Wireless sync in iOS5 beta reinstalls deleted apps

My iPhone is on iOS5 beta 4 and wireless sync is great. However, (and I don't think this has ever been the case before wireless sync) when I delete apps off of my iPhone and start a wireless sync, iTunes attemps to reinstall those apps. Unless I'm completely wrong in remembering how things were previously, I thought that once I deleted something off my phone, iTunes would know not to put it back on my phone.
Any help?

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My iPhone 4S says it is waiting for the iMac to become "available". The iPhone is set for wireless synch, the iMac is also on the same network, wifi is on for both, and I have restarted the iPhone. Next I tried it with my iPad 2 (updated to IOS5) and it says the same thing. There must be a setting on the iMac that I'm not doing correctly. Help anyone?

I have a very similar situation, and am curious if anyone has the same issue or knows the solution, or if I have an incorrect expectation of how this all is supposed to work.
I, too, have iOS5 on an iPhone 4, iTunes 10.5, 10.6.8 running on an iMac, the 'wireless sync' button selected in iTunes, and all are on the same network (an Apple Time Capsule), and I followed all the initial setup instructions, and the troubleshooting instructions from Apple.
When the computer is awake and iTunes is open, the iPhone and iTunes see each other fine, and the 'sync now' button is active (not grayed-out) on the iPhone. However, the only way a wireless sync will occur is if I manually select the 'sync now' button on the iPhone, or the 'sync' button in iTunes. By the way, the wireless sync occurs whether my iPhone is plugged into a charger or not.
I thought the wireless sync was supposed to initiate automatically any time the iPhone was connected to a power source. Am I wrong about that? If I'm not wrong, has anyone figured out hot to get the auto-wireless-sync working?

I need to make free space- - apps re-appearing when I sync- How do I permanently delete apps???

Im trying to sync my ipod from my computer. I have too much music and apps and I get an error message saying I have to delete a certain amount of space.
I delete apps-sync again- I get the same error message because the apps re-appear. Ive tried everything. I've unchecked them, I've dragged them, I have even restored the ipod so there is nothing on it. Can anyone PLEASE help??

lindatexmi wrote:
I know there must be a way to create space without deleting apps,
Delete other content such as movies, photos or music..

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I have updated both my iphone and Ipad2 to latest operating system, but tell me apple what the **** were you thinking?
1) Now I can't sync my photos on to my Ipad from my laptop, if I do it will delete all my Apps!
2) Icloud appears to be a waste of time - it does not up load photos at all
3) All photos that were on my Ipad have been deleted.
Honestly what a mess Apple, you have launched this update without sorting out the bugs users are having sever problems!!!, what I want to know is how are you going to resolve this!!. We pay top price for your equipment and this is waht we get...Rubbish

I lost absolutely nothing when I updated my iPad - never have - with any update.
Did you ever transfer the purchases from the iPad into your iTunes library in the past? If you had done so, I don't think that you would have received that message.
Transfer Purchases.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Have you tried syncing again with iTunes in order to transfer your photos back onto the iPad? If the photos are still in your iTunes library, select them to sync, while the computer is connected to the computer and while iTunes is running - and then sync again.
Apple can't hear you rant here. this is a user to user forum only.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

My iPad keeps reinstalling Apps on subsequent syncs that were originally successfully deleted by unchecking the App box in iTunes

I'm having problems with iTunes reinstalling Apps that I want on my iPhone, but not my iPad. Furthermore, my household uses home sharing and if an App is on one iPad, iTunes puts it on all the devices. I found that if if I'm in iTunes with the iPad connected, I can delete Apps by unselecting the box for the App and then syncing it. All unselected Apps will be deleted this way, but that's where my problem starts. With the very next sync, all of the previously deleted Apps are then reinstalled. It seems that as long as the App is in my library, iTunes will reinstall it. I tried deleting the Apps directly from the device, and they're still reinstalled. The only way I can delete the Apps successfully is by deleting the App by unchecking the box and then syncing. Then I must delete the App from all devices in my home sharing network as well as my library. Here is where it really gets frustrating. If I want the App back on my iPhone by reinstalling it directly to the iPhone, iTunes will add it back it to my iPad with the next sync. My only option so far seems to be to keep the Apps on all my devices, or none of my devices. To make matters worse, I have many of my daughter's Apps on my iPad and she has many of mine on her Mini-iPad (because of home sharing). Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I've been having the same problem with my iPad most recently, and I think I may have an answer. I have a lot of apps installed and more that are not installed. I sync with iTunes once every few months; however, I regularly update my apps directly on the iPad. Whenever I sync with my computer, iTunes will copy the latest purchases from my iPad (including the latest updates) to the computer.
What I've noticed is that iTunes only copies a few apps at a time. I'm guessing this is to speed up the syncing process. Every time I press Sync, even just having completed a sync, iTunes finds some more apps to copy over from the iPad. Imagine with 50 apps updated on the iPad since the last install, even if iTunes copies 10 apps per sync, it still takes 5 syncs to copy over all of the apps. I've also noticed that every time I try to remove an app when iTunes is going through these rounds of copying from the iPad, my removed apps get reinstalled.
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Sync delete app in one step, possible (as like 10.6.3 version) ?

Using XP 32bit with iTunes 11.1.3.8 and ios 7.0.4 on ipad 3, when deleting an app and syncing using the usb cord,
I have to do twice, so once in itunes library the other time in device app tab., this to have "aligned" same pc same ipad.
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So how to delete and sync the device only with one step (with iTunes 10.6.3 this was possible) ?
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Tried to reinstall 10.6 from DVD, but installation failed - twice.
Failed how?
What now? Disk Utility? Format Hard-drive? What is the best way of going about these things?
It's hard to give any specific recommendations without more information. You could simply have a third-party app that's acting up, or maybe your past reinstalls weren't done correctly. So it's possible that there are less drastic solutions than what I'm about to tell you to do. But, as you say, you just need it working, and sometimes a good "nuke & pave" is quicker than fiddling around.
Make sure you've got a good backup (see my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups>). Then, boot from the install disk and switch to Disk Utility. Erase the hard drive. When done, just for the heck of it, repair the drive. If there are problems, post back here.
Now quit Disk Utility and reinstall the system. Once you're done and booted into the new system, run Software Update and install all updates. After that's done and you've rebooted, do it again, continuing until Software Update says you're up-to-date. Now install any third-party apps from scratch, avoiding any initially that you don't absolutely need. (Install those later, once you know your system is stable, and has been for a while.)
Finally, import your data into the new account. I recommend the manual route, though you could also use Migration Assistant to import from a Time Machine backup or clone. If you use Migration assistant, you have to be cautious not to import a bunch of potentially damaged system settings files. (You'll want to reconfigure your network settings from scratch, for example, rather than importing those settings from the backup.) If you want to go the manual route but aren't sure where to find everything, let us know.

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As per topic above. Recently reformatted my computer before I was able to do any backups (Just couldn't get into Windows).
Now I have re-installed everything and have synced my iPhone with a new iTunes library, but I have not synced my apps as I am scared that whatever data on the apps on my iPhone will be deleted.
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Basically wjosten's advice worked for me. I had wiped my MBP and installed Snow Leopard but forgot to make a backup of my itunes library. My main concern was the app data. I followed the instructions but chickened out at step 8 when iTunes warned me that it would erase the phone and ..." so I cancelled to just make sure I had everything right but it went ahead and made some weird sync anyway which left about 20% of my apps on the phone. So I restored from that backup I made at Step 6 and this time said ok to the sync at step 8.
But then I checked the sync apps checkbox but either didn't realise or something happened that meant all the apps were unchecked. Next thing I see is "removing {app name}" which started freaking me out. I'm not sure what to do from this point so I started checking all the apps and pressed apply. However, it may work better if you cancel the sync but even better would be to have all apps checked in the first place. In the end end though I didn't loose any data - even on the apps that I saw getting removed just moments earlier. WOOHOO!!
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This was not helpful in any way and I am still unable to delete apps on my devices in a global, iTunes based way. Each device still requires its own independent process.

Match was off. I made all of the changes and then went through the "Turn on iTunes Match" option. I now have deleted some tracks, edited the Metadata in CDDA, and then added it back. This worked fine, but it is not a good solution.
I just tried making some edits and use the "Update iTunes Match" and that seemed to work. It looks like the real answer is that Match must be up and operational, then you can make changes and run the Update to incorporate the changes. However, if Match has a problem then Signing Out and back in to your store account and going through the process of Turning On Match (were you get the questions, "Add this Computer to Match" will overwrite any changes.
Since this relies on the stability of iTunes, I won't be making a lot of changes between updates.

I download apps directly to my iphone. When I sync with my laptop, how do I avoid having sync delete apps, photos, songs downloaded on my iphone?

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If I do only one of the two steps the deleted app remains still or on device or on iTunes library.
So how to delete and sync the device only with one step (with iTunes 10.6.3 this was possible) ?
If it is called sync it has to do sync or not ?
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11657508#11657508
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I do backup with iCloud. I can't wait until the new iMac is available so that I can once again have my files in more than 1 location without needing to rely solely on the cloud.
I also rely on iTunes and my MacBook and Time Machine as well as backing up to iCloud. I know many users know have gone totally PC free, but I chose to use iCloud merely as my third backup.
I assume that the restore would result in my ability to open Pages and Numbers and fix the problem with deleting apps, but this would also mean that if my Numbers documents still exist solely within the app and are just not on iCloud for some reason that they would be gone forever. Is that right?
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