What happen to iSync for Lion? Cannot sync my mobile anymore using Lion...
Mac OS X (10.7)
iSync is no longer supported by Apple. Do a google search for "Lion iSync".
Here is the first hit I received when I did that search two minutes ago.
Copy the iSync v3.1.2 application from your Snow Leopard backup to the Applications folder in Lion and you can continue syncing as before.
There is an app for that in the app store.
http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/phonecopy-for-mac/id413033715?mt=12
it is also a free app.
enjoy.
But do not forget that everything will be synced over the internet - not locally. This means data traffic on your phone, you need to have an internet subscription and high costs when syncing while being abroad.
Go here and ask Apple to go on supporting iSync in the future
They won't, so you'd just be wasting your time submitting feedback.
Since Apple came out with their own mobile phone in 2007, they haven't updated iSync for their competitors phones at all. They won't restart development on it now, plus the underlying frameworks that iSync uses have been deprecated.
They actually did. In Autum 2008 there was no possibility of synchronization with Nokia N97, but in early 2009 (or Winter 2008, I don't remember), they update for several Nokia phones, including N97.
No, you're wrong. It was Nokia who added iSync support for those phones by releasing iSync Plugins, not Apple.
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/isync/compatibility-and-download
As I said, Apple has not added any new phones to iSync since October 2007.
OK, I've tried that one... Copying the iSync App on a SnowLeopard machine and copying it in my LION system (in teplacement of the original one...
Same results:
- for contacts : it give only the possibilty to sync ALL the data (and not a part of them as offered before)
and, even so, no sync at all
- for iCal, even worse : no options. Just says to start iCal to determien which calendar may ne synced... and that's it
May be I missed a part of the process..
Thanks
Jeff
To be more complete : I just tried to sync my phone (Samsung D900i) on this previous Snow Leopard machine (the one I copied the App from), and it worked...
Problem, this machine is no longer mine, but my wife's!! No sure it will be very useful to have her data instead of mine on my phone!!
If you have iCloud syncing turned on, iSync will not have access to your contact and calendar data as iCloud moves it the iCloud server.
Turn iCloud off, and you should find that iSync can still sync as it did under Snow Leopard. However, this is clearly unsupported and the underlying SyncServices framework that powers iSync is deprecated in Lion, so it will stop working completely in some future Lion update.
Basically, iSync is discontinued in Lion, and any workarounds are only temporary and may not work fully.
YES!!!
Thank you very much! I just turn off the iCloud syncing and it worked... at once!
This will "save my life" at least until my new iPhone.
I do understand now the level 7 and the 23865 points! You deserve it!
Hi Julian,
may I ask your opinion ?
I have now migrated to iCloud, but iSync is still on my Mac.
Everithing works OK (I sinc Contact and calendar within 2 Macs and 1 iPhone over iCloud and the rest of data via iTunes) and I believe I will no more try to use iSync with Phones.
I just opened iSync to see what happens: it opens and the range of my old Nokia phones is there. I opened preferences and see that there is checked the box "Let this Computer to sync with MM" or something like that (translation from Italian). I unchecked that box and closed iSync. RESULT: iCloud or iTunes informed me that the sinc with the iPhone was not possible because not allowed... needed to reopen iSync and check the box again.
Can you explain me what happens ? Why iSync with MM interpheres with iCloud ?
Should I now delete iSync and its preference files ? Or may be I will have problems ?
Thanks for your time.
iSync interferes with iCloud because they are trying to access the same data in 2 very different ways.
iSync requires the data to be stored locally on your computer, whereas iCloud requires the data to be stored on the iCloud server.
iSync uses Apple's proprietary and deprecated SyncServices protocol, whereas iCloud uses CardDAV and CalDAV.
As iSync is discontinued, and no longer a part of Mac OS X from 10.7.0 onwards, you might as well delete the iSync application, its preferences files, and the ~/Library/Phones/ folder, plus the ~/Library/PhonePlugins/ folder if it exists. They do not serve any purpose any more.
What happen to iSync for Lion?
