Iphone 4 is connecting to my computer fine, but won't show up as a device in iTunes?
Hey everyone~
So I just recently got a new iPhone 4 which I was totally stoked about; until I tried to connect it to iTunes.
I have a Windows 8 laptop, and whenever I plug the phone into the USB that's connected to the laptop, it shows as a connected device. It seems to work fine.
But iTunes doesn't even recognize that a device is connected. By this I mean that my phone won't appear in the devices tab next to the iTunes store tab in library.
I'm extremely frustrated after searching through article after article and seeing that nothing is helping. I've uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes countless times, restarted both my laptop and device numerous times, and even tried to see if a firewall was preventing me from connecting but that wasn't the issue.
I've used my older iPhone 3gs PERFECTLY on this laptop before and had no problems, but I just really want music on this phone!
Please help!
Thanks.
Well, I figured it out!
So I finally found out that by completely wiping out any apple software on my laptop, I tried downloading iTunes from FireFox instead of Chrome and it finally worked.
Hope this helps someone else with the same problem as me!
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