IPhone :: ITunes Deletes All Apps When The Sync Apps Box Is Checked?
Apr 7, 2012
I just got a replacement iphone and restored it from a backup, however, upon trying to sync it again, the 'sync apps' checkbox is not checked. I can see my apps that are greyed out but as soon as I check the box to sync the apps, they all disappear! I haven't synced it since for fear of having to start over every time.
Whenever i connect my device to the computer it starts to backup and transfers purchased apps/items from my iphone to itunes library, but also deletes them from my phone, is this some kind of a functionality?
I really want to update to iOS 5.1... But when I try to, it says that it deletes my apps. My friend said they don't, but she has her apps synced on iTunes. I can't do that or else it'll delete all of my apps, anyways. My brother said that they released a patch for that, but...Does it really delete your apps? I'm 2 updates behind because this happened with the last one, but I really want the battery update and deleting songs from the iPhone itself... I just want to know before hand beause I have a lot of apps already (23 to be exact, since they take up lots of space) and I really don't feel like redownloading all of them. Plus the update takes hours on its own.
All the apps in iTunes are greyed out, i cannot do anything with them. I have switched to manual sync but still cannot sync.I have the latest version of itunes installed on my imac and the latest version of firmware on my iphone.
I keep running into a super, super frustrating issue that I can't seem to figure out a fix or workaround for - basically iTunes keeps trying to sync ALL of the apps in my library no matter if I've removed it from the phone or unchecked it from within iTunes. When I start a sync, unchecked apps mysteriously become checked and iTunes then tries to copy everything over again.
I currently have around 600 apps in iTunes but only have around 200 on the phone itself, and manually deleting 400 apps every time iTunes freaks out like this is driving me crazy.
I currently back up the phone to iCloud but some times sync to iTunes to backup locally as well, but I'm assuming this isn't the expected behaviour.
When connected to my iPhone, the Apps are greyed out and can't be accessed and don't sync. The sync apps box is chceked, the computer is authorised, there are no restrictions on my iPhone - everyhting else syncs fine (as it has always done) only the apps stopped?
I downloaded a few apps, there on my itunes. and while my iphone is connected it syncs but still no apps on there. the "app" tab on itunes is unclickable, i cant uncheck or check anything.
Has anyone ever developed software to be kind of like iTunes for syncing jailbroken apps? Pkgbackup can be used to back them up, but it would be nice to have visual evidence like iTunes gives you. I copied the folder for jailbroken apps to my Mac as an additional backup but that doesn't have the settings IIRC. I also used aptbackup for the settings, before you tell me that. I just wonder if anyone has put all this together to make something more visual.
After jailbreaking and getting my phone exactly the way I want it, I've decided I don't want to have to use iTunes to manage my music and Apps. I just reformatted my PC, and now iTunes wants me to totally wipe my iPhone and start over - this is unacceptable.
So I would like to manage my music outside of iTunes, but prefereably still using the iPod app as opposed to a third party one. I did a quick search and found nothing on the forums. Googling has led me to a few ideas, but they all seem dated. I am not familiar enough with SSH to figure this one out by myself.
Apps may be trickier, but there are a number of apps I have downloaded through Cydia, etc. that I would need to re-download if I wiped my phone.
Any tips or advice would be great here. Each successful thread I post takes me one step closer to leaving Big Brother out of my smartphone experience!
My new iPhone 4S (iOS 5.0.1) won't sync apps or music from iTunes in my win7 operating system unless if they downloaded from i tunes store, and the sync does't work if the source of apps is a CD or DVDs!
how do I sync my apps to my itunes library, it is saying that it will erase all my apps on the phone and replace with library. I want it to be the apps on my phone...
The syncing on my iPod 5th Generation seems to work fine, but after further review, about 10 apps don't sync for some reason. I am using iOS7. I'm trying to transfer all of my apps from my iPod to my iPhone 5s via iTunes, but I can't get a few apps to sync in iTunes. Why most of my apps will sync fine, but some won't? One of the apps I am trying to sync is called RE.minders (a calendar app).
When working with Itunes and the iphone, the apps syncing checkbox is always on and faded, so I can't sync the music library without syncing the apps. I have several apps downloaded from cydia and don't wanna have to download again. Drag and drop is not working, so it also forces to install every app I have on iTunes (deleting non itunes apps) when I just want to install one. I tried changing store accounts, rebooting phone, rebooting computer but no results.
The system is as follows: Jailbroken iPhone 3g firm 3.1.2 iTunes 9.03 Mac OSx
I just bought an iPhone 4S. I tried to sync all my favorite apps from iTunes to my new iPhone 4S i just bought. But I don't know what happen that some of apps successfully sync to iPhone 4S and some of the app said "failed to install" on my iPhone screen.
how to sync my i phone to a new computer and i tunes without loosing my apps and music etc? i have no access to my old computer i want to back up all my apps, music contacts and pictures off my phone to I tunes on my new laptop?
I would like to have all of my phone apps in one place (home computer), When I switched from laptop to desktop the phone apps in itunes didn't migrate to the new computer. I try to sync the phone to the desktop all of the old apps that are on the laptop are deleted and vice versa.
1. If I want factory setting back ( resetting / formating phone ) does it deletes everything non-factory ? Does it reinstalls games ( factory ) if they are deleted ?
2. Why I cannot update Ovi maps 3.01 to 3.03 ? I openen the file on PC and installed it on the phone but when I try to open the maps it flashes Ovi maps interface for 0.5s and then goes back to the main menu.
I'm having trouble syncing my iTunes library to my iPhone 3GS with only the checked songs.I went through my library and checked the music that I want. Plugged in the phone and went to the home summary page and checked "sync only checked..." I'm still getting some songs that aren't checked in my library and some of the songs that are checked aren't syncing. What am I doing wrong?
I've just installed iOS 5.1.1, discovered that not all photos that I checked in iTunes had been synchronized to my iPhone, noted that Other was taking up lots of space, restored the iPhone from a backup, discovered that it still did not subsequently sync all requested photos, selected to sync no photos and delete those on the iPhone, and am in the process of once again syncing the photos that I selected.
Now I notice that I selected 25,287 photos, but iTunes is reporting "Copying photo ... of 13,320". Why just 13,320? I elected to erase all the photos on the iPhone, so I would expect that iTunes would have to copy all 25,287!
Maybe Apple would be wise to invest some cash in software quality control. iOS 5 and iPhoto '11 are seriously flawed.
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.66 GHz Core i7, 17", 8GB RAM
my bb has started acting weird, sometimes( not always) when screen unlocked it automatically selects apps,writes messages,deletes messages,send messages etc. its like someone is logged in remotley and doing this, what is this and how can i stop it?
I can't seem to get App Sync 3.1 to sync the apps I've gotten from Cydia. I've tried reinstalling it, deleting it and then downloading a fresh copy of it, but no luck either way. And yes, I DID restart after both scenarios. I'm running 3.13 on a 3GS.