iPad and iTouch on same PC/Mac

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iPad and iTouch on same PC/Mac

Hi all,

i've just ordered a new iPad 3 for my sons Christmas present (don't tell him!! 😁 ) and wondered if he is still going to be able to use his iTouch on his Windows based Laptop as well as the iPad?

I know that if you plug in a different iPhone or iTouch into a PC/Mac, iTunes recognises it as a new or different peice of hardware and prompts to add it as a new item. Does this mean that after he's plugged in and synced his iTouch, when he plugs in his iPad he will have to deleted and add all the music, etc to it - then when he plugs in the iTouch this will have to happen again and so on??

I'm hoping that an iPad has a different way this is done which will allow him to have all his music, games, etc on both and iTunes not worry about which one is being synced?

iPad, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 23, 2012 5:48 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 23, 2012 5:52 AM in response to matthewfrombasingstoke

iTunes will recognize each device and allow for controlling the synch for each separately.

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Oct 23, 2012 6:00 AM in response to matthewfrombasingstoke

matthewfrombasingstoke wrote:

Hi all,

i've just ordered a new iPad 3 for my sons Christmas present (don't tell him!! 😁 )

Too late. I just spilled the beans! 😁

Your son can sync 20 devices to the same iTunes library - that is if you are generous enough to buy him 18 more - without any worries at all. I sync 3 devices to my iTunes library and I select the exact content that I want to put on each device by setting the sync presences for each device in iTunes.

You can read this for more information on how the sync preferences can be set up for each device.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296

and this one as well.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386

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