I wanted to restart my Mac in order to check whether this would clear a problem I was having. I got the message:
This makes no sense as it doesn't give any indication of which iOS device is involved, nor does it allow one to abandon the operation. Grrr.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
I managed to get out of this situation by having the device connected by cable to the computer. Then turn off the iOS device.Then disconnected the device from the computer. The device disappeared in the Finder and I was able to restart the computer. Then I restarted the device and reconnected it to the computer. When it showed up in the Finder, I clicked on sync and let it work. After that, everything worked for me. So far....
I is running Catalina 10.15.3 on my MacBook Pro and iOS 13.3.1 on my iPhone.
Hello, Dandelion1.
When the processes are initiated, does it ever finish or does it lock up at that point? It's possible that syncing a lot of data over Wi-Fi could just be slow. You may want to try syncing up all of your devices using a cable instead just to get the process complete. Finder and sync should be quick if there are no changes on the devices and Mac.
If that still doesn't help, try the safe mode and test user account steps provided earlier.
Best regards.
I also encountered such situation, it's unnecessary to hold power button to restart.
See my post about the solution: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251026731
I wrote:
All our iOS devices are configured to backup to our Mac and to sync both music and photos from our Mac.
As we use Apple Music to sync our playlists (but do not use iCloud for our photos), that should have said:
All our iOS devices are configured to backup to our Mac and to sync photos from our Mac.
This happened to me twice too. The syncing never finish, plus the iOS device itself didn't have the syncing icon on top. I don't think there were a lot of data to be synced as my iPhone sync quite frequently (may be once every 2 days).
I'm afraid safe mode won't help, as this happen randomly.
Just an update: I've updated my Mac to the latest 10.15.2, and this is happening to me again right now, and in the Finder there's not even any of my iDevices showing the syncing icon.
Apparently this add to a growing list of MacOS bugs that Apple is never going to fix because only the iPhone worth putting their effort in now.
Same here... very frustrating because I can quit everything, but I can't relaunch (force quit) the Finder to break this process. I've turned off Wi-Fi, turned off my phone, but Finder insists that it's still syncing via Wi-Fi. C'mon Apple! #ListenUpApple
I did, but never saw a "retry" window... I ran Disk Utility which took longer than usual, but it just said my disk appears to be ok. I couldn't even use the terminal to issue a kill command. So, I just held the power button until it went off. Afterwards, I was able to turn off the connect via wifi feature--so, hopefully, this won't happen again. Thank you though.
Your proposed "solution" doesn't work. I have tried this repeatedly. This problem returns daily.
How about some actual debugging, Apple?
Where is the root cause analysis?
Too big to fail?
maybe not.
Suggestion: put a black swan on your logo. nevermind, probably no clue, like your QA.
same issues here. it's stuck trying to backup a phone that isn't actively being synced.
I just got it with no IOS devices plugged in, although both were visible from my finder. Finder doesn't show either of those devices as "in process".
The Finder can’t quit because an operation is still in progress on an iOS device
My computer has problem like you too please share the solustion how to fix
The Finder can’t quit because an operation is still in progress on an iOS device
Many thanks
That's really helpful, thank you.
Have you tried my method above?
The iOS sync is a disaster in Catalina. They had ample time to test it, but yet it made into our macs causing trouble everyday.
"The Finder can't quite because an operation is still in progress on an iOS device"
