My iphone is not showing up as a device in itunes when it is plugged into my computer, how do I fix this?

Thank you. I was ready to go crazy until I found your solution.

Thanks JF Fourie, that was really helpful. I was able to get my PC to recognize my iPhone again. It was very quick! 🙂

Thanks JF Fourie, it worked for me too 🙂🙂

Thank you so much for your well written solution! Yay! Now I can move the pics off my phone...thanks!

Had a similar problem this fix worked.....thanks

If you cannot see your device in iTunes

1. Open the Device Manager in Windows as follows:
   Windows XP: Click Start > Run. In the resulting dialog type devmgmt.msc and press Return.
   Windows Vista or Windows 7: Click Start. In the dialog, type devmgmt.msc and press Return. If Windows needs your permission to continue, click "Continue".
   Windows 8: Move the cursor to the upper right corner, click the magnifying glass, type devmgmt.msc, and press Return.
2. Expand all the sections labeled below (not all sections may be listed):

   Portable Devices

3. Right click and select update driver. It should solve the problem.

Hi tried this but it says '

the folder you specified doesnt contain a compatible software driver for your device.If the folder contains a driver ,make sure itis designed to work with your windows 32 bit systems'

usbaapl does seem to be only an .inf file

Any ideas ? Please, it seems to of worked on other peoples but not mine.

Follow these steps exactly and should work fine. I had the same problem, fixed in minutes.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923😀

I am on a mac, can you please help me, I'm having the same issues everyone else was having. If you could that would be great. Thanks

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

have been struggling for hours with my iphone abd ipad then i read your suggestion and wo!!!like magic; thank you thank you thank you!!

Thank you, it fixed it for me as well

Thank you so much for the step-by-step instructions - this solved my issue! 🙂

I followed this step twice (to be sure) and got the message both times: 'Windows found the driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it, Apple recovery (iBoot) USB Driver, access denied'....any further suggestions please?

Device is listed as being in recovery mode with the following message: 'The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) Access is denied. To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver'......hence I followed the above instruction to locate and install driver software but with no luck