IPhone 4 to new computer

So I am getting a MacBook Pro, and I wont have this laptop no more.. which is my main computer for my iphone.
So once I sync my iphone to the macbook.. how do i make it my new main computer for the iphone.. and i also want the iphone to sync the contacts and photos that are on it to the macbook.
I backed up my contacts in gmail.. but what about my photos... will it go from phone to the macbook

The pic sync is one way - computer to iphone. They are also reduced in size fro viewing on iphone.
The pics taken with the iphone camera are not part of the sync process. You import them as you would from any digital camera ( which you should do regularly and include in your regular backup of your computer).
"once i connect it to a new computer its gonna say this phone is not synced with this computer.. if you want to sync.. you must erase all data on this phone... how do i make it not erase all my data on the phone
You do not. It will indeed erase the pics ( photo library) and the itunes content and replace with content from the new computer. This is why you move everything from the old computer to the new one.
If you sync to a blank calendar and contact program on your new computer, then they will be erased as well. Another reason to move everything from the old computer to the new one.

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I have an iPhone and when I got it, I had a Toshiba laptop. Now I have a MacBook Pro, but when I try to wi-fi sync my iphone and new computer, it doesn't work because on my iphone it is still trying to sync with my old computer. How I can fix this?

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Move the content from the old computer to the new computer.
Sync the iPhone via cable to the new computer and enable Wi-Fi syncing.
It should now be possible to sync via Wi-Fi to the new computer.

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IPhone. New Computer. Help.

Hi,
I just got a used MacBook Air 1.1 and I have an iphone 4. I want to get all the songs from my iPhone onto my new computer, which already has songs on it. Everytime I try and sync the phone it says it is going to erase everything and replace it with the stuff from my new computer. This is a problem!
Just to clarify there are two things I need help with:
1) Syncing iPhone with new computer without erasing everything
2) Putting music on new computer (already has some music on it that I would like to keep) from my iPhone 4 that has all my music.
Thanks so much.

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IPhone syncing, new computer old iphone.... major issues.

I recently bough a new macbook pro, i have an old iphone 2g (dont ask me why i still have this ancient beauty, i just love it). However I havent updated my iphone in over a year and need to update it.
Since this is a new computer and I do not have the other one, which I would usually use to connect to my iPhone, the new computer won't let me sync anything without deleting everything on it.
How do I sync all my stuff (or at least all my contacts to my address book) so that i can restore and update the iphone 2g for to this new computer??? thx for the time.
o and is there any good free 3rd party software that can assist in this if apple can't... and no i do not have a backup on my new mbp, so i can't just restore and use a backup.

I already have some contacts in my address book. So I tried to look for the iPhone under >import however, nothing.... So do i just press sync on my iphone on itunes? Will it give me the option as soon as i press it or just delete everything.... dont want to press something and make a mistake that will cost me all my contacts.

Cant sync/back up iPhone to new computer

Hi,
when I plug my iPhone 4 into a new computer in iTunes it pops up saying that "iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone "Matthew". Go to the Summary tab in iPhone preferences and click Restore to restore this iPhone to factory settings.
I read through a few older posts where people had similiar issues and some folks had suggested backing up the iPhone and then restoring it, however when I right click on the phone under devices on iTunes the only options it comes up with it 'Open in new window' and 'Eject iPhone'
I do not have my iPhone backed-up anywhere else, therefore if I restore to factory settings I am going to lose everything.
Any help would be fantastic, thank you.

Instead of backing up to the computer, can you do a backup to iCloud? Assuming you have room in iCloud for your backup, and room on your iPhone to do the iOS update over-the-air, this should work.
But someday you're going to have to face the music when you connect your iPhone to your Mac, so get your library back in shape as best as you can.

Backing up my iphone - onto new computer - so I lose all songs I did not purchase on itunes? If I copied CDs into itunes on an old computer that I don't have access to anymore and I upgrade my software to 5.0 I lose anything not on the new computer itune?

So my home computer decided to quit... I am trying to start using my work computer more now. I have itunes with a library of only 150 songs. My iphone has over 550 songs. Even after I sync my phone to my new computer and mark items purchased to be sync it doesn't increase on itunes. I know I've purchased songs on my iphone so that is my first problem...
Next, at home I copied CDs onto itunes which I sync'd onto my iphone. Am I right that I will lose all these songs now when I update my software?
To summarize:
I have no way to back up songs that were not purchased on itunes?
How do I sync my iphone purchases into itunes correctly (since it isn't working now)
Will I lose content from my iphone, if it doesn't show up on itunes before I update my software to 5.0?
Am I making sense?

iOS 6.1.3 Software Update
iOS: How to update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Since your updating from iOS 4 to iOS 6, you will most likely lose your songs, but if songs were purchased from iTunes, you can try this:
Downloading past purchases from App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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Keeping Contacts & Apps when syncing iPhone with new computer

I just got a new netbook with Windows 7 Starter. I would like to transition from using my current work laptop to the netbook as the manager of my iPhone. When I try to sync my iPhone with the new computer it says that my iPhone's library is linked to another computer. It appears that all of my contacts and apps will be erased if I sync these items on the netbook.
Does anyone know a way that I can keep this information without erasing? I already erased my music content from the iPhone. I foresee a real problem since this netbook doesn't have Outlook and all my contact information is in that format. I also don't want to have my apps all wiped out. Thanks for the help.

iTunes content can be synced or manually managed with an iTunes library on a single computer, and photos can be transferred to the iPhone via the iTunes sync process from a single computer only. When transferring iTunes content and photos from another computer, all iTunes content and photos transferred from a different computer will be erased from your iPhone first.
No other content is touched or erased when doing so including iPhone contacts especially if you don't select to sync contacts with a supported application on a new computer.
iTunes includes an option to transfer iTunes content that was purchased/downloaded from the iTunes store, but this is for iTunes content that was purchased/downloaded from the iTunes store only. With your iPhone connected and without syncing, at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Transfer Purchases From - the name of your iPhone. If you haven't activated the new computer with your iTunes account with iTunes, you should do so before doing this.
With Windows, contacts can be synced with Outlook 2003 or 2007 along with calendar events, or with Windows Contacts for syncing contacts only.
If you don't have Outlook 2003 or 2007 available on the new computer, you will have Windows Contacts available. Before syncing contacts with Windows Contacts, enter one contact in Windows Contacts. Make the contact up if needed, which can be deleted later. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync with Windows Contacts, which you want to select.
There is no Outlook format or Apple address book format with contacts. You can sync contacts with Outlook 2003 or 2007 or with Windows Contacts on a PC, and sync contacts with Apple's address book on a Mac.
Contact, calendar events, and Safari bookmarks can be synced with the supported applications on multiple computers. With two Windows computers, with two Macs, or with a Windows computer and a Mac.

Syncing iPhone with new computer

Please help and bear with me. I have read many similar threads but have found none that seem to match my situation. My old computer was unstable so I restored it to original settings. It created a backup file of my stuff. It still was trouble so i'm done with it. I now have a new computer. I'm trying to sync my iphone 3gs with it and of course it wants to erase every thing as it can't find the files and iTunes libraries etc. In my old computer's windows created backup file I have an itunes folder. It has several dated library files and about 1.3 gb of stuff. I have many contacts and pics/videos from the camera on it that I want to save. I could care less about the music. There is not much there as I have a seperate ipod synced with a diferent computer for my music. I just want to keep what is on my iPhone currently and back it up and save on my new laptop. I do not have the icloud. My phone is currently on ver. 4.2.1 and has 7 gb of stuff on it.
Thanks in advnce for pointing me in the right direction.

I had the same problem. I decided to erase my drive and instill 10.5 and all of my apps fresh. What I did to keep my contacts and calendars is something I've done often in the past when restoring from backups.
This only works if you have a backup of your previous user folder. Go to your user folder, then the library folder. You should see a folder called calendar, move those files into the user/library/calendar folder in the new computer/system.
Do the same for your address book contacts. You will find those in user/library/application support/addressbook
You can do this for a number of other applications. I have done this for years with my the support data for web browsers (saved passwords, address).
You might also try this since itunes just asked me (and if you don't have a copy of your old user folder). Make sure that you check sync calendars/contacts in the iphone section in itunes. After I did that, it just asked me if I wanted to replace the information on the phone on merge its info with the new computer... That might make the process above unnecessary.

Backing up ipad/iphone to new computer. Have old computer backup files.

I have a new computer and want to backup my ipad and iphone to the new computer without losing data and settings. I have complete backup files from the old computer including the previous ipad and iphone syncs. I have set up itunes on the new computer and transferred over my music. Can I transfer over the mobile device backup files to the new computer so the sync on the new computer is as if I am to syncing to the old computer?

Thanks for the info.
I have 2 files from from old computer (one for iphone and one for ipad) from the folder callled: users\xxx\appdata\roaming\applecomputer\roaming\mobilesync\backup\. If I just copy those over to the new computer and put them in the same subdirectory will the ipad/iphone recognize these when I try to sync?
I also have the old itunes subfolder called Mobile Applications and am wondering if I just copy that over to the new itunes subfolder called itunes\media whether it will automatically be recognized? Note: I am able to access the backup but unable to do anything in itunes in the old computer (such as consolidating or merging files)
Are these all of the files associated with the ipad/ipod backup that would have been stored on the old computer?

How to connect iphone to new computer without having the old one? The hard drive on my macbook broke, so I had to install a system from scratch. I now cannot reconnect my iPhone. How can I set the new computer without loosing my data on the iPhone?

Recently the hard drive on my mac book was damaged beyond repair and I had to reinstall the OS.
MY iPhone still has all its original dta.
How can I connect my iPhone to my computer (virtually new) without loosing the data I have on my iPhone?
Obviously I cannot recover any of the old itunes files.
Thanks,

Some of the information below has subsequently appeared in a document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. Examples (check the web for others; this is not an exhaustive listing, nor do I have any idea if they are any good):
- Expod (free) - http://www.headlightsoft.com/expod/ - Mac, universal for 104.+ (newer machines try de-Tune)
- deTune (free) - http://www.headlightsoft.com/detune/ - Mac, 10.5+
- Senuti - http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
- Phoneview - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
- MusicRescue - http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/
- Sharepod (free) - http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2 - Windows
- Snowfox/iMedia - http://www.mac-videoconverter.com/imedia-transfer-mac.html - Mac & PC
- iexplorer (free) - http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ - Mac&PC
- Yamipod (free) - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/ - PC, Linux, Mac [Still updated for use on newer devices? No edits to site since 2010.]
- 2010 Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141 - dates from 2008 and some outdated information now.
Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/ - Information about use in disk mode pertains only to older model iPods.
Get Your Music Off of Your iPod - http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Get_Your_Music_Off_of_Your_iPod - I am not sure but this may only work with some models and not newer Touch, iPhone, or iPad.
Additional information here https://discussions.apple.com/message/18324797

Syncing apps from iPhone to new computer

I have a new computer and want to sync my phone and all it's apps to my new computer. How do I do this without loosing all of my apps?

Hi ...
What if that doesn't help?
I have a new computer cause the other one crashed, and I've tried this but didn't succeed. It seems to be working and when iTunes ask if I want to use the new properties and I press ok, nothing has been done, and there's no programs in my iTunes program libary?
It want me to update an empty iTunes libary even if I try to import buying from my iPhone.
Unfortunately the answer is not very helpful to me.
Happy Easter.

How do I retain all content when transferring iphone to new computer?

I need to transfer my old iphone to my new computer so that I can transfer all the contact info, manually downloaded music, notes, and so forth from that phone onto my shiny new iphone.
Is this possible?

Syncing to a new iTunes library or computer will erase your phone. Only if you back up manually before syncing, you can restore your device from that backup again. A manual backup does not include the sync process.
Do this:
Disable autosync in iTunes, connect your phone to your new computer and right click on it in the device list and choose backup. iTunes will backup your device without syncing.
Transfer your purchases the same way, choosing "transfer purchases" this time.
When you connect your phone for the first time, all media content will be erased. But you can restore your settings and app data from your manual backup afterwards.
Don't forget to set up at least one contact and event on your new computer to be able to merge calendars and contacts when you sync the iPhone for the first time.
Music is one way only, from the computer to your device, unless you bought the songs in itunes and transferred your purchases.
There is 3rd party software out there, but not supported by Apple, see this thread:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0
About backups and what's saved:iTunes: About iOS backups
How to back up and restore:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to download apps for free again:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Saving other data is also described here. How to back up your data and set up as a new device
Connect you new iPhone and let iTunes set it up and use the manual backup from your old iPhone to restore from:
iPhone: Transferring information from your current iPhone to a new iPhone

How to sync iPhone to new computer without erasing? (iTunes 11.0.5)

I recently purchased a new computer (MacBook Pro OSX 10.8.5) and I've tried everything to sync my iPhone (3GS) to iTunes (11.0.5) without having to erase everything and I haven't had any success.
There must be someone out there who has been able to sync their phone to the new iTunes without having to erase all the content on their phone.
Any help?

Hi,
Option 1:
     If you have purchased a new Mac from an Local Apple store, I'd advise you to bring in your old computer along with your new one in, and have them assist you on transferring. (Assuming your computer doesn't not even power up)
Option 2:
     If your computer can be powered up (seeing the Apple Logo), and your hard drive is fine, then you can connect the two computers by using a Firewire cable, and then transfer the music files by drag and drop.
     http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661
Option 3:
     There are 3rd party software that you may purchase used to extract music from your iPhone, but it will have to be done at your own risk. You may Google for extracting music from iPhone for a start.
-cwdlin

Installing iPhone To New Computer

I'm planning on getting a new computer this week, and wanted to know what I have to do, to be able to use my iPhone on it, as well as my iPod?
Thanks

1. Install iTunes
2. point iTunes to your music library
3. plug in iPhone
4. use it
and if anything fails... read the manual here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhoneUserGuide.pdf

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