Sync stalls at waiting for changes to be applied

Can anyone fix this, its driving me round the bend. Brand new Ipod Touch 5th Generation won’t complete a sync. It gets stuck on the last step - "Waiting for changes to be applied". I've looked at many different forums but all the information is just misleading. There must be a definitive answer to this, all software is up to date. I've been an Itunes user for 6 years on my 3rd Ipod, this is just intolerable, if I can’t find a solution this time then I'm finished with Apple and Itunes. Please help.

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Whenever I try to sync my ipod, it'll say that it's syncing and then "waiting for changes to be applied" when it reaches step 5, then it closes and nothing happens. I don't know what to do :(

Whenever I try to sync my ipod, it'll say that it's syncing and then "waiting for changes to be applied" when it reaches step 5, then it closes and nothing happens. I don't know what to do

Hi, There
What do you mean nothing happends? because after step 5/5 the sync is complete and it should go back to the normal top screen of itunes. Is this what is happning? of is it freezing on step 5?
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I recently updated itunes to version 12.0.1.26. I have an Iphone 5 - with ios 8.1.1.
When I tried to sync my iphone to itunes, it constantly gets stuck on "step 6 of 6 - waiting for changes to be applied"
The only songs I now have access to on my iphone are songs I have downloaded through itunes - none of the music I previously had on my phone from CDs or other sources. It also made my videos unaccessable.
I am really frustrated as I have spent hours trying to fix this. Every time I update my itunes I have a different problem. I have read many other questions with the same issue over the years - but there never seems to be an answer or solution.
Thanks in advance for help!

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I clicked on "Restore iPhone..." which does a complete reinstall of the iOS but also all apps, photos, songs, etc. Took about 45 minutes, but seems to have worked.
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HT201263 using windows 8 computer, ipad sync stuck on 'waiting for changed to be applied'

Hi
I have downloaded some movies to my computer with digital copy, and would like to sync them to the ipad. Computer runs on Windows 8, with iTunes 11.1.1.11. Ipad runs on iOS 7.0.2. When I sync, the process stops at 'waiting for changes to be applied'. It seems to hang up there. What can I do?
Thanks!

I really don't appreciate the fact that no one from Apple seems to be dealing with the many, many threads that have started on this topic since iOS 7 came out. In any event, I seem to have solved my problem with a full software restoration -- that is, iOS software restoration.
I clicked on "Restore iPhone..." which does a complete reinstall of the iOS but also all apps, photos, songs, etc. Took about 45 minutes, but seems to have worked.
I had previously tried reverting to a backup of my iPhone, but that did not solve the problem. Only a full restore solved it.

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I spent time restoring the full iPad, erased everything, put it back again...still stuck over and over again....
And now the good news is : THere is no song left on my iPad > Nothing I lost everything.
It have looked in this blog, it seems that people have been suffering on this issue for months and months.
I was about to buy the iPhone6...but frankly, Apple products =yncing is becoming a nightmare.
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I have an ipad Mini running on IOS8. A Mac book Air running on OS X 10.9.5.
For hours and hours I have been trying to synce my iPad, and syncing is stuck on "Waiting for Changes to be applied"
I spent time restoring the full iPad, erased everything, put it back again...still stuck over and over again....
And now the good news is : THere is no song left on my iPad > Nothing I lost everything.
It have looked in this blog, it seems that people have been suffering on this issue for months and months.
I was about to buy the iPhone6...but frankly, Apple products =yncing is becoming a nightmare.
please APPLE do sometihng about, fix it NOW if you want people to purchase your products. The very reason why Apple WAS so successful was because of the simplicity. All this is gone now. Now you need to become an IT expert and spend hours getting into the systems to fix this or that yourself.
Please apple DO SOMETHING NOW QUICK.

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I really don't appreciate the fact that no one from Apple seems to be dealing with the many, many threads that have started on this topic since iOS 7 came out. In any event, I seem to have solved my problem with a full software restoration -- that is, iOS software restoration.
I clicked on "Restore iPhone..." which does a complete reinstall of the iOS but also all apps, photos, songs, etc. Took about 45 minutes, but seems to have worked.
I had previously tried reverting to a backup of my iPhone, but that did not solve the problem. Only a full restore solved it.

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Anyone else having this problem?

I'm curious if the folks on this or the other threads dedicated to this problem have pretty substantial (say, over 25 GB) music files.
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Hi all,
Apologies: I've just joined the community and didn't quite figure how to write a msg! Hope it works...
Anyway,
I read many posts on this annoying error message (Waiting for changes to be applied) in the last 2/3 days, but they all refer to the sync staying stuck on it.
Mine doesn't.
I read the message, then it quickly shuts down the sync and the iTunes progress bar only shows the apple...
As suggested by many, I removed voice msgs, turned off/on, tried to sync in individual stages (calendar only...) but nothing works.
I am up to date on iTunes (11.1.1.11) and have IOS 6.1.3 on my phone, to sync on a Win8 pc (all worked fine until recently).
I have had this phone for several years and it has never done this.
It worked absolutely fine, until I loaded the latest version of iTunes it seems...
Any suggestions?
Many thanks

ALSO, on the iPod under Settings>General>iTunes Sync, you may need to back out of the "iTunes Wi-fi Sync," and reopen it to get it to update.
(I use iTunes 11.1.5.5)

Solution: Syncing with my iTunes library an endless headache: Songs don't transfer, or songs transfer and show up as "other," or I get double copies, or "Over Capacity," or stuck on "waiting for changes to be applied."

iPod Touch 5g, 64GB, iOS 7.1. After my iPod data began showing up "Other," after an abrupt disconnection from iTunes during a sync I've spent the last week trying to fix it only to be thwarted at every attempt. I've tried resetting and restoring 6 or 7 times now, and all goes well until it gets to copying my library of music over. What I finally figured out is that 8,000+ songs is too many for iTunes to process all at once for some reason.
After several nights of leaving it connected all night I would find that the songs had physically copied and were occupying the ~45 gb of space on my iPod's storage, but were not showing up on my local library, instead listed as "Other" in iTunes and otherwise unusuable, or they would show up, but I'd have ~45 gigs of "Other," 45 gigs of "Audio," and would be "Over Capacity," by 30 gigs or so. OR it would be "Waiting for Changes to be Applied," for 12+ hours.
My work around: In iTunes, under the "Music" / "Sync Music" tab, instead of syncing "Entire Music Library," select "Selected Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Genres." You will have to indivually select the playlists, artists, albums, or genres and kept each bulk tansfer to <2000 songs at a time. The easiest way for me to do this was by selecting one genre at a time and copying it over. I had already taken the time to organize my library into 10 genres, you probably have more than 10. This is irritating and time consuming, but it's better than resetting my iPod over and over and over again to no avail.
Waiting for Changes? What iTunes is actually doing when it says it is "Waiting for Changes," or "Waiting for Items to Copy." iTunes for whatever reason does not reveal the relevent data being processed during a sync (didn't it used to?), but there are a couple ways you can decipher what it is actually up to. The first option is on the iPod; under Settings>General>iTunes Wi-Fi Sync it will tell you what it is up to during syncing. The other way on the iPod; under Music>Songs, scroll all the way to the bottom to see where it is at in the process. What iTunes, iTunes Wi-Fi Sync, and the bottom of the Songs library report are not always in agreement, but seeing all three will give you a better approximation of where you are in the syncing process and whether or not it is hanging.
This for me was successful as a workaround, but this is not a solution. Apple needs to fix this crap. Maybe they just want to make it so difficult to have a physical library of music on the local storage of the iPod that we will just give up and sign up for their Match service.

ALSO, on the iPod under Settings>General>iTunes Sync, you may need to back out of the "iTunes Wi-fi Sync," and reopen it to get it to update.
(I use iTunes 11.1.5.5)

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Alright, so I reset my computer and suddenly it then recovered. Other times it wouldn't recover after resetting the computer, so I have no idea how it happened. I just restarted the computer lots of time and finally it worked.
Okay, back to square one. Now to transfer music, I tried my previous acknowledgable solutions but they didn't work. The iPod touch does not feature a hard-disk mode, and windows media player doesn't support iPods.
I've tried multiple programs to transfer music but none of them work properly and keep giving me error codes. So my iPod still gets stuck at Step 4: Waiting for changes to be applied or whatever it said.
Thanks in advance ._. (Please help)
p.s - Apple is useless. If I don't get steady answers tomorrow I'm going to end up calling them and get this problem fixed first hand. Second hand? I don't know, over the **** phone.
juiceb0xk signing out for the night. Bye. >:(

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The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.
If you bought the product in the U.S. directly from Apple (not from a reseller), you have 14 days from the date of delivery in which to exchange or return it for a refund. In other countries, the return policy may be different. If you bought from a reseller, its return policy applies.

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