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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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May 23, 2014 11:58 PM in response to wil1385

I didn't want to do a full restore and following the hint of restoring the network setting I realized what had messed up was the VPN profile was messed up. I reinstalled the VPN profile and everything is ok now.


If you use Onavo the VPN profile turns off automatically while you are on wifi. That's when I was getting the errors. I just flipped the VPN switch to On while on wifi and then flipped it off. It's working fine now.


Give it a try. Good luck.

Mar 11, 2015 9:25 AM in response to Kolikok

Notwithstanding other comments I do not think this problem (at least with the latest upgrade) has anything to do with the specific device. I had it on my iPhone 6 and was also unable to download app updates (it just does not work - no message). Then Dropbox transfers from mail on my iPad (also on the latest os) got swamped by this silly 'push messages' notice (hard to understand when it might be relevant anyway).


But with some fiddling and re-signing into the cloud (no restore) things seem now to be working. So I think the problem is with the link to the cloud/store, not any specific device. It is possible that the OS update today could be a factor.

Connect to iTunes to Use Push Notifications message

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