stuck on waiting for changes to be applied

I just find it hard to believe apple have not fixed this yet!!! my iphone is almost an ibrick. windows phone or android is looking more appealing each day now.

This is my first downloaded iTunes under new device, and I am having problem "syncing IPhone step four of four will not complete".

So much for deleting iTunes and reinstalling it!

I don't know how you figured this out. But it was amazing and worked perfectly. Thank you!

I had the same problem and i just figured it out. CLOSE OUT ALL APPS ON PHONE before syncing and it will sync like a charm. Tried several times with this method and it worked for me

Thank you! This was also the solution to syncing my iPhone 6 with iOS 8 and iTunes 11.4! Thanks!

Second that thanks. I've only been having problems here and there, but closed all apps and sync took a total of about 2 minutes with zero issues.

IPhone 6/ios8 and Itunes 12

Close all apps and TURN OFF BACKGROUND APP REFRESH. and it worked!!!!! MANY MANY THANKS!!!

Spoke too soon. It synced one time. Hung second time, then I have gigs and gigs of "other". Had to blitz my phone.

L3nn1n got it right. It worked for me, anyway.

Apple really should fix this glitch. Until then,

just follow the steps below in the post by L3nn1n.

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Agreed. This is nonsense.

Did the genius have any thoughts about what to do if you don't use Voice Memos?

I taking restores as back ups everyday both to icloud and itunes, because of the amount of problems I have with syncing.

It used to be fine. The situation is pretty appalling.

Ahah. You know what device never fails me? My samsung. This is why I'll never get an iPhone.

Apple doesn't respond to most threads. We never know whether they are working on most bugs, even the very simple and obvious bugs.