iPhone 5 stuck at "waiting for items to copy"

Just synced my iPhone 5 and I have all apps, music, etc but its stuck at "waiting for items to copy" 6 of 6


what can I do?


iTunes is up to date

Windows Vista

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 7:16 PM

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Nov 28, 2013 1:58 AM in response to AramTag

I've got the actual fix for this. It requires a total restore of your phone (not from a backup). This is located in your iPhone tab in iTunes next to "check for an update". Be you do the restore make sure you have your phone backed up. Completely restore your phone and once complete it will ask you to then restore from a past backup....choose the latest one you just did before performing the total backup. This entire process takes quite a long time so I'd encourage you to have something else to do during these steps. Upon completion of the backup recovery everything will be fixed and your syncing issues will be back to normal!

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