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Connect to iTunes to Use Push Notifications message

I have an iPhone 4 and I updated it to iOS 5 a few days ago and when I open up applictions like Facebook, Twitter, Bump, and others that use notifications, I get a message as soon as the appliction opens that says, "Connect to iTunes to Use Push Notifications". I have connected my iPhone to iTunes and synced it but that is not solving the problem. Because of this I am not recieving notifications from third party applictions. Does anyone know how to fix this?



Also, everytime I open the YouTube application I get a message saying, "Cannot connect to YouTube" and I am not able to use YouTube at all because of this. Anyway to fix this?



(I forgot to mention my iPhone is NOT jailbroken and has never been jailbroken.)

iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 3:26 PM

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Oct 18, 2011 1:59 AM in response to MLSMYTH

I just called Apple but they were no help. We tried to: reset all settings, delete an app and redownload, play with the notification settings. All failed. He thought it was something to do with my iTunes so he emailed me instructions on how to Uninstall iTunes completely and reinstall. I just did this and it did not work either... he didn't know how to help me, he was only researching online like we are all doing...

Oct 18, 2011 3:26 PM in response to MLSMYTH

I had the same exact thing happen to me last night. I've been able to get some of my apps to work but Google+ is causing problems and so is Yelp. I had to reenter my passwords for my email accounts as well. I am not sure what happened but based on the number of people posting the same problem it sounds like there is an issue with the new iOS.

Oct 19, 2011 9:47 AM in response to MLSMYTH

I just upgraded from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 4s and I'm seeing this in Find My Friends. I just opened a discussion on it before I saw this thread. I haven't seen it with any other app so far. It was working fine on my iPhone 4 before I upgraded phones. Maybe it's not just a problem with FMF and I just haven't seen it on other apps yet.


Joe

Oct 19, 2011 3:13 PM in response to MLSMYTH

I'm also having similar issues, but without the 'itunes message." My push notification(for apps other than mail) are sporadic at best. The biggest issue is with my IM apps. For a while i thought it was IM+ as the problem, but then i tried imo which has the same problem. FB and twitter notifications now doing the same thing. This was not an issue prior to iOS 5.

Connect to iTunes to Use Push Notifications message

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