sync calendar/contacts with iCloud versus iTunes

I use iTunes on a Windows 10 PC to sync my Outlook 365 Calendar and Contacts with my iPhone 8 calendar and contacts. Today I received the following message in iTunes: "Support for syncing contacts and calendars has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version of iTunes."


I think it is still syncing. My questions are as follows:

  1. Best option if I cannot use iTunes - Is it iCloud?
  2. If it is iCloud - will it duplicate all entries the first time I use iCloud to sync or does it recognize the two (iPhone calendar/contacts & PC based Outlook calendar/contacts) are already synced and just add/remove/change any differences? I have not used iCloud in past.


One last note: I sync both an iPhone and iPad Air with my Windows 10 PC.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Apr 24, 2021 1:02 PM

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Jun 22, 2022 3:21 PM in response to APB1966

I have chickened out and am still on Microsoft Store V12.11.3.17       it still works for me with iOS V15.5

(not the stand alone version)


But when I started my sync. today I got an error message from iTunes:


"Your iTunes Store Session has expired. To reconnect sign in ... "


I could not clear the message so I went ahead logged, but wonder if at some future date re-logging in ...

might trigger "Deprecation" :-/ ???


I wouldn't think so but ... well you know ...

sync calendar/contacts with iCloud versus iTunes

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