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Hi and thanks in advance for your help.
There are some apps that I have downloaded on my Mac through iTunes that wont sync to my iPhone. My iTunes says I have 70 apps and my iPhone says I have 68.
I have Mac OS X 10.7 and an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.3.3.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Might some apps be iPad only?
I assume you see the 70 apps on the Apps row of iTunes. What do you see when syncing your iPhone on the Apps tab in iTunes when the iPhone is selected on the left side of iTunes? And how have you set up the sync rule for your apps?
They are not iPads apps. The two apps that won't sync are in the iPhone and iPod touch apps.
Yes I see the 70 apps in the apps tab under LIBRARY in iTunes.
My apps are not set up to sync under the Apps tab (DEVICES) because when I select Sync Apps, it says that it will delete the apps data and replace it with apps in iTunes.
So I assume you can name the two apps that you're missing on your iPhone.
So how about setting up a sync to sync only those two apps from iTunes to your iPhone?
Before doing that, please make sure the sync is only one way -- in other words, you don't want the 68 apps deleted. I'm pretty sure that won't happen, but without plugging my own iPhone into iTunes, I can't honestly recall if there's some box you have to check to make sure the sync goes only one way -- introduces the new apps from your computer to your iPhone.
So I opted to sync the apps and actually what happened is that only the apps that weren't on the iphone synced to the iphone, the apps that were already on the iphone weren't overwritten as I had feared. Thank you for your help!
Outstanding! That sounds like exactly the result you hoped for.
By the way, in case it helps, I sync all my apps all the time. The data in the apps on my iPhone does not get destroyed each time.
I'm not suggesting you start syncing all your apps now, as there's no reason to do that. But I am thinking that one of these days you might replace your iPhone 3GS with a later model, and use iTunes to populate your new iPhone with apps you had on your 3GS, and that won't be a bad experience.
Good luck!
I actually think I will start doing exactly that. Thanks for the advice!
Apps downloaded on iTunes won't sync to iPhone 3GS
