HT1386 Each time I try to sync my iPhone it says "Waiting for changes to be applied" even though I have clicked the 'apply' button

I have downloaded some music from the iTunes store and that has gone over onto my phone but the albums from CD's that I own are not going onto my phone as it will not sync.
Your help is very much appreciated

What is your selection under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes - all music or selected playlists, artists, genres?
If the later, did you place the music imported from a CD in a playlist that is selected to be transferred to your iPhone?
Do you have sync checked songs selected under the Summary tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes and if so, is all music in your iTunes library checked?

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hi, i just got an iphone 5 today and whenever i try to sync it on my computer itunes says it is waiting for changes to be applied, what does that mean??

Hopefully is just says that for a minute or two ...
It just means that iTunes calculates what needs to be done, and then while instructing the iPhone to do these operations, it is "Waiting for changes to be applied."

Brand new iphone 5 says waiting for changes to be applied forever, every time I sync my phone.

I previously had an iphone 4, and after backing up everything, i bought an iphone 5 and transfered everything to the new phone when i was at the apple store. i brought my laptop to get help syncing the music, but it gets stuck in a perpetual loading screen and gets stuck on waiting for changes to be applied. i cannot cancel the sync unless i eject my phone. and when i do, all of the music is greyed out, when i plug my phone in again, it starts syncing and stops when it says waiting for changes to be applied, or sometimes copying files. ive restarted my computer, my phone, un-plugged and plugged back in, everything is up to date, i un-installed and then re-installed itunes and nothing seems to work. i could sync everything fine before when i had the ophone 4. i have an HP laptop with windows 8 and i core 7, and theres a label that says nvidia geforce gt 635 (hopefully the info helps)
Can anybody please help me with this?

so i went back to the apple store and the only solution was to trade in your phone for a new one because there was a faulty conector in the microport. hopefully you have a waranty and your stuff backed up!

My Sync never finishes it says "waiting for changes to be applied"

When trying to sync, it never finishes. It says "waiting for changes to be applied" and sits there forever.

Hi, haroldfm2013.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Normally this message indicates system information changes being applied on the iOS device. However, this could be related to security software conflicts. I would recommend going through the troubleshooting steps in the article below.
iTunes: Troubleshooting security software issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3125
Cheers,
Jason H.

HT4528 my iphone will not sync with itunes it says waiting for changes to be applied

help me! i just got my iphone today! i tried restoring it and it didnt work!

Hi, haroldfm2013.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Normally this message indicates system information changes being applied on the iOS device. However, this could be related to security software conflicts. I would recommend going through the troubleshooting steps in the article below.
iTunes: Troubleshooting security software issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3125
Cheers,
Jason H.

HT1386 i updated itunes 11.1 yesterday and now im trying to get my music on itunes to sync onto my iphone 4s but when i connect it through usb...Itunes is saying " waiting for changes to be applied"?

i updated itunes 11.1 yesterday and now im trying to get my music on itunes to sync onto my iphone 4s but when i connect it through usb...Itunes is saying " waiting for changes to be applied"? so i dont know what to do cause i just want to sync my music from itunes to my iphone 4s

I had the same problem and the fix was so easy that I felt a little silly after spending 2 hours with an Apple Technician. At the end of it all, what I had to do was make sure ALL music was deleted from my iPhone 5 by going into usage and clearing out the music folder. All I had to do then was turn my phone off and turn it back on again. I had not done this after my phone upgraded to the new 7.0 IOS. What's the first thing you do when experiencing computer problems? Reboot! It fixed my problem and now my iPhone 5 synchs perfectly when I had it connected to my computer. I am also on iTunes version 11.1.

Hi, I finally got lucky and past the "other" memory status issues when syncing. Now I'm "waiting for changes to be applied" sync stuck all night (itunes yesomite iPhone 6 plus). is this a bug? I have not had a single successful sync with yesomite.

hi, I finally got lucky and past the "other" memory status issues when syncing. Now I'm "waiting for changes to be applied" sync stuck all night (itunes yesomite iPhone 6 plus). is this a bug? I have not had a single successful sync with yesomite.
please help. this issue prevents music from syncing. I have set the sync setting to convert songs to 192kbps AAC to save space, I figure that could slow the sync
down, but it's hanging indefinitely (I've left it for 24 hours with out it completing.)
the the only music that appears on the phone are songs purchased from the iTunes Store. 95% of my collection are rips from my CDs.
thank you for any help!

Yeah it's pretty sad that $1000 phone they put out you such cheap memory It causes issues, I have iPhone 6+128 GB actually this is the second brand-new one they gave me because they keep affording it trying to act like that's not the issue because they're too stupid to know how to check what memory is in each one before they give it to me when I have told them multiple times my back up runs perfectly fine on two 5s phones and a 6 64GB of course running MLC memory.
I told them it's because just like the write ups say I have 809 apps but I have not even put all my music on the phone so I'm still running 50 to 60 gigs free and it crashes and reboots itself sometimes in multitasking and more often than it does that in between multitasking I get a black screen for 1 to 2 seconds in between apps and upon start up the Apple logo screen will flicker and do weird things, One of the genius idiots asked me if I could just delete some of my apps, really that's the answer to fix the phone the customer needs to limit the amount to apps they put on their phone, why the **** get a 128 gig if you can't put on anything you want to it guess they need to start selling them saying you can only put a limited number of apps on them, it's really is a **** joke, I have over $20,000 of Apple merchandise easily and always get the new phone every year but I'm starting to reconsider my decisions in the future because this company is starting to go downhill, The reason water not recalling the phones is because they're dealing with their top-of-the-line thousand dollar phones in this case and most people don't have over two or 300 apps so they're not having as many issues, so basically they have messed up phones they just don't know it in their hands and Apple is just too **** greedy to recall the phones, they'd rather sell customer spends that only work half ***.
Stuff like this will be the downfall of their company, all the people that stay with them because as long as you don't jailbreak their stuff it normally just works without issue will be soon jumping ship if stuff like this keeps up, because I can guarantee they got me thinking now.
not that I wanted to know or should I be expected to but I even offered for them to open up my brand-new phone and just replace the memory to MLC memory which is something I shouldn't have to do with a brand-new **** phone, they should just make one with the right memory and give me a new phone, actually just don't sell customers that buy the top-of-the-line phone from you trash ones in the first place that would be a great option.
what burns me up the most is when you talk to AppleCare and Genius Bar they try to act like the issue isn't there and they're unaware of it, they say that Apple hasn't come out with any information about it, yeah that's because they don't want to recall the trash.
Apple has became nothing better than your run-of-the-mill company, android is becoming just as good as they are sad to say this since I have been an Apple fan for so long but there is no excuse for BS like this they have been looking for options to fix my phone for a month now this is not the way you should treat loyal customers, I would've been better off keeping my 5S and in the future just switching to android.
it's pretty sad that the company has no idea how to check which memory is in their **** phone and even after I offered to let them just replace the memory in my new phone by opening up my brand-new phone to replace it they have no idea how to do that either, yeah Genius Bar sure, I think that should change the name to idiot bar and Apple don't care instead of Apple care.

Why can't i sync my songs to my ipod touch? it says "waiting for changes to be applied? its been like for 3 days and if it does sync all my music are grey and wont play on my ipod? any suggestions?

it says "waiting for changes to be applied? its been like that for 3 days and if it does sync all my music are grey and wont play on my ipod? any suggestions? im really getting frustrated ! -__-

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I just got my iPhone 6 two days ago, and everything was working beautifully, until yesterday. I noticed when I tried to sync my phone to iTunes to put more music on, the sync gets stuck on "waiting for changes to be applied" which is step 4 of 4. I'm thinking this is a iTunes problem? I tried restarting my phone, and iTunes, and then eventually my computer, and still no change on this step. It's been at least ten minutes now and it's still doing this....help please.

I've been having the same problem. It would either get stuck at "Waiting for changes to be applied" or "Waiting for items to copy". My last successful sync was on 10/15. Tried a number of times either via wifi or direct connect.
Solved it in the following fashion:
Connected the phone to the computer via Lightning cable.
My phone was set to back-up to iCloud. Changed that setting to back up to the computer.
Unchecked the "Sync Music" option under the music tab.
Hit apply.
After a wait - the back-up completed and all the music was removed from my phone.
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Hi, I've been experiencing problems with my iPod touch 5g, the problem is that when I updated it to iOS 7 some of my songs were deleted, so I went to iTunes and unsync it, but now I can't add the music again, iTunes says waiting for changes to be applied.
I've tried everything restarting the iPod, restating my mac, restore the iPod to the factory settings, everything and none of them worked
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Since I updated to latest software on ipad cannot sync. with computer. Makes it to step 7 however says 'waiting for changes to be applied' and never completes sync.

Since I updated to latest software on ipad cannot sync. with computer. Makes it to step 7 however says 'waiting for changes to be applied' and never completes sync.
thx for the help,
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Hello Marcia,
Sorry you are having trouble syncing content with your iPhone 5. I found an article that might help with this syncing issue:
iTunes: May become unresponsive when connecting iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3219
Also, you can delete the songs from the iPhone without syncing by just swiping from left to right over the song to get a delete button.
I hope this helps!
Best,
Sheila M.

HT1386 When I open sync I cant get past 'waiting for changes to be applied'. It is not a problem on my ipad, just my iphone. Anyone help? Tia. David

When I open sync I can't get past step 3 'waiting for changes to be applied'. It is not a problem when I sync my ipad, just my phone. Anyone any ideas?

Eject the device.
Close and relaunch iTunes.
If the problem continues, restart the computer and the device.

Following iOS7 update, sync hangs on "Step 6: Waiting for changes to be applied"

Just updated to iOS7. Everything seems be be working fine except for the fact that I can't sync my phone. It stalls on "STEP 6: Waiting for changes to be applied."
Anyone else having this problem?

I'm curious if the folks on this or the other threads dedicated to this problem have pretty substantial (say, over 25 GB) music files.
I ask because the simplest thing seems like it solved it for me. Every sync since downloading ios 7 and itunes 11.1 encountered this problem. I did all the resets of my device and Macbook Air, re-installed itunes, factory reset on my iphone (4s), turned off Genius and Find My Phone, double checked my download file in itunes, deleted all my voice memos, deleted all my media and then re-installed it, basically any of the suggestions I came across on the discussion boards or were recommended during any of my three Apple support chat sessions, it still hung up every time resulting in partial or complete deletion of my music and other media.
Then this evening for the first time I fought the urge to cancel the sync when it seemingly got stuck and I just let it go. Well over an hour later the sync finished seemingly normally and since then it's been fine, syncing just as quickly as it always used to. I've got about 43GB of music that syncs every time, I wonder if there isn't something that the new itunes/ios needs to do to the individual files that just takes awhile. My wife updated to ios 7 on the same day I did and never had this issue, the only noticeable difference between our phones is the size of our respective music libraries.

Why sync with outlook stops with "waiting for changes to be applied" msg @itunes and Outlook msg. of not properly closed file?

After a new installation of Win7 64 bit, Office 2007 and iTunes 11.4.1.62 I am not able to sync 2 of iPhone 4s with Outlook.
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1) In the device window in iTunes there is a message "iTune is not paired with any device" BUT the iPhone communicates well with iTunes
2) the upgrade to latest iOS 7.1 didn't help
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I have tried about everything and nothing works and apple support is like going to Microsoft support.
here in communities its not that ez to get back to where I was. I have found many threads and comments about this and nobody seems really thrilled about the fix and the folks that help here are baffled about it too. I have tried posting with this problem 3-4 times already and no responses -so I think this is an unresolvable problem which makes my ipad unusable since I cannot add music or movies or tv shows to it.
I like others have spent hours on this--already tried reset a few times and 2 restores but the problem comes back.
and it includes the bar below where it shows different things using up space including a fast increasing "other" category.
there is a software issue.
by the way, the new io8 o whatever it is? using safari has become cumbersome because the bookmarks stay on left side of screen taking up valuable space--that can be fixed by tapping on the bookmark logo, only after you scroll back up--bring back the old way.
in addition as long as I am venting, all of a sudden I am getting, while using safari, pop up ads galore tied somehow to google.
apple is losing its competitive advantage.
I'll have to try adding a book or a new app to see if I can add those--if not, I'll have to give up on apple for tablets.

HT1386 Each time I try to sync my iPhone it says "Waiting for changes to be applied" even though I have clicked the 'apply' button

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