Try resetting and restoring the i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod touch. The best way to do this is through a three step process to preserve your data through a backup, then reset it to as new, then restore from a backup Create a new fresh backup of the i. OS device, either to i. Tunes or to i. Cloud. After the backup is complete, reset to factory defaults from the device itself by going to Settings General Erase All Content and Settings this will erase everything on the i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod and return it to the factory defaults as if the device was brand new, which is why its important to have created a backup first. Now restore the i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod touch by using the backup you just created, this can be restored through i. Tunes or i. Cloud from the initial setup menus. Backing up to i. Cloud and restoring from i. Cloud is often the most simple process, but it can be slightly slower than using i. Tunes because it must transfer all of the data over the internet rather than a local USB connection. On the other hand, if you have a faulty USB connection, then the i. Tunes method will not be possible and youll have to use i.