Saturday, July 10, 2010

How to Sync iPhone to New Computer - The easy way :)

There are a lot of how to's online about the subject of "How to sync your iPhone to your new computer" but none of them show you how to do it the easy way. They all have some elaborate and complicated method of doing so, which is almost impossible for novice computer users to follow. I looked into this because when my sister bought a new computer she could not find an easy way of syncing her iPhone to her new computer. So, please follow the below "how to" to accomplish this task easily:

- First copy your entire iTunes folder from old computer to an usb drive.
- On your new computer install iTunes, then go to your My Music folder and delete the iTunes folder already located there.
- Now plug in the usb drive and copy the iTunes folder which you copied from your old computer into your My Music folder on the new computer.
- Once you have completed the copy process, open your iTunes program and attach your iPhone to your new computer.
- You'll notice that it did not ask you to erase and sync your iPhone this time, if it still does you have done something wrong and have to go back and copy the iTunes folder again and make sure you delete the existing iTunes folder before you paste iTunes folder from your old computer.
- Once your iPhone is attached to your new computer, after iTunes folder has been successfully copied and pasted from the old one, it would start to sync with your new computer :)
- Now after the sync is complete you'll see your iPhone listed in iTunes and once you click it you'll see all your app's, music etc... but you will not see App's in iTunes menu.
- To finish this off you'll have to download any free app, after you authorize your new computer, and after it finishes just simply sync your iPhone with iTunes again and you'll be able to see App's link in the iTunes menu.

Now if you follow the steps patiently and do everything I have mentioned you'll be able to move your iPhone to your new computer easily.

Good Luck. Enjoy!