Matt Cone February 6, 2013 Tutorials iPhone Community
For years, the one option to sync the music, films, images, and different content material in your Mac was to bodily join it to your iPhone with a USB cable. In fact, that’s nonetheless an possibility. However when you personal an iPhone working iOS 5 or later and a Mac with iTunes 10.5 or later, there’s a good higher option to sync content material to your iPhone: wirelessly and robotically. This tutorial exhibits you the way to reduce the wire.
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What to Anticipate
Wi-fi syncing is much like syncing over USB. Relying on the choices you may have chosen in iTunes, your iPhone will likely be backed as much as your Mac or iCloud account, and the entire content material you’ve chosen to sync - music, apps, films, TV exhibits, images, books, and many others. - will likely be transferred out of your Mac to your iPhone, and out of your iPhone to your Mac.
Syncing can happen when each units are turned on, related to the identical wi-fi community, and the iPhone is plugged in to an exterior energy supply (like the facility adapter or a speaker system).
When you allow wi-fi syncing, you possibly can configure the iPhone to robotically sync along with your Mac. When you’d choose to proceed manually syncing your iPhone, you possibly can go away the automated sync possibility turned off. However when you do this, you’ll have to recollect to click on Sync each time you wish to synchronize content material.
Enabling Wi-fi Syncing on an iPhone
To allow this characteristic, you’ll want to attach your iPhone to the Mac with the USB cable. Don’t fear - that is the final time you’ll ever have to attach your iPhone with the USB cable once more. As soon as wi-fi syncing is turned on, you possibly can switch the whole lot wirelessly. Right here’s the way to allow wi-fi synchronizing on your iPhone:
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In your Mac, open the iTunes software.
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Join your iPhone to your Mac with the USB cable.
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Click on the iPhone button in iTunes, as proven under. The iPhone settings seem.
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Choose the Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi checkbox, as proven under. This may enable your iPhone to sync along with your Mac when each units are related to the identical wi-fi community.
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Non-compulsory: Choose the Routinely sync when this iPhone is related checkbox. This automates the synchronization course of so that you don’t need to manually begin the synchronization by clicking the Sync button.
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To save lots of the settings, click on the Apply button within the lower-right nook.
Congratulations! You’ve enabled wi-fi syncing in your iPhone!
Syncing Your iPhone Wirelessly
When you chosen the Routinely sync when this iPhone is related checkbox within the earlier part, you gained’t have to fret about manually syncing - the whole lot will occur robotically. However when you didn’t choose the automated sync checkbox, or when you simply wish to manually sync your iPhone, you’ll must comply with these steps.
First, double test that each the iPhone and Mac are prepared for wi-fi syncing:
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Confirm that each units are turned on and related to the identical wi-fi community.
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Join your iPhone to an exterior energy supply, if it's not already related to at least one.
Right here’s the way to begin the sync manually out of your Mac:
- Open the iTunes software.
- Click on the iPhone button within the top-right nook. The iPhone settings seem.
- Click on the Apply button within the lower-right nook. The iPhone will begin syncing along with your Mac.
Right here’s the way to begin the sync manually out of your iPhone:
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From the house display screen, faucet Settings.
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Faucet Normal.
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Faucet iTunes Wi-Fi Sync. The display screen proven under seems.
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Faucet Sync Now. The iPhone will begin syncing along with your Mac.
On a facet observe, the Wi-Fi Sync characteristic on the iPhone is considerably buggy. If the Sync Now button is grayed out and you may’t faucet it, attempt quitting and reopening iTunes in your Mac. That ought to repair the issue!
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