Syncing 2 Iphones to 1 Itunes
Can you sync two Iphones to one Itunes and it keep all the apps, music, etc separate?
Do you have iTunes set to sync automatically when an iPod or iPhone is connected?
If so, you should disable this. Go to Tunes > Preferences and under the Devices tab select prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically.
With your iPhone connected, select what you want transferred to your iPhone and synced with your iPhone under the various tabs for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
Your husband does the same under the various tabs for his iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
Whatever you have selected under the various tabs for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes should be saved separately with your iPhone from what your husband has selected under the various tabs for his iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
Is your iPhone named differently from your husband's iPhone? If not, this shouldn't make a difference with this but it may.
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I get an error message when I sync my iPhone 5 with iTunes on my Windows 7 Samsung laptop. I recently backed up all of my data using Samsung Recovery Solution 5 to an external hard drive so that I could restore my laptop. I put all of my data back on the restored laptop and reinstalled iTunes. After the error message that says that certain items could not be found and the "sync" is finished I go back to my music in iTunes and there are exclamation marks next to many songs. I follow some instructions regarding the Edit - Preferences - Advanced settings and the exclamation marks go away until I try to sync my phone again. Then I get the same error message and the exclamation marks return. I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes and the same thing happens again. I am about to schedule an appointment with the Genius Bar but would like to avoid that if possible. Thank you in advance for any help.
Hello Courtney,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing when syncing your music to your iPhone. It sounds like iTunes is not able to locate the original file for the song to transfer it to your device. I recommend reviewing the following articles to locate you music files on your computer:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408
Where are my iTunes files located?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M. -
HT4623 how do i sync my iphone with new itunes? I cant find the sync button
how do i sync my iphone with new itunes? I cant find the sync button
The same way you would sync with any other version of iTunes.
Connect the device.
Select the device.
Select Sync.
In the new version of iTunes, the sidebar is disabled by default. With a device connected, it will be listed in the upper right hand corner.
If you want the side bar back, type Cntrl + S. -
How do i sync my iPhone with my itunes?
How do I sync my iPhone to my itunes? I already have an itunes set up with music from my ipod touch but when i plug in my iphone nothing happens.
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows -
Erratic syncing on iPhone 5s with iTunes 11
I am going crazy trying to sync my iPhone 5s with iTunes 11.1.3.8. There is plenty of space as my iPhone is 64gb with apparantly 36.5gb available. Approx. 15.4gb of this is currently taken up by music, but it should be far more. I don't know if it is an iTunes problem or an iPhone problem - or both!
I've always added music to my iPhone manually by dragging folders on to the device in iTunes (with "manually manage music" ticked in the settings). This never used to cause any problems, and I prefer it to having all my music choices in iTunes as I have different devices with different capacity etc.
Since using my new iPhone, syncing is going wrong every time in strange and unpredictable ways:
1. Not all the music will sync, seemingly at random.
Some albums have the grey circle next to them and won't add whether I delete and re-add or not
Some albums had the grey circle but synced when I deleted and re-added (these are the same type of files and from the same source as the ones that still don't sync)
Some music suddenly shows up with the ! symbol and won't sync, for no reason - sometimes this is even a random selection of tracks on the same album stored in the same location.
Some music appears in iTunes as though it is on the device, but doesn't show in the iPhone e.g. out of dozens of Bowie songs only 2 show up on the phone
The last time I synced I added an audiobook of short stories, with each story as a track. When I went to listen to it this morning, around two thirds of the tracks had randomly disappeared. After syncing they seem to be back, but I have no idea why they vanished last time and if it will happen again.
Sometimes after syncing a whole playlist will have gone blank in the iPhone i.e. tracks aren't there, but when I connect to iTunes the playlist appears as it should be. Syncing sometimes fixes this, but might then empty another playlist...
2. I manually set compilation albums to "sort by album artist" e.g. changing my short stories audiobook to show under Artists as "Short Stories" rather than each author as an album with 1 track. At random, when I am looking through artists on my iPhone I notice that one or two albums have ungrouped, even though I didn't touch any settings in between.
3. When I'm connected to iTunes the usage bar at the bottom seems to fluctuate randomly sometimes. Currently, having just synced, it shows 15.4gb audio with 36.44gb free. Ok now I added 1 album which is 92.5mb and synced - just that one chance.. Usage bar now reads 21.76gb audio with 30.08gb free. Now I'm adding a 173mb folder of 2 albums and syncing. Usage bar now reads 15.51gb with 36.16gb free. Somehow after adding 3 albums and not changing anything else, I end up with more space than before??
I'm at a loss as to why iTunes/my iPhone is behaving so erratically. Perhaps the above are seperate, unrelated problems, but I'm writing them all here in case they are all linked to one problem.
I have tried syncing using the original cable and over wifi. Have also rebooted the phone and restarted, to no avail.
Please help me with some suggestions of what is going on and how to fix it? Let me know if you need any more info.Hit there tayls22,
It sounds as if you are having some issues with your ability to create a backup in iTunes of your iPhone, which prevents you from completing the sync process. I have an article for you that can help you troubleshoot this issue further, and it can be found below:
If you can't back up or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod using iTunes - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203271
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden -
Wifi sync 2 iPhones in one iTunes with different Apple-ID's.
Wifi sync 2 iPhones in one iTunes with different Apple-ID's. My Phone will show up in iTunes, my wife's wont. After plugging my wife's phone into my Win 8.1 pc and check Sync over wifi, I hit the eject button, could this be the reason? Or might it be the different Apple-ID's? If the answer is the first, is there any way tohave iTunes forgetmy wife's phone so I can addit from scratch?
Ello,
I know this, but thats in the past now sadly. The question is: Why wont my wife's iPhone show up in iTunes via wifi?
Is it because I pushed the eject button? And if so, is there any way I can make iTunes forget my wife's iPhone and *** it from scratch again?
Or is it because the phones uses different Apple-ID's? -
Syncing an Iphone with multiple Itunes accounts
I recently traveled with my Iphone and when at my brother's place, I logged in to Itunes with my ID, purchased some tv shows for my daughter and was able to sync them to my phone. When I got home and synced with my own laptop, it told me it had to sync with my existing IPhone information and I would lose anything that wasn't in there. So I synced and the shows are now gone from my phone and my Itunes purchases. Isn't there a way to purchase where it downloads into Itunes store but it follows you b/c of the fact that you logged in to purchase it? I paid for those items so I feel like I should still be seeing them in my Itunes account here.
Did I just do something wrong? I have a Iphone G3.
Thanks!For media content - music, videos and movies - and apps, you can only sync an iPhone to one iTunes library. There's no way around that. So that's why you had the issue when you connected the iPhone to your home computer again. Anything that is not in your home iTunes library will indeed be erased from the iPhone.
Further, if you purchase an item from the iTunes Store on another computer, then with the exception of apps, you get only one download per purchase. So if you buy anything other than an iPhone app on any other computer, it will be your responsibility to either make sure it transfers to your computer from the iPhone - you do not let the iPhone automatically sync when you connect it, then you use the "Transfer Purchases from iPod" command under the File menu in iTunes to copy the purchased content from your iPhone - or you copy it from the computer to your own via a flash drive, CD, etc.
Regards. -
I have an iPhone sync'd to my iTunes. My boyfriend has his own iPhone with his iTunes account set up within it. We want to sync his iPhone to my iTunes account on the PC but we want to retain everything from both phones and the iTunes account. Is this possible? Help!
zoe1713 wrote:
Is this possible?
No. If you connect his phone to your iTunes account/computer, ALL iTunes content on his phone will be erased. By design, iPhone syncs or manually manages iTunes content with ONE computer at a time. -
How can I sync my iphone 3gs with iTunes?
How can sync My iPhone 3Gs with iTunes? My phone is activated, but not in service. It's connected to my computer and I have downloaded iTUNES onto my PC?
Please use the confidential forums created for this purpose:
iOS 5 beta -
When I sync my iphone 4S using iTunes it only syncs 8.5GB of music, not the entore library as specified. Is there a capcity default limit of the amount of storage that can be used for music and if so how do I change it?
The only limit is that of the device. No restrictions on how much of it you can use for music. Is part of your music library unchecked?
tt2 -
Every time I sync my iPhone 4 with iTunes the number of my custom ring tones change. I have 7 custom ring tones listed. The first time it will load 1 of the ring tones and the next time it will load 3, The next time it will be back to 1. If I have assigned one of the custom ring tones and it does not get loaded it goes back to the ring tone that came with the phone. The last time itunes gave me 4 of the 7 so I have not tried to sync it again. I am using iTunes 10 (10.4.10), and windows 7.
Has anyone else had this problem??
Any ideas to what I need to do??Have you ever had all 7 of them synced before? Are these ringtones you made yourself? Is there a chance they could exceed 30 seconds in length? Is there a chance you have moved the original file location on the computer? May need the answers to a couple more questions to try and determine an answer.
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Im having major problems syncing my iphone 4 to itunes, this problem started after upgrading to ios 5. I have upgraded my itunes, turned sync by wifi on and off but still nothing. Everytime I try to sync my iphone it just says sync cancelled. Please help.....
I'm having the same problem ! Each time the sync starts it suddenly stops and says finished syncing
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I cannot sync my iphone to my itunes account on the computer. I get the following message: " iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. An unknown error occured (-3212). Make sure our network connection is active and try again." Has anyone else had this problem?
Did you find a resolution as I'm having same problem?
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After syncing my iphone to my itunes on my pc, all the music on my phone is gone. I don't have a backup. Is there any way I can get them back?
If you had no other backup....NOPE! However, if you purchased your songs from iTunes, check out: iTunes Store - Finding Lost Music FAQ
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I recently synced my iphone 5s to itunes. It erased my photos and I can not locate them on itunes. They are nowhere to be found. How can I restore them back to my phone?
Restore them from where?
The pic sync is one way - computer to iPhone.
You should be storing all of your photos on your computer. Jut sync them to your iPhone. -
I have had my Iphone 5 for a little while now and today I connected it to Itunes to download a movie to my phone. I thought I had to restore the phone so I restored it back to my iphone 4. I deleted all the new ringtones I just bought and I lost all photos and notes I had on my iphone 5. Is there a way to unsync?? Is there a way to recover what I lost. I downloaded wondershare but I can't recover from an Iphone 5 and I hadn't synced the iphone 5 with itunes until today but again i restored it back to iphone 4 data.
It can not do that all by itself.
When you plugged it in, iTunes said 'Oh goody! You got a new phone! Would you like to make it just like your old phone?'...
You explicitly said 'Yes'.
You can't undo that.
No backup of the current state of the new phone was made. It was wiped and the last backup of your old phone was restored to it.
Anything you had on the new phone is gone.
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