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iOS 6 killed Wi-Fi Sync

Hey guys,


I updated my iOS and OS to the newest versions respectively today. As well as extremely intermittent Wi-Fi in general, my iPhone now does not sync via Wi-Fi.


All the settings are the same as they were before the update.


Sometimes the phone appears in the side bar of iTunes but just hangs at this for 5 minutes before becoming solid and ejecting in the same second.


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Extremely frustrating problem. I have restarted my modem & router, my iPhones network settings and my MacBook Pro.


Any help would be great!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 8:33 AM

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Apr 8, 2013 9:39 AM in response to iPaulMorrison

I have to say that it started to magically work over the last 12hours for me as well. I have not made any changes either. I am not holding my breath as I have had the issue for a long time and there were no updates that were pushed, so I am not sure what the difference is.


I am not aware of Apple being able to push updates without my acknowledging and installing an update.


Wondering if anyone eles has seen this difference.

Apr 11, 2013 12:59 PM in response to iPaulMorrison

I also have been experiencing wifi sync issues since ios6. I have an iPhone 4, an iPad 2 (?), a Macbook Pro (OSX Lion), and iTunes 10.7. Generally, iTunes sees the iPad upon startup, but has issues with the iPhone. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not. When it's not, I've tried powering off the phone, restarting Itunes, rebooting the Macbook, all of the above. Some things work sometimes, other times nothing works and I have to sync via USB. Even more annoying, sometimes iTunes sees the iPhone but I still can't initiate a wifi sync from the phone. I can usually initiate a wifi sync from iTunes, but that's inconvenient. Once I've successfully done a wifi sync from iTunes, I can usually do subsequent syncs (within an unknown time frame) initiated from the phone, but usually the scenario starts again the next day. There was a period of time where iTunes just wouldn't display the iphone under the left pane "Devices" section unless connected via USB, but now it does, but the phone still will not successfully initiate a sync more often than not. When the phone initiated sync fails, it times out and tells me the sync "will resume when <Macbook name> is available. So when iTunes can see the phone it appears the iphone has problems seeing iTunes.


I don't have a clue what's happening and the problem seems to be a moving target. As usual, Apple's silence on a definitive resolution is annoying and frustrating.

May 7, 2013 10:39 AM in response to doctordrem

Obviously this is (another badly released) ios6 problem that Apple will fix when they are ready...


In the mean time I get over it by doing the following:


While the phone and PC (with Itunes running) are both connected to my home network I simply disconnect and reconnect the PC WiFi and then Itunes always instantly sees the Iphone, connects, and syncs.


I hope this will help someone.


Since the sad demise of Mr Jobs aspects of Apple have gone noticeably down hill..

May 25, 2013 10:52 AM in response to WernerSg

@WernerSg THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been going crazy trying to get my iPod Touch to sync over wifi again. It just stopped and I couldn't do anything to get it to work again. I even did a restore of the whole device!


I read your suggestion and thought that's so easy I can't believe it would work - why should it work? But it's easy enough to toggle the wifi on/off on my notebook so I tried it. After I wifi connected my notebook again, iTunes immediately found my Touch and started syncing!


I'd rebooted by pc and iPod numerous times, reset the router, and even restored my iPod. So why would toggling my wifi with iTunes open work? I have no idea. But it did.


Thanks so much for posting this!

Jun 1, 2013 5:02 PM in response to Dirty-Harry

This may already been noted elsewhere, but a reset of my iphone 4's network settings may have fixed my wifi sync issues. I had to do thet network settings reset for an unrelated problem. Then, when the iphone restarted (it had been plugged in already this whole time), the wifi sync began immediately. Just a thought that resetting network settings might help someone.

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