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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Posted on Oct 20, 2011 11:05 AM

I apparently solved my problem yesterday by restoring my phone. I have a 3GS and did experience some issues while installing iOS 5. Earlier this week my iMessage capabilities suddenly disappeared, my passwords gone and the push notification issue with several apps popped up. I did a restore and the problem was solved. I did have to reenter the password for a few apps but other than that everything is fine now. Hope this helps.

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Oct 20, 2011 5:04 PM in response to MLSMYTH

What I wound up doing was a restore and that did not work.


However, if I went into SETTINGS-TWITTER, it told me that my username was incorrect for all three of my Twitter accounts. In reality, the full name line was blank. I re-entered my password for each account and saved, and my name showed up in the full name line on its own.


Twitter is now updating and I do not get the "push" message.

Jun 6, 2012 10:46 AM in response to MLSMYTH

I posted this on another thread. It seems to have worked for me at least, I went into settings>notifications and for everything I had in notification centre, I turned off 'view in lock screen', exited settings. When I turned the view in lock screen back on, the message would appear again. So I have just left it off.


Still having problems with not being able to connect to Youtube though😢

Oct 26, 2013 3:47 AM in response to MLSMYTH

Guys I tried the following and everything worked PERFECTLY!!!! and i didnt restore or anything.


1- when updating the IOS it has "Icloud keychain". (Under settings----> Icloud). go there and ENABLE it. It will ask for passcode and so on. so once enabled

2- restart your phone (normal power off)

3- Sync on itunes on your pc or man (it might work without sync, havent tried it)

4- reactivate imessage and facetime. (need a few minutes to reactivate)

5- ALL WORKING ;-)


I hope it works for you guys.


Mike

Oct 31, 2013 9:49 AM in response to melc11

I updated my iPhone 4 to ios 7.0.3 last night and this happened. What I did to fix this was really simple:


1) power off the phone

2) open iTunes first and then connect with the phone (it should restart automatically)

3) wait until the connection is done

4) problem SOLVED!!!!!


I didn't backup or restore the phone before I tried this simple solution. And no settings were changed. Did sync for a few times but didn't work.


Cheuk

Feb 27, 2012 3:26 PM in response to MLSMYTH

Ok, basicly I am a developer, and I know my way around this stuff. Also, I am very expirenced in jailbreaking. To speed up my 4S, I jailbroke and deleted a list of launch daemons, and I deleted one that I thought would be harmless, but it wasn't. After deleting, I got that notification, but a simple restore fixed it. So the reason this happens, not that you guys need to know this, is a corrupt or missing launch daemon(s). I also say that so apple is aware. Thanks guys. BTW, this is my first post!!😉

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...

Mar 12, 2012 6:03 PM in response to zahidrashid

1)Shut down the phone

2)Press and the power button and the home button and when the Apple logo comes on keep on holding it

3)After the phone shuts down again you are going to let go of the lock button and continue holding the home button

4)You are now in DFU mode and iTunes will detect the iOS device as in recovery



Using OTA Update can corrupt some system files

I hope this helps

Thanks.

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