IPad App Syncing Help

Okay. When I plug my mini into to my computer my iOS apps are transferred to my computer. I don't want this. My phone doesn't do this so I am curious as to why my iPad is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a know current problem (take a look at some of the other posts for just today). Until Apple fixes it, there is nothing you can do.
Cheers,
GB

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AC

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If I bought an iPhone App then I would like to sync it to my iPad. But the iPad has a specific version for it would I need to pay a again or I can get the iPad version for free

Good question.
You can use the iPhone version of the app free of charge on your iPad. But it will be in a somewhat smaller window than your iPad could support.
If you paid and got the iPad version, it might have some more features customized for iPad. It would very likely show up in a larger window.
But purchasing the iPad app is definitely not required. You could use the iPhone version on your iPad.

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I have some large PDF files with musical lead sheets. I am thinking of getting an iPad and putting it on my music stand in order to read lead sheets to play.
However the PDFs that I created on the PC don't seem to work well on an iPad that I borrowed from a friend.
They have many book marks which I have made hierarchical so that I can very quickly drill down one level so I don't have to scroll the large list of book marks. On a PC all I have to do is two clicks and it brings up my lead sheet autosized to the window.
However, I couldn't find any signs of hierarchy capabilities in the PDF iPad App.
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Adobe Reader for iOS and others such as Readdle's PDF Expert (they call them Outlines, while bookmarks are something you can add to the doc with the app) have support for nested bookmarks. There are a lot of PDF viewers available on iOS, some much better than others (including iOS's built-in viewer), so make sure you know which one is being used when you test. I find that PDF Expert's bookmark interface is a lot nicer than Reader's.

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When I first connect iPad to iTunes, and select apps, all the apps on iPad display, but they are semi-transparent.
When I uncheck sync, then only the apps that were installed originally show up, and are 'solid'.
When I try to sync apps on my iPad, it shows these 'solid' icons only (less apps in iTunes than I have on the iPad) and warns I will lose apps not shown if I sync?! That sounds more like a revert than a sync. I do not want to revert, I want iTunes to update itself to show the list of apps I have purchased on the iPad.
Anyone know how to get iTunes to show the apps I have on the iPad and let me sync them all to iTunes without losing what I purchased on the App Store through iPad?

How could we help you?
You did not even mention the name of the app.
Contact the app maker and ask.

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i'm having the same problem !!!!

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I recently had to reinstall iTunes due to an error that prevented the program from opening. Due to my reinstall, all of my data (play count, playlists, etc.) was deleted. I have synced everything back on to my iPhone except my apps. When I check the "Sync Apps" box, iTunes asks me if I want to sync my apps because they will be deleted and replaced with ones from this computer. However, every app on my iPhone is on my computer. When I re-sync, will iTunes wipe my apps' save data? If yes, is there another way to sync my apps, such as restoring to a recently made backup? Thanks for any help in advance!

Backup manually to your computer and restore from that backup after your phone got wiped.
To back up manually, disable autosync in iTunes, connect your phone and right click on it in the device list and choose backup. See what's included in a backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Transfer your purchases the same way.

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I originally used my IPad 2 with a PC. I recently bought a Mac and want to start using my IPad 2 with the Mac. However, it wants me to erase and sync it with the Mac.
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Are you using Migration Assitant? Do you have the machines on the same network?
If you're using Migration Assistant on the Mac, try using the Windows version - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1557 - and see if that will work better.
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I have synced my iPad 3 several times with the Sync Apps box unchecked. Now if I try to check the box and sync my apps, iTunes shows I only have the default apps on there. Is there any way to get it to recognize all the apps I already have on there (many of which are already in iTunes) and all my folders I have set up? Or do I have to sift through all the apps and reorganize everything again? And if I do go through and check all the boxes for the apps I want synced, will I lose data for those apps when it re-syncs?

Anyone? Bueller?

Help, one of my ipad apps say waiting even though its synced already, i synced again, but all it did is make my ipad frome 11 gigabyts to 10

help, one of my ipad apps say waiting even though it synced already, i tried to sync again but instaid of 11 gigs, i now have 10:

Hey omaredabed,
Thanks for the question. I understand you have an app that seems to be stuck on "Waiting". The following is a past discussion that dealt with a similar issue, the answer may help you as well:
App updates won't download on my...: Apple Support Communities
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4111336
Try tapping the App, so that it changes to Paused instead of Waiting, then tap it again to resume the install.
Make sure you don't have any paused downloads in other apps either, like the App Store or iTunes Store.
If that doesn't do it, try resetting or restoring the iPhone.
via whatheck
Thanks,
Matt M.

ITunes insists on rearranging my iPad apps, even with 'Sync apps' unchecked

Here's an issue which I've noticed crop up on a few other forums, but which there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer for. I'm hoping that one of the veterens on this forum might have come across it and figured out a fix...
Since iCloud launched, I've not had any need to use iTunes for any app, music, video, podcast or book syncing. I have automatic downloading enabled on both my iPad and iPhone, and that's worked very well. Download something on one device, and it appears on the other. Wireless backup to iCloud too. All good.
There's just one thing I do still rely on iTunes for - and that's syncing photo albums and events created on my Mac in iPhoto to my iPad. I'm hopeful that at some point Apple will enable iCloud syncing for iPhoto albums (especially seeing as iPhoto is now available for iOS), but for now I'm stuck with using iTunes to move new albums and events to my iPad.
Here's the thing. Given I have automatic iCloud downloading enabled for pretty much everything, I have the following sync options turned off in iTunes:
Info
Apps
Tones
Music
Movies
TV Shows
Podcasts
Books
The only item that is checked is Photos.
So once I'm ready to sync a newly created iPhoto album or event to my iPad, I fire up iTunes, select my iPad in the devices list, make sure that the new album/event is checked under the Photos tab, make absolutely sure all other sync options are unchecked, then I hit the sync button.
And about half the time, this will go well. And the other half... well, disaster. iTunes will decide that it doesn't like my iPad apps arranged in the order I have them, and will rip them from their folders and scatter them across a ton of homescreens. The result is about an hours worth of work to get them all back in place again, just so I can enjoy having my latest photo album on my iPad.
I can't figure out why this happens. When I have app syncing unchecked, I'm specifically telling iTunes to leave my apps well alone. I have no interest in syncing apps to/from iTunes and my iPad. iCloud takes care of this for me now, and I have no reason to even have a copy of an app on my Mac. I can't do anything with it once it's on there.
Has anyone come up against this issue and found a fix?
Alternatively, and perhaps preferably, is there another way to move albums and events created in iPhoto to my iPad, without using iTunes? I know iTunes wants to be the be-all-and-end-all of syncing beasts, but now I have iCloud I have no use for it aside from photo syncing.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help here!

I'm starting to think that the lack of replies is due to the fact that nobody actually knows why this behaviour is, including Apple themselves.

All my apps (even App Store!) disappeared (iPad 1 upgrade to ios5). Most apps show up on laptop but app sync is greyed (no restrictions). I have 2 accounts due to apple email req, but I've loaded apps between my iPhone and iPad before. iPad now zero.

I postponed upgrading my iPad 1 because iTunes told me it wasn't homed on my computer. I tried it on my other computers, all with the same message. I finally upgraded it from my MacBook after appearing to sync the apps. When it finished (5.01), all of my apps and data were gone, as well as several stock apps including the App Store itself (although it appears in settings). Since what seems to be all of my apps (iPad and iPhone) appear in iTunes on my Windows portable, I tried resyncing the iPad there (as its new home). Restrictions are off, there is plenty of memory, but the app sync screen and app list are greyed out. Nothing will download to my iPad.
My original Apple account is under my name. However, I had to create a second account at some point in the past due to Apple's requirement that the name be an email address, which is my name (identical) at mac.com. Since both are in my name, it didn't originally occur to me that Apple would consider them as different accounts. This may have a bearing on what is going on, but I don't think so since I have exchanged apps between iPad and iPhone before. To check whether this might be related, I tried to change the account name on the iPad (removing @mac.com). I received a message that if I did so I would have to wait for 90 days to download my apps, which is not satisfactory since my grandchildren and I use the iPad regularly. And I need it for work.
I'm assuming that if I could reactivate the App Store I could redownload my purchased apps. Better yet would be merging both "accounts" into one, if that is the source of the issue. I appreciate your help and suggestions.
Steve

All I had to do was complain. I synced my iPhone to the Windows machine, checked the other account at iTunes prompting (where no apps had shown up previously), reconnected the iPad, and 140 apps downloaded including the App Store. I have no idea why.

Sync only iPad apps to iPad ?

Hello,
I have over 400 iPhone apps in my iTunes apps Library.
When I plug in my iPad, it wants to sync to the Library. However if I click Sync Apps - it selects all 400 of these apps, and would install them on the iPad if I let it. There appears to be no way to "Select All" or "UnSelect All" so it would appear the only way to not sync the iPhone apps to the iPad would be to individually click off each of the 400 apps tick boxes?
This is sheer madness!
There must be an "un-select" all option?
I only need to enable 5 or so iPad apps on this iPad.
Thanks
Paul

After you connect the iPad, check the Sync Apps box ONCE and wait. Wait. Wait. Apparently it takes awhile for iTunes to import or discover all the apps. (Mine were all checked to begiu with, and grayed out.) If you have lots of apps, it will take awhile. Finally, the Apps display un-grayed, though all apps were still checked. Then, I checked the Synch box (it worked!) and unchecked all the apps except those I wanted synced to my iPad. All works fine now. This takes patience and time, which we're not used to on a PC. If something doesn't happen right away, I tend to click, click, click, end task, relauch, etc., thinking there is a problem. Just imagine the old Hour Glass up there for 10-20 minutes (the more apps the longer!) ... the first time only. This worked for me and hope it helps others.

IPad app for Aperture or how to sync edits between devices

I apologize if there is a topic on this. I tried searching and couldn't find the answer to what I'm looking for. Perhaps I'm not using the right wording, so here goes....
I know there isn't an app for Aperture, yet I sure hope Apple comes out with one. I often import photos from my Aperture library to my Ipad and sometimes I want to use some of these fun photo programs on my ipad to use with my pictures. Let's say after I add some effects to the photos on my iPad, I want to sync them back to Aperture. Is there some kind of 3rd party app that allows these changes to be synced back to the photos in the library on my iMac in Aperture?
I'm not sure if cloud based edits is really what I'm looking to do here? I know that with Lightroom you can use an app where all of your edits done on your Ipad can sync to update the Lighroom on say, your iMac. I really, really am considering switching to Lightroom simply for this feature. Honestly, I'd much rather sit on my couch with my ipad to do all of my keyword and tagging, etc of photos than sitting at my desk.
I hope I'm making sense here. Thanks for all of your help.

Hi treetopguy2028,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on exactly what you are referring to when you say that iMessages does not sync. If you are talking about just iMessages proper (iMessage chat messages to other Mac/iOS users, not including SMS/MMS text messages from non-iOS phones), you may want to check that your Apple ID and phone number are correctly linked and configured, as outlined in the following article under the section labeled Use iMessage and FaceTime with multiple devices:
iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage - Apple Support
If you are referring to syncing all messages in iMessage, including SMS/MMS text messages, that would be a function of the new Continuity feature in iOS 8. In that case, this article may be more helpful (Note: Continuity requires iOS 8 on your devices and Yosemite on your Mac):
Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

Auto-Sync only iPad apps?

Is there any way to only sync iPad apps? I like to keep my iPhone and iPad on auto-sync but have no desire to run low res iPhone apps on the iPad.

When you sync the iPad to the computer it should recognize it as a new handheld. Just go through the motions of what you want on there and click sync. Each time thereafter you won't have iPhone apps on the iPad. It may help to select manually syncing what you want, rather than having it set to automatic.

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