August 2008
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 33m
English
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Manual Syncing
OK, but what if you don't want iTunes to fire up and start syncing every time you connect your iPhone? What if, for example, you want to change the assortment of music and video that's about to get copied to it? Or what if you just don't like matters being taken out of your hands, because it reminds you too much of robot overlords?
In that case, you can stop the autosyncing in four different ways:
Interrupt a sync in progress. Click the
button in the iTunes status window until the syncing stops.Stop iTunes from syncing the iPhone just this time. As you plug in the iPhone's cable, hold down the Shift+Control keys (Windows) or the ⌘-Option keys (Mac) until the iPhone pops up in the iTunes window. Now you can see what's on the iPhone and change what will be synced to it—but no syncing takes place until you command it.
Stop iTunes from automatically syncing from now on. Connect the two, click the iPhone icon, and then click the Summary tab; there, turn off Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected, and then click Apply. iTunes will no longer open automatically when you connect the phone, and therefore it won't sync.
Stop iTunes from autosyncing any iPhone, ever. In iTunes, choose Edit→Preferences (Windows) or iTunes→Preferences (Mac). Click the Syncing tab and turn on Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones. (This setting overrides the Automatically sync setting described ...
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