iPhone sync stuck at Step 5 of 5 waiting for the changes to be applied

For me it was stuck. So with the iphone/pad etc plugged in I was having the failings at the last step.

I got it to work by unticking "Sync this ****** over wifi" and onnly ticking"manually manage music and videos"

Maybe it gets confussed and I thought I was managing it anyway.

Anyway - that worked for me, literally did the ticks. Off it goes, now adding 1500+ tunes 🙂 😀

Please tell me what worked for you!! I have the same darn problem 😟

I also have the same problem. It takes forever, so it seems, for the sync process to complete. I unplugged from iTunes the first time, and the phone seemed to work well, but I decided this time to let it go for as long as it would take. Well, it's been probably a half hour. It indicates: "Waiting for changes to be applied." I have never experienced this problem with any of the other iPhones I've had. I welcome any suggestions. Thanks!

I have a similar problem. I get the following error message

"The Iphone xxx could not be synced because the sync session failed to start"

Worse still, the few synced songs appear greyed out and don't play. So far I can only sync music bought through the Apple store, anything uploaded via CDs or computer files does not play. Please help, am getting frustrated!!

Did anyone was able to find out how to fix this? Facing the same problem with my new iPhone5. It works like a charm with the iphone4 oder iPad3.

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Try unchecking Sync with this iPhone over WIFI under summary in iTunes. I was having this problem with iTunes 11.1.1 and iOS 7.0.2 and this finally fixed the problem for me.

I quit all apps running in the background on the phone and it synced right away...