Comments on: Wi-Fi Sync Not Working? Here’s How to Fix it for All iOS Devices

By: cashxx

cashxx — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:42:52 +0000

AppleMobileDeviceHelper never runs, neither while iTunes is open or closed. Only way to get it to kick in is have iTunes open and flip off my WiFi and turn it back on I am finding out.

Don’t think I have to have iTunes open, but thats how I have tested it and works every time.

My macbook is usually woken from sleep I wonder if that has something to do with it. Don’t think so because a reboot doesn’t fix it either. Not sure, strange bug but atleast I finally found a workaround. Been months since I seen wifi sync work at all on my iPhone 4S.

By: cashxx

cashxx — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:01:52 +0000

I just found out on my macbook if I turn off wifi on my laptop and turn it back on then my iPhone shows in iTunes.

By: George

George — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:43:51 +0000

wow – been fooling around with this iPad to PC sync for an hour or two. Restarting the service worked for me, thanks so much.

iPad Retina
PC Windows 7

By: Mb

Mb — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:35:04 +0000

No that is just letting you know it will sync AUTOMATICALLY when you have wi-fi syncing turned on and are connected to a power source.

You can manually sync over wi-fi anytime by pressing sync either on your iPhone or by clicking sync inside of iTunes. I’m syncing right now over wi-fi and don’t have my iPod plugged into a power source. I just clicked sync and off it went. Of course I also have to restart Applemobiledevice sometimes as we’ll.

Thanks so much for this web page!!

By: Landon

Landon — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:14:07 +0000

i’m not certain i understand this correctly, but ios 6.1.2 says on the settings>general>sync w/ wifi that the phone will sync wirelessly once it is connected to a power source… if the phone has to be plugged into the wall or some other power source, it seems to defeat the whole purpose of wifi syncing…

By: Bernard Safatly

Bernard Safatly — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:52:37 +0000

I succeeded to sync over wifi, thanks

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:51:37 +0000

Should be “…can’t remember…”

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:28:43 +0000

I’ve tried all the suggestions and nothing works. The only way to get iTunes to recognize my iPhone is to shut it down and restart, but that causes other issues (i.e., Messages endless login loop), or I can simply use the cable. I have to say that I can remember any time in Apple’s history that there have been so many annoying issues with hardware.

By: vdiv

vdiv — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:28:44 +0000

Agree. For year Microsoft suffered with getting ActiveSync to properly work with PocketPC devices. It is not a trivial matter.

The suggested work-arounds are temporary at best. Apple customers by far are not hackers, they don’t want to try things, they just want them working seamlessly.

By: david

david — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:17:18 +0000

yeah, this is not a one-size-fits-all fix. it’s not help for me. my iPad, Apple TV and iPhone still aren’t recognized by my PC.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:06:52 +0000

Correct, sometimes AppleMobileDeviceHelper continues to run even with iTunes not open, particularly in Windows. In that case, kill it before relaunching iTunes, though you’ll still want to go through the steps provided if the iOS device doesn’t appear in iTunes.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:04:23 +0000

The instructions have been clarified to relaunch iTunes after the fact, thanks for the heads up! The exe can run without iTunes open in Windows, though that seems rare on the Mac side of the equation. Either way killing the process continues to work to get wireless syncing functioning again in most cases. Hopefully that helps!

By: matt

matt — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:01:50 +0000

That’s probably why it works, if APple Mobile Device is running after quitting iTunes clearly something is wrong

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:02:48 +0000

I has issues depending on wether my MBP is on wifi or ethernet. This is because the router assigns a different host name to the laptop, depending on the MAC address it detects. I have to plug it in with USB to re-enable the wifi syncing.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:13:09 +0000

After many many many tries to have wifi syncing working flawlessly this looked promising, but it still doesn’t work reliably on my pc. Sometimes it works, but mostly iTunes loses connection to my iphone 4S. Why apple switches on “Use Cellular Data for iTunes” by default is beyond me and most people don’t even know that. I found that out a couple of weeks ago and I thought switching it off would cure this problem, but sadly not.

I know a lot of people are having issues with this for a long, long time and apple still hasn’t fixed it. Hopefully this article will wake ‘m up.