Sync iPhone over the air?

Hey everyone,
iPhone n00b here. Does anyone know if it is possible to sync the iphone over the air either via 802.11 or Bluetooth?
I don't want to have to plug it into my laptop every night.
Cheers

What are you trying to sync? And where does that content reside.
If you are sycning email, contacts, and calendars, then you can sync with Mobile Me "over the air."
If you want to sync music, podcasts or otner content stored in iTunes, then your computer that hosts iTunes must be turned on. WFI can be uused to connect but the compute must be running.

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HT1296 I'm trying to sync the calendar from my phone on the my new mac. the "sync calendars" blurb in iTunes says, "your calendars are being synced with your iPhone over the air from iCloud".. not nothing is happening. what to do? what to do?

I'm trying to sync the calendar from my phone on the my new mac. the "sync calendars" blurb in iTunes says, "your calendars are being synced with your iPhone over the air from iCloud".. not nothing is happening. what to do? what to do?

or even better on mac sign into icloud with same apple id under system preferences and icloud
they will merge automatically
Peace, Clyde

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Hi,
Just bought a new iMac running Mountain Lion so I've now got iCloud capability back. My Safari bookmarks on my iPhone 4 are a mess and I can't delete them or get them to sync properly with the iMac Safari bookmarks.
When I connect my iPhone and look in iTunes>Devices>Info>Other, it says that 'bookmarks are being synced with your iPhone over the air from MobileMe. Over-the-air sync settings can be changed from your iPhone'. There's no option to change this default and I can't find anything on the iPhone that lets me change over-the-air sync settings. I used to have a MobileMe account but thought that was all dead and buried now.
What do I need to do to make sure the bookmarks are synced from the iMac and the current ones on the iPhone are deleted?
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Before doing a whole restore, try adding the account again without the on air syncing turned on, then sync. It may not authenticate if you have cancelled the account but if you continue to tap "Save" it will accept it with a message stating that it may not be able to connect to the server.
After, then sync so that iTunes gets the updated settings.
Nice, thanks, that did the trick.
I had to tap "save" twice (first time, then the alert pops up, dismiss the alert and hit "save" again) and accept to add the account although it could not authenticate. Then I synced and afterwards deleted the account again *on the iPhone*. Syncing again and iTunes now lets me sync contacts and calendars again.
Thank you!
@Darsarin
Thanks for the link, didn't find that thread earlier.

How can I sync my mac's contacts to my iphone over the air with mobile?

I add about one or two contacts a day on my mac and want it to automatically upload to my iphone. I have my mac's mobile me to sync atomically. I don't get the push, fetch, manually thing. I don't want my phone to drain battery power to push my emails to my phone. I can do this manually. But, when I enter a contact on my mac, i want it to immediately go to my iphone. Also, when I enter a contract to my iphone, i would like it to co to mobile me, so when I look on the mac the contract is there. I have tried keeping push on and setting contacts to manually. This hasn't worked. i have tried having push on and having contracts manually selected as well as push selected in advance and NADA. No contracts are sync from the mac to iphone.
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Hi Joseph. Try opening systems preferences on the Mac and go to mobileme. Just make sure under sync, that contacts are selected. Hope this helps.

How can I turn off over the air sync settings on my Mac iPhone

Hi,
For some reason I am attempting to sync my iPhone with my laptop as usual but now in the iTunes app when I attach my iPhone and go to Info, it reads: Your contacts are being synced with your iPhone over the air from MobileMe. Over the air sync settings can be changed on your iPhone. So here is the thing, I have looked online and have found nothing at all to show me how to do this on my iPhone. I want to be able to add info on my iPhone and then connect it with my laptop and sync it immediately with my laptop and also to add info on my laptop and immediately sync it with my iPhone. Please help. Thanks

On your iPhone go to Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then select your MobileMe account. Turn off the items you don't want synced over the air.

Over the air sync can be changed on your iPhone

iTunes says that "Your contacts are being synced with your iPhone over the air from MobileMe.
Over-the-air sync settings can be changed on your iPhone".
How do I change that so I can sync my contacts with Windows Contacts? When I tried to sync with MobileMe I lost all of my contacts and I want to get them back on my iPhone.

Hi,
I did the same thing deleted my email account and recreated it, went with the same settings and same issues.
I certainly am not a Mac or iPhone expert, but I can tell you what happened to me then. I obviously had the same issue with "over air sync can be changed on your iphone" and my contacts had been wiped out. I was concerned as I had lost all my contacts off the iphone however my mobileme account had all of the contacts there. I found that all I had to do was give it some time to really sync between mobileme and the iphone contacts. I was being too impatient expecting them to appear instantly once I agreed to the sync with mobileme. I left it for a few hours and the contacts finally syncd.
Hope this helps

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I have a problem while I sync my contacts with Exchange 2007 over-the-air. Some contacts on iPhone have incorrect birthdays (they appear off by one day). The solution described here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2456 doesn't work for me because I have no ability to reset sync history when I use over-the-air sync.
If I try to sync my contacts with iTunes (over-the-air sync turned off in iPhone settings), everything is ok - birthdays have correct dates.
Is there solution to get in iPhone contacts with correct birthdays when sync with Exchange over-the-air?
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Roy, no, I have no indication that Notes are being sync'd over the air, by Mobile Me. That is why I made that comment, that Apple needs to clean up the Notes sync interface so that it is consistent with the other MobileMe sync aware apps. To me It appears that the Notes sync was just added in, so my guess is iOS 4.0.1 will clear that up a bit.
Are you sure you have Push turned on? Without that, OTA syncing will not occur. Also check in your Mac's System Preferences under the Mobile Me pane to make sure Notes are being sync'd. Not sure that affects the iPhone, but it affects the syncing in the cloud, so that could be an issue too.
I can suggest one other thing to try.
That is to do a hard reset of your iPhone (home button/and power button) This will clear your caches. Don't know if it dumps the Notes database, but it may.
Then immediately upon restart, do the Notes replacing procedure that I outlined. The key is to remove the confusion. As I said, once I cleaned up all my Notes and consolidated them in one place, then reset them all on the iPhone, everything worked as expected.
I am a heavy Notes user, and use them extensively on the road on the iPhone and in my office on my Mac and at home on my MBPro and another iMac, so I expect them to be all the same and always updated. This procedure worked for me.

Over-the-air sync settings

iTunes says that bookmarks are being synced with my iPhone over the air from MobileMe. I only have MobileMe for my computer and not for my phone. Would this be the reason that I cannot find the over-the-air sync settings on my phone and also why they do not match the bookmarks that I have set on my computer? If that is the case, how can I manually set the bookmarks on my phone to match?

I only have MobileMe for my computer and not for my phone.
If you have MobileMe, it is for any and all computers/devices that you have set it up for.
Have you enabled Bookmark syncing in:
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > {Your MobileMe Account Name} > Bookmarks
BTW, the *MobileMe Sync* forums are here: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1264

Upgraded to iTunes 11...now insists on syncing contacts/calendars 'over-the-air' but can't change settings

Upgraded to iTunes 11, at which time it decided it was better for me to sync my calendar/contacts "over-the-air" from iCloud (when I never had this activated before). Now it says "your contacts are being synced with your iPhone over the air from iCloud" (which is not true...it doesn't work and changes in one place are not made in another - same goes for calendars). Also states "Over-the-air sync settings can be changed on your iPhone" (likewise not true...I've got them deactivated in my iPhone and still doesn't work).
Not sure why Apple thought they should go ahead and change my preferences that were setup to go to iCloud, especially when it doesn't even work. Now no contact or calendar changes I make in Outlook transfer to iPhone or vice-versa (even with a manual sync).
Anyone know what the h*ll is going on with this? To say I'm annoyed would be an understatement. May be time to ditch Apple and the iPhone, first no YouTube & Google Maps now they insist on not allowing me to sync the way I want. Total BS.

I have this same problem too - thanks for the heads up that all my NOTES will get wiped. Going to have to workaround by dumping all my notes from Outlook to ONENOTE on the cloud. Then not really using NOTES on my iPhone and iPad. Apple is slowly becoming more and more successful in getting me to NOT use MS products, like Outlook. Actually, my cloud strategy will be to keep my longer notes on ONENOTE and relegating NOTES on iPhone/iPad to just quick hits that I jot here and there. I guess iPhone/iPad notes will then get synced over iCloud but will not end up in Outlook. What a pain in the arse! I need a seriously freaking flow chart to keep track of all of my cloud activity. It's making my head spin.

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A consumer can use it, if they have a connection to an MS Exchange Server. Don't say it's not fair, it a supported feature of certain back-end systems that you don't use. It's a feature that Microsoft has chosen to develop and include with Exchange.
Saying it's not fair makes you sound like a whiner who wants the government, or some NGO body, to dictate what feature are and will be supported by all mobile phones.
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Does Apple have a why to backup iphones over the air to a internal server? or is icloud the only options???

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Unable to sync iPhone over USB - MobileMe settings SNAFU!

I've been using my iPhone for about a month without enabling its MobileMe sync settings for my contacts, calendars and bookmarks. This was by mistake.
Now I would like to turn on those settings. However, when I try to do that I am told it will erase the existing contacts in my iphone. This is unacceptable as I have added new contacts in my phone over the last month and would simply like to merge them with the contacts on my computer.
The obvious solution is to sync my iPone with with my computer via USB and iTunes, then sync my computer with my MobileMe account, then enable MobileMe syncing on my iPhone and overwrite everything with the thoroughly updated info.
HOWEVER
This simply will not work. I can't sync my iPhone with my computer because iTunes keeps telling me that "Your contacts are being synced with your iPhone over the air from MobileMe." This is happening DESPITE the fact that I have turned off all of the MobileMe syncing options on both my iPhone and my computer. To be more specific, on the iPhone under HomeScreen/Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars/Accounts/MacIMAP - all of the sync settings are set to "Off." Moreover, under Homescreen/Settings/FetchNewData - the Push option is set to "Off".
All of this and iTunes still insists that my phone wants to sync over the air from MobileMe.
Why can't I convince my computer that the phone settings are off and thus enable USB synching??
Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated!
And happy Thanksgiving, by the way!

You're welcome.
An IMAP account is specifically designed for this.
POP accounts are more common than IMAP accounts, but IMAP accounts are not being phased out - not by a long shot. Supporting SSL for the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server is up to the email account provider for the email account. Some POP account providers support this, and some don't. I've never accessed a POP account provided by an ISP that supported SSL or provided an authenticated SMTP server.
A MobileMe account is accessed as an IMAP account, and Apple supports SSL for the incoming and outgoing mail server, and the outgoing mail server is also authenticated.
You can access a Yahoo account as an IMAP account with the iPhone's Mail client only - not with an email client on your computer.
You can access a Gmail account as an IMAP account with any email client.

Moblie me over the air

Question on mobile me. I'm pretty sure this is now it works but I want to make sure. If I add a calender event from my iPhone and will it show up on my wifes iPhone over the air?

On your iPhone, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Select your MobileMe account.
Turn Bookmarks off for over the air syncing.
You should be provided a warning message indicating all bookmarks will be removed from your iPhone. If you are also provided a prompt to store the bookmarks locally on your iPhone, decline the prompt.
Follow this by turning Bookmarks back on for over the air syncing.

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Have anyone managed to distribute your development app to another iphone Over The Air?
I have been giving out adhoc apps to clients by including their UDIDs into a distributable license and recompile my flash iphone project again and again...
You can imagine how troublesome it is, as long as one more customer want to view it, i need to get their UDID, and then i have to edit the license and include that UDID and then recompile the flash project AGain......
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OMG.
That flash project doesnt have to be compiled again?
I definitely have to try this out as i have been stupidly doing tat all the time...
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Can multiple iphones with multiple itunes accounts be synced to one mac keeping apps seperate over the air?

We have about 20 iPhone's in our environment and syncing and updating them has become a real chore lately. Everyone has their own iTunes account and apps that they use. Is there a way that they can be synced, backed up and updated over the air (not iCloud) to the same MAC? Because we are in the financial sector we will not be able to use iCloud. Should we look into some sort of private cloud and if so; any suggestions on how to accomplish it would be greatly appreciated.
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We have several macs, several ipods, a couple of iphones, several itunes store accounts. So far no problem. You might have to share passwords if you want to share content. I think iStore accounts can only be used on up to 5 computers. We have 7, so have to be a little careful about that. I don't think there is a limit on how many iDevices can be used with one account. I also don't think there is a limit on how many accounts can be used on a single computer (might be wrong about that). You have to be logged into the iStore to download content, and your computer has to be registered with the account to use the content, but once it is on, and registered, syncing to an iPod is not a problem (you do not have to login in again for each account the content was purchased from). I'm just glad I only have two kids, and one wife - things could get trickier in a big family with . . .

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