stuck on waiting for changes to be applied

Hey,

this solved my problem. Just make sure that you that all your purchases from the iDevise have been transferred to your iTunes library in your computer before doing this. Just compare the number of songs in your iDevice and your iTunes Library.

After doing the above, just answer Yes when asked if you want to erase all the songs on your iDevice. Yes also to the questions if you want to replce the current library on your iDevice.

Thanks L3nn1n

Just to add that I've tried most of the solutions here (rebuilding library etc) and most did not work. It has been solved by me deleting all the songs on my iPad (from Settings / General / Usage / Music) *and* the empty playlist shells left behind (from music app, by long hold on playlist name) and then syncing after that. God knows it took a lot of fiddling though, and who knows, it'll probably occur again...

I tried to remove Xmas songs and add new songs to my iPod Touch today. Once again, it got jammed

at "waiting for changes to be applied".. I restored several times and it simply won't work.

Apple: please fix this bug in iOS7. There were no problems with sync with music, photos etc.

with iOS6. Thousands of users are experiencing the same problem when trying to sync

large quantities of content.

No question it's multifaceted, and not every solution will work.

In fact, I've attempted every solutuon posted so far (other than the Windows-specific ones) and they've all, eventually, failed.

That's why it's critical we all keep posting; the more specific we can get, the better equipped Apple's engineers will be to address this problem.

As for me, here's my latest: an AppleCare tech walked me through uploading my personal info (contacts & calendars) to iCloud, wiping my iPhone (uh-GAIN), and restoring from the cloud.

This was mainly to get rid of my increasingly huge "Other" storage (which consists, I suspect, of all the songs and movies that become inaccessible during these long syncs). It got rid of the "Other" just fine, and I've had no long syncs since then, either.

Now, that was only three days ago, so I'm far from convinced that I'm "cured." But at least it's one more thing some of us can try, if so inclined.

I am facing exactly the same situation as everyone posting here. Running all up to date software on iPhone 4S with 64GB space, syncing with macbook pro mavericks. Tried every solution posted such as removing all music from library, removing voice memos, resetting phone to factory settings, syncing only selected music, removing 'other' from the phone - none have worked consistently. Even if I could get it to sync briefly as soon as I connected the phone to the mac again or added some more music it would all get screwed up again and random tracks would disappear. Fed up with this issue - the reason I got an iphone was that everything would work flawlessly and smoothly - it seems not.

Please help Apple!

I have this issue too, I have currently been waiting for an hour and a half for my iPod to finish syncing a few tracks. It is not a problem with my hardware, it is most definitely a problem with iTunes for me.

Every time an iTunes update comes out I have long sync issues and once I have gone through the hassle of waiting for a stupid amount of time waiting to shuffle songs on/off it usually works fine. But until it completes that first sync I have problems. If I unplug my iPod (sometimes I just want to use the **** thing) I will start listening to a playlist and get the first second of a song before it skips to the next . Going back to the track list will show that the track I wanted is no longer on there. Or, as happened today, with it plugged in I will select a track and nothing plays.

I'm done updating iTunes now. Gonna stick with this current version until Apple can pull their collective fingers out and work towards a solution.

Here's something new:

I've gone almost a week without long-sync problems, which means I'm due any time now.

That said, I've long believed there was a "bad media file" somewhere in my music.

Yesterday, I discovered two purchased songs, no longer available on the iTunes music store, neither of which will play on my iPhone. Both will play on the computer, and I reloaded them from a separate drive back onto the phone and they STILL didn't play.

I took them out of the library entirely, but I've got them saved offline just in case it turns out they were the "culprits."

It may have to do with Apple's authorization requests - songs that were taken off the music store may have a harder time getting authorized, which may lead to whatever else we're experiencing.

Have had a LOT of trouble syncing my Ipad Mini with my Itunes on my Mac (OSX 10.8.5) . All Itune and Ipad software up to date.

It would get stuck on "Waiting for changes to be applied" and eventually crash. I followed numerous conversation threads and one suggestion for me worked. Might have been random, but when I checked "reset warnings" and then "Manually manage music and videos" it finally worked on that sync, after hours of trying other things. It still did stick on the Waiting for changes, but I left it on that warning, and several hours later, not sure how long, all music, videos,books, etc were synced. I think it just takes longer now with ios 7 and I-tunes 11. Currently at 7.0.4 and 11.1.3

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Awesome... worked perfectly. Like many folks here... I have spent HOURS trying to rexolve this. Even calling Apple Care several times with no luck! THANK YOU! The suggestion that worked came from -- cpaulPHL

Message was edited by: blgios

I noticed that I got this error after buying a bunch of 5 dollar mp3 albums from Amazon that I added to my IPad playlist. I was syncing to a PC on an IPad 2 with the most recent update for it and ITunes. To fix it I

!. Selected all the new tracks, rightclick, "convert to mp3"

2. Then I deleted all of the original tracks so that only the converted tracks remained

3. Apply

4. Sync

After that, all of the music loaded with no problem and no hanging on "awaiting changes to be applied"

Your mileage may vary

Funny, I had a similar problem - I was trying to see which tracks were always "vanishing," and the Amazon purchases turned up repeatedly

I did the same thing as Dannyverse. Fixed the problem for almost a week.

I wish I'd pointed out sooner; sorry, Dannyverse!

Funny, those were OLD Amazon purchases, too. Which makes it even more obviously an OS7 issue - they worked fine for YEARS before the update.

For now, I'm at eight (8) days without the problem. The "fix" for me was an online tech walking me through a backup to iCloud, followed by a clean restoration from iCloud. Weirdly, I've also gotten 200GB worth of reclaimed extra space on my hard drive. It's as if the old backups weren't being deleted at all.

Regardless, I'm maintaining a bare minimum of songs on the phone, to minimize the long sync when it returns.

Have had same problem on and off for a few weeks now. Have been on here for a few hours today reading everything that others have tried and finally found something that fixed my issue.

When my sync hangs, I have to cancel it, then right-click on my device and choose "Transfer Purchases." Once I do this, the next sync attempt works fine. I guess I downloaded an app from the app store on the iPhone at some point (I almost always get them from iTunes on my PC) that is having issues going from my phone back to iTunes on my PC.

Unfortunately, I can only get one good sync out of this before I have to repeat the process all over again, but it works for me every time.

No problems with purchase transfers. I rarely do so anyway, and typically download the purchases to my computer independently

Well, this last "fix" lasted me 10 days, almost a new record.

I'm on iChat, logging the latest data points.

There's something about iOS7 that REALLY hates audiobooks, is the nearest thing I can figure. These long syncs wipe out all the audiobooks and most of the AAC and MP3 files that weren't purchased.

Weird thing: I never have a problem with the iPad or iPad Mini, as long as there are no songs or audiobooks loaded onto them. But once I do, the long syncs wipe out most of the movie files along with them.

Well, I'm at my witts end. I've tried everything here and on other discussion threads and I basically now have two iPhone 5S bricks that are only capable of making a phone call. I can't get new apps, books, or music on either of them through iTunes. What's odd is one of my iPhones was exhibiting this problem almost from the day I bought it (Christmas gift) and now my other iPhone is too (another Christmas gift). I'm about to return them and switch to Android....