ITunes not seeing my iPhone over Wifi

I posted this in the iPhone forum, but my guess is that the issue is more related to iTunes. So I am posting it here as well.
My iPhone doesn't show up in the sidebar of iTunes anymore, even though the iPhone is connected to and works over my wifi network. I had it set to sync over wifi and open iTunes when the iPhone was connected (e.g., checked these two boxes on the Summary Pane). But now, the phone doesn't show up at all. Oddly, my iPad shows and syncs fine. And, despite not being seen by iTuens, my iPhone is connected to my Wifi network and works fine.
I've tried unchecking and rechecking the box for wifi sync, but it doesn't hold. The phone will show up after I "reset" the check boxes with the phone attached to a cord and then disconnect the cord. After doing this, I can shut down iTunes and restart it, and the phone shows as being connected. Fine and good. But after I restart my iMac, the phone doesn't show anymore in iTunes. My guess is that this is an iTunes problem and not a problem with the wifi or the phone.
Any ideas on how to get my phone to stay showing in iTunes?

Your iOS device only has to be powered for wifi backup to iCloud. Synching to iTunes can be done over wifi without the device being powered if both are connected to the same network.
I have spent a lot of time reviewing posts similar to this and experimenting. My finding is that iTunes seems to eventually forget about your iOS devices. This has occurred on both my PC and MacBook, so seems to be a problem with iTunes and not the OS. It is totally at random. Sometimes iTunes will show both my iPhone and iPad, sometimes one or the other, sometimes neither.
I have found that after trying a dozen or more scenarios of powering, cabling, rebooting the computer or the iOS device, turning wifi on and off on the device, etc., that simply plugging the device into the computer seems to refresh connectivity between iTune and the device - for a time, until it fails again. I am using a MacBook with Mountain Lion and iTunes 11 with an iPhone 4S and iPad2 with iOS 6.1.
This is a similar discovery to Tgara above, but I didn't need to change any tick boxes as suggested. I had done this before, of course, in order to synch, but the end result of my experimentation is that the wifi link to iTunes is restored for a time after it is done.
I you cannot get a cabled synch then try the Apple suggestions at: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591

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