applications will not sync

I think it is a bug. It should work by copying apps bought on the phone back to your iTunes. Only way to update currently on itunes is to Apps > check for updates

Yet another reason for not updating to iTunes 11. Another

broken functionality.

Just throwing my 2 cents in. I, too, am certain that something is definitely not working right with iTunes 11. I carefully selected certain apps to update on my iPad 3 and tried to sync the updated versions to iTunes. Comparing versions after syncing, I can confirm that iTunes 11 is definitely not copying over the updated versions of apps that were updated on my iPad from the iOS iTunes App Store. Even the "Updates Available" counter badge shows a different count between my Mac and iPad.

I am really hoping that this will be fixed with an update to iTunes 11. So far, nothing terrible has happend; just an inconvenience to do things manually. It certainly doesn't "just work."

For reference I'm running iOS 6.0.1 on my iPad 3 and iTunes 11.0.1 on an '07 iMac running OS X 10.7.5.

I have found that you can actually kick this off manually. At least it works on my machine de interested to know if other peole experience the same.

Select your device in Left Sudebar

Click File > Devices > Transfer Purchases from device

This seems to work but I think it should be part of the standard sync like it used to be.

Steve Taylor1 wrote:

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This seems to work but I think it should be part of the standard sync like it used to be.

One would think that should be the case. Guess the software

designers heads are lost in the iClouds!

Yeah I am being charitable and calling it an oversight. It would be fun to see what Functional Specs the software writers are working to...

I thought that this "new" 11.01 update was supposed to fix this BUG. Once this feature originally became available I thought "How Cool!", then they screw it up. I reverted my iMac back with time machine because it BUGGED me so much. I have never seen Apple be so irresponsible like this. I like to brag about my Apple products, not *****. They need to get their act together, regardless whether Window 8 is tossing even more users towards Apple products. They need to keep up the standards that the Apple devotees are used to, not put out bad apps and updates just like the "other" guys. Apple is or was better than that!

Well I bit the bullet and finally updated to iTunes 11 yesterday.

Downloaded the full installer package and installed it. I did not

do the software update method. I then rebooted (in the past,

found some things didn't always work until a reboot).

Started up the new iTunes 11. After fumbling around with the

new interface for a bit and trying to get things back to semi usable,

I held my breathe and plugged in my iPhone 4S.

The result, everything synced just as it did before. Apps I updated or

purchased on the iPhone were synced just fine to my computer. Just to

make sure, openned up the iTunes folder and in iTunes Media-> Mobile

Applications the apps there were the same version as those on my iPhone.

Now, my install was with the 11.0.1 update, if that means anything.

Also, not sure if the full install approach made a difference versus

the update approach made a difference.

BTW, system was 2011 MacMini Server with Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

and iOS 6 on my iPhone.

One thing that did happen, I did lose artwork on several of my CD

rips that I had previously added manually. It seems if the album/CD

doesn't exist in the iTunes Store, it erases the artwork.