Over the air sync can be changed on your iPhone

Are you a mobileme subscriber? If so, go to start-->control panel-->mobileme preferences-->sync tab. It will show you what address book etc. that you are syncing with. If you change the contacts drop down to windows address book, that should repopulate your contacts on your phone.

Michael

Go to settings-->mail, contacts, calendars..-->mobileme account. You can slide all of the sync switches to off to disable mobileme syncing. Connect to itunes and you should have to the option to change what you sync with under info.

Michael

I have a mobileme account, but I am also trying to disable it on my iPhone because it keeps screwing up my calendars. I tried to follow the steps you outline here, but I do not have "mobileme account" available in my settings. How is that possible?!

Maybe it is called .Mac account still like in my iphone..

Settngs > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > then in the list of your e-mail addresses you should see an @me.com address, click it.

From there you should be able to turn off contact syncing or erase the account all together.

i have the same problem. in itunes it says " over the air...changed on your iphone." but the only thing i have under settings>mail,contacts,calendars>accounts is my gmail and my hotmail account. I had mobile me, but i only used for the 60 day trial period. I didn't like it, but now i can't switch the sync setting in my itunes. HELP!

Jimbo, I had the same problem as you. I have a work and my personal account and work calendars were syncing fine until last week. Here is what I did to fix the problem and it worked. I just uninstalled my work account and then installed it following all the settings I used before. When your account gets verified you will have an option to sync your calendar, so select ON. Miraculously everything started working fine again once when I set my account from scratch. Hope it works for you as well!

Hi there Boris, i tried the same you did, went to my iphone and deleted my email acct, then i added it again using the same settings... after i went to my iTunes and tried to select the Calendar ync options via the Info Tab and i get the same message... "Over the air sync can be changed on your iPhone. "

Any ideas what i might be doing wrong?

Appreciate your help! Thanks!

Hi,
I did the same thing deleted my email account and recreated it, went with the same settings and same issues.
I certainly am not a Mac or iPhone expert, but I can tell you what happened to me then. I obviously had the same issue with "over air sync can be changed on your iphone" and my contacts had been wiped out. I was concerned as I had lost all my contacts off the iphone however my mobileme account had all of the contacts there. I found that all I had to do was give it some time to really sync between mobileme and the iphone contacts. I was being too impatient expecting them to appear instantly once I agreed to the sync with mobileme. I left it for a few hours and the contacts finally syncd.
Hope this helps

Hi Suzy, i'm trying to sync my iCal (MAC) with my iPhone... but i am not able to do it.
Any ideas on this?

Thank you! Solved the problem! It was driving me nuts! I thought I was crazy, I could somehow turn it off but how do I get it back on...finally, I googled it and found your post.

i'm having the same basic problem; i haven't had a mobileme account for about six months and have nothing relating to mobileme anywhere on my phone, but my contacts, calendars and browser bookmarks all think they're being synched by mobileme and that i can change the settings on my phone. i want to correct all of this, of course, but the thing that's bothering me most at the moment is my contacts. i have some very important contacts in my Address Book that i need to have on my phone and i'd REALLY rather not have to enter them into my phone manually. how do i make them sync?

thank you...

Two issues are happening here.
First, on the iPhone to change your Sync preferences:
1. Under Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Select your MobileMe account (does it exist still?)
2. If it still exists, Turn off the Over-The-Air Sync Sync options for Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks.

To Continue Syncing:
You can no longer sync over-the-air.
You must set you Address Book to sync to your iPhone in your iPhone Device Info Tab in iTunes.
(a.k.a., you have to plug in to sync).

Hope that helps.