stuck on waiting for changes to be applied

Thank you so much! 🙂

I'm curious if the folks on this or the other threads dedicated to this problem have pretty substantial (say, over 25 GB) music files.

I ask because the simplest thing seems like it solved it for me. Every sync since downloading ios 7 and itunes 11.1 encountered this problem. I did all the resets of my device and Macbook Air, re-installed itunes, factory reset on my iphone (4s), turned off Genius and Find My Phone, double checked my download file in itunes, deleted all my voice memos, deleted all my media and then re-installed it, basically any of the suggestions I came across on the discussion boards or were recommended during any of my three Apple support chat sessions, it still hung up every time resulting in partial or complete deletion of my music and other media.

Then this evening for the first time I fought the urge to cancel the sync when it seemingly got stuck and I just let it go. Well over an hour later the sync finished seemingly normally and since then it's been fine, syncing just as quickly as it always used to. I've got about 43GB of music that syncs every time, I wonder if there isn't something that the new itunes/ios needs to do to the individual files that just takes awhile. My wife updated to ios 7 on the same day I did and never had this issue, the only noticeable difference between our phones is the size of our respective music libraries.

There is no question that the combination of iOS 7 and iTunes 11.1 takes more time to sync (waiting for changes to be applied) than prior releases. I have an extremely large iTunes library (217GB of music across 24,400 songs and that doesn't include video), so I have to create smart playlists to limit what is sync'd to my 64GB iPhone.

That being said, the original problem I had (and others) never went away despite leaving it waiting overnight. I had to go through the steps I outlined before I was successful in reseting the behavior.

gotcha.

Pain in the neck it may be, glad you could find a solution.

of course, now they have iOS 7.0.2 so maybe the gremlins will come right back.

THANKS! I was finally able to complete the sync.

I tried doing what ever you said..

But dint work for me 😢

I just have 478 songs in my music library...

I am either stuck with this Waiting for changes to be applies issue or cancel sync issue...

I am so ****** 😟

I really dunno what to do to restore my music library..

Thank GOD other apps and data are intact...

Please check the image below... The music sync symbol is not loaded too

I've been having this problem for the last week since upgrading to iOS 7. I'll bookmark this thread and try what's been suggested at work tomorrow. Mine does eventually does sync, but I have to leave a good 10 mintues.

I also find once it's synced the and I make a change and sync again it goes through normally (quickly).

I am having all the same probs. Nobody has come up with anything that fixes the music/video sync on mine. Tried it all. You're the 1st one I've come across with the hitting its own buttons. Mine is doing that. Dial one contact, shows that another is being called, and actually called an entirely different person.

Before nuking your music (and movie) collection try turning off your password for autolock (just for the sync). I saw this on another stream and I now seem get past the "waiting for change" message. Of course I am in the process of restoring all my music and videos because I nuked my stuff. Jeff (from JeffandLaurel 🙂)

Unfortunately I did have to move the iTunes.xml file to the desktop and remove the iTunes.itl file as per the instructions. I am now watching a restoration of 20 GBytes of videos and audio. What a drag. 😠

Jeff (from JeffandLaurel 🙂)

I am so irritated with this bunch of bull$h*t ! I just rolled to an iPhone just to give it a try, and of course, nothing can go right. Nothing can be easy, but you have to do this, you have to do that. I have never, EVER, been more dissapointed for a cell phone, as I am with apple right now. It's just so stupid to have to go through all sorts of shchenannigans just to get music on your **** device. While we pay 650 bucks for this device, I don't think they REFUND the time that WE are NOT able to USE the device ! It's just so stupid, what happened to simplicity, drag and go ?! I have tried everything ya'll have suggested on this thread and others. Nothing is working. I am about to run the **** thing over, call insurance, and just roll back to an Android.

Can you perhaps say more on this? I've tried a few suggestions and some problems have been solved however, more would be nice as I still can't sync for some odd reason.

Just chiming in with "same problem" (and bug report filed at http://www.apple.com/feedback/). Syncing via USB. No iCloud usage. Problem started this week. Did not occur with iOS 7.0 and iTunes 11.1, but seems to have happened after iOS 7.0.2.

I was able to fix my problem by turning off Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi. Just unticked the box, retried the sync and it completed sucessfully. It seemingly had copied over all of the files just had not updated the index to show them. I know this because while unable to find the songs in the library I was looking for, I did see that the exact amount of data I synced was accounted for on the disk space remaining bar. It may not work for you, but it certainly did for me. First and only thing I have tried after putting up with this issue since upgrading to the new and "improved" iOS 7.

I seem to have fixed the problem by un-syncing all non-app content (removing all music, podcasts, photos, etc., but not apps) from the iPod, disabling auto-lock on the iPod, re-syncing all content, and re-enabling auto-lock. Three good syncs today following this.

Possibly related: I'm no longer seeing any device backups listed in iTunes Prefs / Devices, except for only the most recent backup. I've tried toggling backup encryption and autosync, to no effect.