Syncing Apps to iPhone 6 / 6 Plus Stuck

Also having the same problems trying to update from an iPhone 5 to iPhone 6 Plus. Tried everything mentioned here and no luck yet. Couple of pieces of extra information that I haven't seen mentioned here yet: on at least 2 occasions while I was trying different things, the phone just restarted. Doesn't appear to be a loose/bad cable since I tried wiggling the cable and can't get it to happen again. I'm also getting messages like this in the console:

9/20/14 1:44:18.005 AM iTunes[436]: Operation 0x7f8b0847e120 timed out!

9/20/14 1:45:18.005 AM iTunes[436]: Operation 0x7f8b099e1e70 timed out!

9/20/14 1:46:18.005 AM iTunes[436]: Operation 0x7f8b099e1f80 timed out!

9/20/14 1:47:18.004 AM iTunes[436]: Operation 0x7f8b01fddd40 timed out!

9/20/14 1:48:18.005 AM iTunes[436]: Operation 0x7f8b0441b100 timed out!

And this is happening as I am stuck on copying apps: 12 of 116. The first time through I think I only got as far as 3 out of some other number in the 100's. Of course I actually have about 380 apps so as I have read elsewhere, the numbers also seem to be in error. Not a pleasant experience so far wasting an entire evening with this.

To Dennis and Michael,

The backup I'm trying to restore comes from a device under ios8, so it seems to me that installing an ios7 backup is not the issue.

And all my apps were updated prior to trying to sync the new device.

Just got back from the Apple Store.

After talking to a genius, he thinks the backup may be corrupted. I'm trying to restore from my own backup.

If it doesn't work, I have an appointment to check where the problem is, with the imac under my arm.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Having the same issues restoring from iPhone 5s on ios 8 to apn iPhone 6 but using windows. Instead of hanging itunes just crashes and throws up an "itunes is not responding" message and the only option is to close it down.

Its definitely something to do with iOS 8 as I originally did the update over wi-fi on the phone and even backing the phone up to the PC was causing it to crash, that's before I even started with the restore.

So after eventually removing the last 6 or so apps that had been updated I finally got the phone to backup. Now it just fails on the restore every time as soon as it attempts to copy the 1st app. So far nothing has worked.

2nd Update - As I mentioned I did manage to get the apps copied by syncing via iTunes with the phone in airplane mode. I mentioned before that data for apps was lost. This was not true. Some for example Starbucks I had to sign in again. Others for example iBank Mobile had all my financial data intact. Any app with an account that required I log in had to be logged in again.

Also I said that iTunes would not allow me to restore a second time, showing the phone as never backed up. I was impatient. This is what iTunes showed while the backup was in progress. When complete, the restore from backup option was there. I ran it again to see whether it would restore apps to their logged in state. It ran but did not help.

To fix problem. Quit iTunes than restart your Mac and restart your iPhone. Erase your iPhone, than plug your USB to your Mac and open iTunes.Than download your back up. That all.

I had the same issue but I finally got it to finish syncing.

My last series of moves were as follows:

• Synced via WIFI (It hung up after about 10 apps)
• Plugged my phone in hoping sync would jump-start (nope)
• Quit iTunes, interrupting the frozen sync (phone still plugged in)
• Turned off WIFI and turned on Airplane Mode
• Relaunched iTunes and the sync process finally completed

I did solution #2 and it worked! Shut off wifi and connected phone into computer. Thank you!

I'm having this problem. I'm restoring from iCloud. I have no idea what could fix this because of how much of a black box this backup / restore process is.

By the way it's been restoring for 15 hours now. I'm connected to WiFi.

One more (well, two actually) points. Two of us with iPhone 6’s synced to two different computers, both failed in the same way. Wifi seems to be working.

Agree entirely - my husband's 6 synced seamlessly on his MBPro which is on 10.9.4 and my new 6 is experiencing the problems mentioned on this thread, using my MBAir on 10.9.5. . . How do we tell Apple of our woes?!

Thanks for spotting the issue!

I finally got mine to finish, but only after many attempts. When it hung, I'd just disconnect and reconnect and it would usually get a little farther.

Something is timing out in the process and stopping the sync. None of the "fixes" mentioned here or in other searches really fixed the problem - it still hung up regardless of whether wifi sync was on or off, airport mode on or off, etc.

Another vote for using the new cable - seems implausible but having tried 2 other lightning cables and wifi sync this worked first time; I'd quite like to know why....

Thought I had got mine to complete last night (via the no Wi-Fi method), only to realise it went through some strange 'capacity' issues. I then adjusted what music folders were checked to sync and it all seemed to be ok, although the final stage of syncing ('Step 6 of 6 Waiting for changes to be applied') just sat there with the bar underneath scrolling ad nauseum (as it is again now).

Have just tried to access Music on my phone only to realise that all the folders are there but nothing else - no music in the folders. . . Not sure how to solve this.

Also - losing the will - as not sure how to solve the 10.9.5 thing - can't go backwards to 10.9.4, can I?

Come on Apple - too many problems emerging for a simple soul like me. . . Need some software fixes and soon!