wifi sync not working after ios6 update

I'm all mac here.

However changing the hostname without a hyphen permitted a wifi sync.

I can't believe that will fix it though because it worked fine before.

No doubt it will break again tomorrow!

pagemakers4, your issue may or may not be the hostname issue. Please see my comment on page 7 (5th one down) to check if it is, and how to "fix" it. I say "fix" because you'll still need to restart iTunes every once in a while (edit: every week or two) to keep things working. Hope that helps.

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Yea I saw that a few weeks ago and carried out your suggestion. Thanks. It only worked for a day or so though.

What is strange though is the hostname detected by terminal and what is displayed in system preferences are different.

Terminal shows Server Imac and preferences displayed it with a hyphen. My iPhone was looking for the non hyphened version.

I could always wifi sync if I manually initiated from the mac but not front the phone since iOS 6.

I have now renamed it just Server and rebooted. Terminal still shows the old name with the hyphen. Not sure why it does not update automatically.

Anyway, all 4 of my iOS devices now sync by wifi.

I'll let you know if its still working tomorrow (doubt it)

I installed a free network app called Fing. This helps when trying to establish hostnames.

That's because your computer has 3 seperate computer names ... the ComputerName, which is likely what you changed in system preferences and has no hyphens by default; the LocalHostName, which can also be changed in system prefernces by clicking the "edit" button under the computer name; and lastly the HostName, which to my knowledge can only be changed in the terminal as described. These three are seperate and distinct and don't have to be similar (i.e., one with hyphens, one without, etc.). More info on that on this article at cult of mac.

Interesting. Thanks for the info and I'll keep you updated if I've fixed anything.

I'm amazed. It's still working after half a day. I really hope this is it finally sorted. After all the previous disappointment though I have little hope.

In answer to your wifo app syncing query I can confirm that this is working for me. I am on a 2011 MacBook Pro and syncing to my iPhone 5. I replied earlier in the thread championing your fix which to this day is still working. I tend to close iTunes once in a while but would always do this anyway in the event that the iPhone/MacBook Pro wifi connection dropped out for some reason. That would happen a bit on iPhone 4 with iOS 5.

Fapapa you are a genius mate. I had to wrap my head around your explanation but it the became clear and I discovered that my host name had changed on my iMac and my ipad and iPhone were looking for a different name. I do remember now that awhile back that I received a message on my iMac that due to a problem my host name was renamed to **** iMac 2. The 2 was not part of the original name. I changed the name an now I cannot get my iphone or iPad NOT sync anymore. Syncing is rock solid.

Thank you so much your solution worked a treat. I'm very happy now!

Thanks Mr. Baggins, you are too kind. Alas, not all is well in Middle Earth; it will stop working from time to time ... but at least all you have to do to get it to work again is restart itunes. Glad my post helped. Happy syncing. 😉

vin, thanks for checking; my apps still aren't syncing ... I've pretty much given up. 😟

Fapapa, restarting iTunes every so often is ok with me. At least it functions for me now. Hopefully Apple will offer a permanent fix. Thanks again!

Well as I suspected it doesn't work.

The fix managed to last a day.

I give in. Apple needs to fix this.

The weird thing about my last post above is although there was no sync symbol on my phone the iTunes preference page shows that all 4 of my iOS devices backed up about 0100 last night. Two of the devices weren't even plugged in to charge.

Now I'm really confused.

Forget my post above. The backups were made the days before yesterday not this morning.

Wifi sync is still bust.

Amazing, I joined this discussion a long time ago and am flabagasted that it has reached this level of frustration for everyone concerned. I spent a long time trying to work out whether I should jump on the Apple or Android bandwagon, I chose Apple because my wife has a 4S and it just worked (WiFi sync as well). So I got the iPhone 5 and upgraded to iTunes 6, epic fail.

Let's think about this, iOS 6 came out and busted things, then iTunes 11 came out and it didn't fix it then iOS 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 came out, still no progress.

For me this is a travesty, Apple are (were) known as a company that produces high quality, high priced hardware and software combinations that just work, well this time it doesn't. Maybe they are spreading themselves too thin with all the new products and updates that they are pushing out, welcome to the world of commercial pressure.

It is incredulous that something that was working flawlessly in previous versions just stopped working, for a flagship product like the iPhone they must have thousands of automated tests that validate these things (I assume they have otherwise we are all screwed).

Remember the path to solving an issue is admitting that you have a problem, it seems that Apple have just put their fingers in their ears and are hoping that it will just go away. If you want to keep your customer base happy (what I mean is coming back and spending hard earned cash on your expensive products) then you need to listen to them.

The iPhone was designed for people who just want things to work, none of this tweaking, resetting, rebooting and generally "playing" with your device, it should just work; and it did until the last round.

So, to any Apple employees reading this discussion please honour your obligations to your users and solve this issue.

Couldn't agree with you more. Good post.