How to force an iPhone to eject

My Mac says that it's been syncing with the iPhone for about four days, and I haven't found a way to stop the process.

• I've tried right-clicking and force eject the iPhone from the Finder sidebar. Nothing happens.

• I've shut down the iPhone and then turned it back on. Nothing happens.

• I've connected the iPhone to the Mac with a physical cable. Nothing happens.

• I've tried to eject it from iTunes. No success.

Mac is running Monterey 12.0.1

iPhone is running 15.6.1

iPhone 8

Posted on Sep 7, 2022 5:43 AM

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Sep 7, 2022 1:53 PM in response to chuckbo-again

There used to be a process that you could stop in Activity Monitor that would stop the stuck sync. But I don't remember what the process is. Do you know what it is?

Sep 16, 2022 1:19 PM in response to LD150

I finally used the power button to force the Mac to shut down.

No matter.

Once I restarted, the Mac saw the iPhone and has been syncing with it "supposedly" for the last five hours.

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