iPhone/iTunes Wifi sync doesn't work

There are a number of major bugs. Both in IOS 6 and Mountain Lion. I bought a brand new iMac several months after Mountain Lion was released and I found out the machine I brought home still had Lion on it. The people at the Apple store never said a word. I was lucky to be able to restore my data and some apps from a time machine backup because I never could get the iMac to talk to my old Macbook it was replacing.

Besides the iTunes wifi issue, I have a new AT&T iPhone 5 and 2 4G iPad 3s that all have the personal hotspot feature. The iMac won't recognize the hotspots wireless connection unless I toggle the hotspot off and on. If I had other devices using the hotspot, I would have to dump then to be able to connect from the iMac Is the problem IOS 6 or Mountain Lion? Even this web site is more difficult to use than before.

There's no doubt that Steve Jobs was not running the company for some time before his death and it's beginning to show. The product quality and support are both slipping and like you, I thought about a Galaxy III or the new Note. But my wife got a new Galaxy III.I see it as a big hunk of plastic that has a bunch of apps that are almost as good but not quite there.

In 99% of the cases it works for me if I turn the Wifi of my iPhone off and on again. Using the airplane mode it's resolved in a few seconds.

I upgraded to iTunes 11 last night and now my wireless sync is working fine. My iPhone had to be plugged into a power supply but started syncink righ away. My iPad staarted syncing aa soon as I opened iTunes. It's unplugged and sitting 3 rooms away. Anyhow it appears they stuck a fix in iTunes 11.

My iPhone 5 and iPad have never synched automatically with iTunes, even when plugged in and on all night. They frequently give me problems when I try to sync via wifi, usually have to plug them into MacBook.

Having recently upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.2, iTunes 11 and iOS 6. I now have similar difficulties synching my iPad and iPhone. Up until now I have been happy to live in Apple's "walled garden" because every thing 'just worked'. I felt a great relief having escaped the world of Windows PC's a couple of years ago (I still run Windows 7 under Parallels), but this upgrade has destroyed my faith in the company. Steve Jobs where are you????😟

Greetings guys,

I'm using IOS 6.0.2 on my IPhone 5, using Windows 7 64 bits and Itunes 11.0.1.12.

I was experiencing the greyd out Sync options from my Iphone's Settings»General»Wi-fi Tiunes Sync. (sorry for the exact path, but since i'm using IOS French version, i'm trying to make a translation for it) And i couldn't see my Iphone from the list in ITunes on my PC. I did the procedure to cable connect it, then selecting from Itunes general settings «Sync over wi-fi with this computer» and blabla, all stuff as most people said here happens... vut inside ITunes «Help» menu, i clicked «Disagnostic tests» (figure1.jpg shows the menu to choose, figure2.jpg shows the 2 options i only selected, and figure3.jpg shows where the missing Iphone in my case, appeard missing and i ended up with the possibilities to read some tips, where i found out this little trick i'll explain, if this tricks doesn't work for you, at least you'll ended up with some more helps options)

What i did is, 1st if my iphone doesn't show up in ITunes, i open the Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE), select «task manager», the once in the Task Manager, i click on the «Services» tab, then quit and close Itune, once Itune is quitted, ont he «Services» tab, find «Apple Mobile Device», then RIGHT-CLICK on it, STOP SERVICE, then RE-START SERVICE, once that is done, re-open ITune, then wai a few seconds, and it should now detect, in my case, my IPhone, and since Itunes detects it, on my Iphone meny, Synch is now available... once in a while my IPhone doesn't show in ITunes, so when it happens, i do agian the process of Stoping the Service, and restarting it, repening Itunes.

Hope This works..

This worked!!! Thanks!!!!

I could only get the wifi sync to work when I disconnected remote HD on my iPad as I was remoting into my pc, remote HD connects on port 32700 and mist have been interfering with the wifi sync function I haven't managed to get the wifi sync to run along side remote HD as yet.

THIS WORKED!!!!!!!

Thank you for this solution! I've been trying to connect for months until I read this and it worked seamlessly now.

Kudos!

I thought I would update you on my situation. Apple recently put out an IOS update, just a few days or so ago. They said it contained bug fixes among other things. I applied this to both my iPad and iPhone and now both of them will sync. wirelessly with iTunes, and at the same time.

Eureka!

Thanks to everyone for their responses, some fixes worked for some and others for others. Would be nice to hear if anyone else is now able to sync. wirelessly since applying the IOS update. I hope if anyone else is still encountering a problem they will keep contributing to this thread as it has helped many.

I will confirm what Highlandfling said....after applying the update this morning, iTunes automatically started syncing with my iPhone 4S and iPad 4 without me having to do anything. I've been messing with this for a while trying all the suggestions in this thread...but after applying the update, all is well. so it seems as if Apple has fixed this issue.

If I want to sync my iPad or iPhone, I have to plug them first. Then I can unplug them and sync by wifi.

Is it a joke????

Rewrite itunes !!!!!!!! It's not a request, it's an order. 100 billions, but no employee to rewrite itunes to boost it and avoid bugs that exists for years.....

Yes, the joke is on you. You need to connect to iTunes to setup Wireless sync. It's hard for you to understand?

Done years ago. It worked nice until one day. Since last week, I have to connect the devices to the computer everyday. I have to check/uncheck the box (blabla wifi) everyday.

Maybe the problem appears with the last update of itunes, or ios 6.0.2, not sure, because I didn't sync these day, due to a lack of time.

So, or the wifi mean "with wire", or there is a problem.

PS: Wifi network is not the cause.