wifi sync not working after ios6 update

garypaul,

Can you see the iPhone from the Mac using the Bounjour browser?

http://download.cnet.com/Bonjour-Browser/3000-7240_4-45281.html

Have you tried enabling home sharing on your iTunes? If so, can your iPhone see your Mac's music library?

And you did check the iTune "enable wifi sync" box for your iPhone?

Are your Mac and iPhone both connected to the same network?

If you have done all these, trying running syslog -w, and disable/enable wifi on your iPhone, and see if syslog shows anything.

Tomei I do not have a mac but I d/l'd Bojour browser for Windows and the iPhone does not show up but iTunes does.

Just noticed something new. Sometimes iTunes conveniently forgets that you have checked the "Sync with this iPad over WiFi" box. The symptom is if you unplug the device from USB, it immediately disappears from iTunes. The fix is to connect to USB, uncheck the "Sync with wifi" box, click Apply, check the box again, and click Apply.

garypaul,

If bounjour can see iTunes but cannot see the iPhone, maybe it's due to the Windows firewall? try disabling firewall and see if bounjour can see your phone.

Yes I see the mac addr of the iphone now that I have shutdown the anti virus network seurity software but iTunes still does not see the iPhone wirelessly.

So I took my laptop out for the day. Got home, hooked it all up. iTunes is set to launch at startup. Not sure if phone or iPad mini were plugged in when it booted, but I think not. At some point I plugged them Both into power. Came back like 15 mins later. Both devices were in sidebar of iTunes. I ejected both thru iTunes. Restarted iTunes. A bit later iPad is there, no phone. Waited a while. Restarted iTunes. Waited a while and still neither has shown up. I seem to almost always be able to Home Share with either device using Music, Videos, or Remote apps with no problem.

I unplugged both devices from power. Shut down laptop for a few. Rebooted it. Kept both devices so screens were on. A bit after iTunes launched, my phone shows up in sidebar, but after 5 mins still no iPad.

The only logical conclusion conceivable is that this is all related to my using Win7, with Connectify running as my router. It is now totally obvious that if I were to go out and buy a new Apple MacBook Air, and Apple AirPort router this would all work flawlessly like it does for all the other Apple Purists. And if it didn't, then surely adding an Apple TV would solve my problem once and for all! I strongly suggest you go drop a grand or two at the Apple Store, like I'm about to do, so y'all can stop your petulant whining!

Nah, I'm just gonna keep using the cable when I need to, cuz it causes me zero headache. But, I really, really wish Apple would solve this thing, or at least just say " Hey, we know it's a problem. We are working to solve it." If it didn't make a single one of us happy, it would at keep us all from being so ****** off, wasting our time researching, fiddling with, posting and complaining about it.

AARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!

Well, I found my way to sync my iPhone and iPad via WLAN without any problem.

- start iTunes on pc

- disconnect the network connection of pc

- reconnect the network connection of pc

After that iTunes will find your iPhone/iPad and starts to synchronize.

To switch my pc network connection in a fast and easy way OFF and ON I put a small icon on the pc screen: "PC Network Connection OFF-ON". By making a double click on this icon my pc is disconnected from network and by doing another double click my pc is reconnected.

The switching OFF/ON is done within 3-5 seconds. That's all and your iPhone, iPad,... will be found.

Has anyone verified rsdillman's claim? I updated all of my software and it worked initially, but I haven't been home to verify over a several day period.

rsdillman wrote:

The issue is fixed in:

- IOs 6.1.3 and iTunes

- OSX 10.8.3

- iTunes 11.0.2

I had the problem...issue fixed.

Doesn't work for me and I'm 100% Apple. Several others have also stated it doesn't work for them either so no, that is not the fix.

While it seems likely that these issues pertain to changes made to accomodate iOS 6, I think it's inaccurate to limit the focus to something that lives within iOS 6 itself. Myself, Rob Mitchell1 and Tomei Ningen have all confirmed that we had these issues with iOS 5 devices. In fact, Tomei and me upgraded to iOS 6 in hopes of curing our syncing woes.

SarahCat wrote:

I do agree that the evidence continues to point to an iOS 6 issue more consistently than any other component.

Thanks pagemakers4. I'm 100% Apple too, so I guess that means I'll return home to broken syncing.

Who on this thread has reported the issue via Apple's feedback form? I've had numerous Apple phone support reps claim that Apple reviews this feedback and would pay attention if the volume for a given item reaches critical mass.

rdrushton wrote:

Would anyone experiencing this issue be so kind as to fill out Apple's feedback form?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Where it says "I Have Feedback About:" select "Syncing with my iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Apple TV"

And provide a link to this forum thread in the comments box. Maybe 400+ feedback requests for the same issue will trigger somthing at Apple. I might start submitting it daily just for fun.

It may work for you for a day or two. Re the feedback forms, Apple must had had hundreds judging by the problems on this thread alone.

Personally, I don't think it will be fixed until iOS7 or iTunes12. It's been about a year already and non of the iOS or OSX updates even mention this as a problem.

The wake on lan and wifi sync just do not work for me at all. There is a rare occurance when it works, but I think it is when the computer wakes up (the periodic wakeups that Apple referrs to when the computer is sleeping). I think that the wake on lan packet is going thru because the computer harddrive spins up but it is either a faulty wake on lan packet ie iOS6 problem or that the iTunes is not getting the wake on lan packet ie iTunes 11 problem.

I have reported it to Apple feedback several times. I have spoken to a number of their tech support and also the Apple Executive Relations team. And their answer is that it wors for them and we need to do more troubleshooting. I do not think that there is any more troubleshooting for me to do that I have not already done. I am convinced that it is an Apple problem, they will NEVER admit it and at some point we will magically see that it works after some form of update.

The reason I switched over to Apple is because it used to JUST WORK. I hate to say it but not only does it not work anymore, but the fact that they will not admit that it is their fault and that they are working on a fix is even more frustrating than the problem itself.

I feel your pain. That is my problem exactly. This morning I could not wake up my iMac with my iPhone or iPad. I tried again when I got home from work and it still did not work.

If I press a key to wake up my computer wifi sync works perfectly. Since I have to go to my computer to wake it up why not just sync my iPhone via the cable?! It is maddening. I just want it to work!

If I set sleep to "never" everything works flawlessly. I do not want to leave my computer on all the time. This is not the first time that wake on LAN did not work properly. Apple fixed it but here we go again.