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Lucia555 Author

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42 points

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:

Best option if I cannot use iTunes - Is it iCloud?
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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Lucia555 Author

Level 1

42 points

Posted on Apr 27, 2021 2:50 PM

Under another discussion (iTunes for Widows) on the same topic, someone contacted apple support and was directed to provide feedback. I am copying in his/her reply from the other discussion:

ikp1

User level: Level 1 (8 points)

iTunes Specialty level out of ten: 0

Apr 27, 2021 10:39 AM in response to lccla1

This would be a big loss of feature for me also. I started seeing this after upgrading to iTunes 12.11.3.17.

If this feature is important for you, suggest providing feedback via the following form:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Hopefully, if there is sufficient interest and request for this feature, it may not be removed in future.

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