Service ‘Apple Mobile Device’ (Apple Mobile Device) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

I have the same problem when I update iTune to 12.1 and it gives me "Apple Mobile Services Failed to start" and than later "iTunehelper was not installed error 7".

After spending an afternoon uninstalling and re-installing all Apple programs one by one as instructed, it still would not work.

Then I noticed that there are two versions of iTune available for download, one is iTune6464.exe and the other iTune64.exe, which is for OLDER video cards. The iTune6464.exe is put right in front, but the iTune64.exe is put somewhere behind the Apple Website and is hard to find. They do not indicate how "old" the video card should be to use this version. So I give a try, and it installs flawlessly in my computer (my video card is GeForce GT520). My new iPad and old iPod now work with no trouble at all.

Strange !!!

I did not type anything and my previous answer got re-posted again.

I am trying to follow your steps, however I am stuck when installing and saving it. I still am yet to have an icon to right click on so I can choose "run as administrator", i only get the icon after it installs, then I get the service apple mobile device error, I can choose to "ignore". I had tried this and itunes come to "finish install". At this point I plug in my iphone and install AMD, wait then click finish. straight away I get error "itunes not installed correctly. so somewhere after the download is where I appear to failing miserably

soypisto75 Still no luck. Same message everytime! its been months now!

SAME AS ME!

have you found a method yet

Hey guys,

I uninstall everything. Then, I tried to install "itunes6464.setup" with administrator privileges but I’m still getting this error “Service ‘Apple Mobile Device Service’ (Apple Mobile Device Service) could not be installed. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to install system services.”

Do you guys know what to do? Thanks for the help.

Please uninstall everything and load iTunes for older video Cards iTunes 12.1.1 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards)

For me it worked fine.

THANK YOU SO MUCH Andreas!
It worked just fine. Now I can finally sync my iPhone.

I had the same or similar error. If I attempted an install of just this service with logging I them got error 1920 from the msiexec log files.

Turns out (in my case) it caused by the wrong version of msvcr100.dll in the windows\system32 folder. This was on a 64 bit version of windows7. The version in this folder is supposed to be a x64 version of the dll, but was a x86 version instead. I used the sysinternals process monitor to find out the cause (for my situation). - See https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/a0a2608a-3102-40f8-93ce-2 53d08d91406/32bit-version-of-msvcr100dll-is-installed-in-64bit-cwindowssystem32- directory?forum=vcgeneral

The solution is to first rename this dll e.g. to msvcr100.x86.dll and to then to download and re-install the

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)

using this link http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523

You may also want to install the 32bit/x86 version of this package too.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328

Once you have done this the service will start and you can re-install/repair iTunes.

Hi friends ,

This is the way you can do ,

1: Uninstall iTunes ( no need Restart again )

2: Install as Administrators

4:Run iTunes

Good Luck

I removed all firewalls but the problem still persists. I called apple support in India they also failed to help me load iTunes.

Thanks, this worked.

Thank You so Much Nepeaner!!

I've been working on this on and off for months...Your response on older video cards rang a bell.. I found the newest iTunes link for older video cards and Presto magic I got my iTunes back!!

Thanks! This worked great for me! 🙂

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