stuck on waiting for changes to be applied

Can the lazy slugs at Apple fix their junk please.

For me, the workaround simply is activating flight mode on the iPhone before syncing, maybe this helps someone here too.

I signed out of iTunes store, then signed back in. I was able to transfer purchses from iPod to iTunes.

30 hours later

4725 songs out of 12611 synced

What a ****ing joke.

Restored iPhone. Selected my latest backup profile and it's stuck on "waiting for items to copy" again. Wifi sync on phone says it's syncing Tones. I have no idea what to do now.

Ah it's iTunes itself. Just wiped the iPhone and without restoring any backups it's still stuck sending Tones over.

Hmm, I just tried that and its now syncing files across.

Interestingly too after I removed music from my device, it's just shifted over to the OTHER useage bar. 36gb of Other just appeared!

...and it didn't work. How strange that even a clean, full format of two devices would produce such different results.

This is good news, if, as you say it works for everyone. I'm stumped with this problem so I'll wait with great anticipation! Thanks for letting us know.

Well, have the updated iTunes and the phone is updated and ...stop the press...it all sync'd fine, no issues!

Your suggestion really worked for me. I had exactly the same problem: stuck on Waiting for changes to be applied. Transferring purchases from the iPhone before syncing solved the problem.

Unfortunately that's all you can do. Find one, pick one, try one.

Still waiting on the fix Apple said they would include in their next update. This is such a sad situation.

quitting all the apps running on the iOS devise worked for me right away! it is at least a simple fix to try w/o restoring/etc.

Disabling Convert High Bitrate music did not fix mine.

I was able to move past this by removing all my missing files.