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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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Aug 2, 2013 5:05 AM in response to jaithorpe

Thanks jaithorpe. Your fix worked for me too!


Initially I only chose General > Reset All Settings, but this did not work after two tries.


Then I tried General > Erase All Content and Settings... this worked!

(Caution. If you do this, first create a back-up. I made a backup through iCloud. Then be prepared to spend quite a bit of time re-installing your data. I have a 32 GB iPad and it took several hours because of one application that had more than 1GB of data).


Thanks again.

Ian.

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

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