stuck on waiting for changes to be applied

I still cannot sync properly, even on my brand new iPhone 5S. If I leave it connected for 30 mins or so, it will start to sync but not finish, and some of the "synced" files are actually missing. It is extraordinary that Apple could have released an iTunes-iOS combination with this bug - and that they have failed to do anything about it!

2) you have initiated a download of music through iTunes on your iPhone, and the downloads have not completed

After reading this, I checked what might be downloading on my iPad and found that the updates had crashed. I turned the iPad off and on again. This allowed the updates to restart and then I was able to transfer purchases and sync with no problem.

I continue to have this problem on my 4S with 7.0.2. I've tried following the instructions here, but without success. If I do let the "waiting for changes to be applied" thing continue, it eventually decides to resync all of my content.

This seems to allow syncs to work for a couple of days, but then things fail again.

I do not have any duplicated voice memos.

I do not have any Manually Added Music.

Help, apple, Help!

None of these have worked for me. Some suggestions are just dangerous. Erase this. Delete that. I think it is appalling that Apple have left us to resolve their problems. Really sick of the Apple's stragle-hold on my media. Android here I come.

Right there with you, Charrabank. I've restored my iPod several times. Reinstalled iTunes. Doesn't fix it. My only workaround (not a workable workaround) is that I can get it to load music onto my iPod if I do a full factory restore and reload. But then if I want to add music after that, I have to do another full factory restore. Nothing has worked so far.

This is for my iPod Touch. Was looking at an iPhone later this spring when I think I'll be able to afford it, but I'm not going to get one if this glitch isn't resolved by then.

I have an iPad Gen 3 running iOS 7.02 and iTunes 11.1.1. I had to do the Restore from Backup option to get the iPad to load new content. I could make changes to apps, music, videos, but not books and photos. Just sat on 'Waiting to apply changes'. Now that I have completed the restore I am able to load the books and photots on the iPad. Never have had to complete the Restore option before iOS 7.0 to load new content. Unbelievable been with Apple since iPhone Gen 1 and never had to complete a Restore to add content.

i've been having the same frustrations including uninstall and reinstall of itunes, then a full restore of my phone to factory, 2 converstations with tech support, and finally

I FOUND THIS SOLUTION.....

with my iphone 5 plugged in to my laptop, when the iphone appears in itunes, i clicked the iphone to open the phone summary page. then on the top tabs, i clicked on "music", then i checked the "sync music" box where it allows you to chose if you want to sync certain playlists, your whole library, or whatever you prefer. i repeated the same process for tones, books, etc. For me it was a simple setting that i never knew existed in many years and many ipods.

hope this helps many.

Apple. You are a bunch of c***s. You want £25.00 off me to fix your problem on my phone. You can stick it where the sun don't shine. iPhone is going straight on eBay, I will be buying a Samsung next week. I will never buy one of your POS phones again!!!

Have had this problem many times, had various solutions each time something different, but THIS time I noticed after the sync, that I had a podcast still downloading on my iPod... maybe this creates issues seeing as how I have several podcasts automatically downloading. Now iPod seems to be syncing nicely.

I updated to I07 the day it came out. I have hated it ever since. But the "waiting for changes to be applied" just started the last few days. I was so frustrated that I ended up wiping out my iPhone and setting it up as a new phone. Still didn't solve the issue. So I wiped it a 2nd time and did a restore from back from May of 2011 that was in the list. Waited for everything to copy and still didn't sync!!! So I restored to my most recent back up and that is where it is currently. I stays on waiting for changes to be applied. I had a talk with an Apple tech a couple of days ago over an entirely different issue and I expressed my frustration. He said there are many complaining about "bugs" with I07. He suggested I leave feedback for them. I said, "oh I did." I left comments on Apple's facebook page and told them I was close to leaving them as a customer. I've always been a huge Apple advocate but this last update really, really *****. Before that it was the new itunes update that totally changed everything! I hate the new operating system and I hate the new itunes too. At this point if I could get any money out of my iPhone 4S I am ready to sell it and move over to a Samsung Note II. My friend did the same and he said he will never go back to an iPhone. Maybe it's time.

Until Apple fixes the problem, I have stopped syncing my iphone to my computer. I'm using the Podcasts app to download the podcasts directly. And I'm using the Amazon cloud player to play my music. As long as I make all new music purchases through Amazon, I don't really need itunes.

The Podcasts app sometimes needs a few tries to detect all of the podcasts that need updating. But otherwise this works pretty well. Of course I still can't create playlists that mix podcasts and other media.

I just 'upgraded' to 7.0.3. and my phone was also stuck and the following worked for me;

1) Cancel the stuck sync in iTunes by clicking on the "x"

2) Disconnect the iPhone from the USB cable

3) Power down the iPhone

4) In iTunes, deselect "automatically sync when this iPhone is connected"

5) Close iTunes

6) Power up your iPhone again

7) Connect your iPhone to your computer/laptop

8) Launch iTunes

9) Click on "Sync."

It's syncing all songs again (I guess that's where the problem lies) so it's taking a little bit longer, but there is no need to do all sort of complicated stuff or following some kind of "short support guide" (yeah, riiight) which entails re-creating your iTunes music library.

10) Once you have manually done a sync, you can go back into iTunes and re-select "automatically sync when this iPhone is connected."

All in all it's pretty pathetic that Apple still has this issue! 😠

I too had the same issues. Rebooted, re-synched, restored, started with a fresh redo of a "newly set-up iPhone" ... nothing seemed to work.

I followed Kianhow23 advise carefully and that at least got me started.

The I figured that maybe it is a matter of time and rebuilding the iPhone set-up ... some said to be patient. I have about 8000 songs and 30 GB of music ... ok - so I did.

I re-imported my music not all at once but with the option of "selected playlists, albums and genres" - so I did about 500 songs at a time ... and indeed slowely my music folder was growing. I took time but now all music is synched and all is well.

It appears indeed that the "first synch" after the new IOS upgrade simply will take a long or very long time and patience is the essence. Doing about 500 songs at a time allowed me to watch the progress and see that all seemed to work.

MJS-AVCHD,

I too thought that having the "first synch" work meant that all following syncs would work. The syncs worked a few times and then went back to the same issue even if I had changed no music or apps or anything on the phone.

For me it seems turning anything to do with iCloud off, rebooting the phone and then transferring purchases manually prior to the sync works most of the time.

Nothing so far has fixed this issue for me... full factory reset and restore, power-cycling before each sync, manually synching -- none of it. When I tried to resync my iPhone after the factory reset, it didn't even transfer over all of my music. About 2/3 of my library was synched, then I manually tried to bring the rest over and it brought over all but 350 random tracks, then I had to manually bring over those 350 tracks.

None of this happened until iOS 7.0.3 and iTunes 11.1.2. There's got to be bugs in the system somewhere.