stuck on waiting for changes to be applied

Your resolution worked!! Thank you so much! I think because I restored from iCloud backup and not everything downloaded so I went to iTunes to sync to get my apps

And it wouldn't finish the last step... Stopped the downloading apps and music and it worked. Good call. Everything's working now and it only took 2 days to get my new iPhone 5c playing my music. :-)

Thanksbes2dt10 for the advice. What I did:

• Checked "manually manage music" checkbox (in the "options" box in the "summary" screen for iPhone, when it is plugged in)
• I also had the "only sync checked music" checkbox checked
• When I did that and then did a sync, it appeared to be copying music to my phone. I don't know if it was copying music to a new "manually managed section" on my phone, or what. It took a few minutes to start, and maybe 10 minutes to finish doing whatever copying it was doing.
• After that, all my music was on the phone. But I wanted to get out of the "manually managed" mode, so I went back and unchecked the "manually managed" checkbox and did another sync.
• That sync didn't take very long to finish. I guess the music was all on the phone now, after the whole "manually managed" sync had done its thing.
• Now it all appears to be fine.

I think what this process did was replace all the music that was on my phone by what was on the computer. In any case, it's fixed now.

I would just like to say I've had the same problems. iPhone 4s randomly deleted contacts and music a couple of days ago so I decided to restore. I think mine is getting hung up with files i put in audiobooks. I'm going to try to stop audiobooks from syncing and see what happens. The problem with this is everytime i try to sync, and it get stuck it places 11 gb of other on my phone which i need to restore to get rid of. With finals around the corner, I am a sad person.😢

In addition to what I said above: I think that if you're having this problem, it would be good to wait a good 10 or 20 minutes just to see if it clears up on its own. I wish I had tried that before going to all the trouble that I did with my "manually managed" workaround. Even with my workaround, it took several minutes to start processing individual songs, and I kinda wonder if it would have worked the regular way if I had given it more time.

This was the fix for mine after trying for days!!!

I am a professional full time DJ. I purchased the iPad exclusively for DJ use. This means that I am constantly adding and removing tracks. I understand the initial sync will take long but to sync for hours or days is not acceptable when making small changes. After you let it sync for days, how long did it take to sync the next time?

It's amazing that with a $2500 iMac and an $850 5s I have to wait hours to transfer a couple hundred songs. Every iDevice I've owned since 2002 (about 12-15 of them) has synced just fine on all my Macs including my current iMac. Syncing was never a problem.

I've tried all of the less time-intensive solutions mentioned in this thread to no avail.

I refuse to spend an entire day doing things just short of restoring the Mac OS and iOS when this all started with the release iOS7 and iTunes 11.1.3.

Syncing is the most basic and important thing iTunes does with iDevices. I can't believe they can't fix this.

At least come out and admit there is a problem so people don't waste hours of their time trying to guess how to fix it.

Geez.

Sorrry for the rant.

I have not read all of the threads. Perhaps this helps:

- Doing a reset fixes the problem one time. I needed to reset every time I needed to sync.

- When iTunes shows "waiting to sync", simply unplug at the usb jack end and replug. Seems to work.

- We have 7 iOS devices including iOS5, 6 and 7 devices. This only happens on one iPad retina mini. Which happens to have the identical sync as an iPad 3 running iOS6. I would suggest this is neither an OS X nor a iOS issue but a hardware issue.

*** PLEASE READ ***

GUYS THIS IS IMPORANT WE NEED TO FIX THIS ASAP

It appears that Apple has so far been unable to fix this problem. I propose we give them all the information they need to troublehsoot it. I have created a free survey that goes over the basic points. Maybe they can round it down to a specific attribute?

PLEASE TAKE TIME AND FILL THE INFO OUT https://www.quicksurveys.com/s/n4DMr5

APPLE OR ANYONE INTERESTED CAN view survey reports page, https://www.quicksurveys.com/report.aspx?surveyId=1149655

Wow, only been a couple of hours and already I am starting to see a trend form. --> iOS 7 <--

APPLE OR ANYONE INTERESTED CAN view survey reports page, https://www.quicksurveys.com/report.aspx?surveyId=1149655

On the right hand side, click expand all

yeah, I know this is not scientific but its better than nothing!

I hope more people respond.

After spending way too many hours trying to figure out why my iPhone 5 would not sync for the past several weeks, I finally came across the solution outlined by cpaulPHL. I tried going through it carefully, step by step, and it worked! I did find a Voice Memo that was left open and closed it. Never thought to look in there before when troubleshooting. I don't know if that's what did it, but after going through all his other steps, my iPhone is now syncing again, for the first time in weeks!

For the record, his solution looks long and complicated, but that's due to the fact that he takes you through the details of every step. It actually is simpler than it looks, and a whole lot better than some of the other solutions I've seen proposed, which included completely reformatting my phone. No thank you.

Thank you cPaul for solving my worst iPhone experience yet!

Sorry to add just a complaint, but this issue is driving me crazy. Yesterday, I decided to nuke my iPad from orbit (it's the only way to be sure). I restored it to new device status, and started rebuilding it. For some reason, iTunes is not finding my apps, even though they're in the right folder. Given that I'm finding apps as I go, I have to start a lot of syncs. And given that each sync takes at least 10-15 minutes to start, it's incredibly laborious. The process will stretch out over days, due to Apple's inability to address this well-known, long-standing bug.

Really tired of this.

Sorry I did not realize that the results were not viewable. Please go to this link to see the results, and thank you for participating. Hopefully Apple will look at the poll results and figure out what is wrong.

https://www.quicksurveys.com/s/Wa27Jce

Thanks for your initiative ; but could you modify your poll at the item :

"How many songs are you trying to sync?"

and add a "no songs" button ; because I (and so others) am stucked with my ipad and no music to be synced... (only books, photos and apps).

Same issue here.

Turning off, syncing and after that turning on "Sync Music" helped me