itunes 12 will not recognize iphone

Just login and search for the title of this thread again. Happened to me just seconds ago.

Hi oskapt,

I used your cronjob line and crafted a little automator script.

How?

* Start Automator

* Choose to create a "Program"

* Expand the library and select tools, then "execute applescript" (might be named slightly different, my mac talks german :-) )

* In the appearing textbox replace whatever is in there with this:

set app_name to "usbmuxd"

set the_pid to (do shell script "ps ax | grep " & (quoted form of app_name) & " | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'")

if the_pid is not "" then do shell script ("kill " & the_pid) with administrator privileges

Select File / Export and save to either programs, desktop or whereever you like.

Double-click to run the Program.

It will ask you for the admin pwd and hit usbmuxd in the face.

Thanks, Adrian! 🙂

Peter

It keeps logging me out too? I log in, come into this thread still logged in, click to the next page and I'm logged out again..What's that about?! It's taken me 3 attempts to get here just to reply!

I can get into most threads but when I click on yours frighty I get a T&C page

That's really weird, I've had a response on the thread now too, so it must be active. I'll try and repost the link..

iPhone will not sync to iTunes (12)

This looks like to be the right solution for me, as I'm getting the same problem myself on Yosemite 10.10.1. I'll drop Apple a feedback line on this.

Hi

I just thought I'd drop a note as I fixed my syncing problem. In the end I used the 'reset network settings' on my iPhone which appeared to kick things back into life, it looks like my mac and iOS had somehow un trusted each other, and after a few attempts iTunes finally popped up the trust message again and all kicked back in. I don't really get what happened on a technical level or why my iPod nano would not sync either but it seems to have cleared that too.

Looking at the console messages there were errors appearing under the usbmuxd heading, some kind of mismatch in authorisation when connecting the device via the usb ports. Getting the devices to trust one another again seemed to be key, but it took the reset of the network to get the devices talking again, before that the console did not even register the devices being connected.

Hopefully this might help someone else through the fog one day.

you ARE a star, now let's see how long it takes Apple to get their act together

long long time ago iTunes was a stable piece of software, but.....

Well this completely solved my issue, both of iTunes taking forever to launch and then not recognizing any connected devices (along with the idiotic "Trust this computer?" message on my iPhone when I plug it in), and Safari taking forever to launch also.

Hi

Sorry to be a nuisance, but I liked this solution and have just tried to get it to work for me, Unfortunately it comes up with an error message and sadly I'm not savvy enough to be able to correct it!

The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error.

Check the actionʼs properties and try running the workflow again

As suggested I just cut and paste the contents

SteveS

(Puzzled!)

Not enough information to diagnose the issue. Try just using Force Quit on usbmuxd from Activity Monitor.

SteveSJS,

you're totally right but I don't have a clue why. So this script

set app_name to "usbmuxd" set the_pid to (do shell script "ps ax | grep " & (quoted form of app_name) & " | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'") if the_pid is not "" then do shell script ("kill " & the_pid) with administrator privileges

definitely works. I just don't know why it fails once I copy/paste it out of here. Just to make it bomb-proof here's a screenshot of that part of the automator (click on it to see in full):

Clicking the green play button should work. The file/save or File/export creates the program.

Curious really, but thank you for the reply. Your' right it appears to run just from within automator, it's only once exported it fails from the desktop.

No matter I'll live with that fro the time being.

IT does appear to work and that's good enough - I can live with it until App;e get of their butts and replace the dross that is currently iTunes. Supposedly soon...

Many thanks in the meantime.

Same here. Only temporary. It's irritating as that warning window won't go away when I press OK.

I wonder if that's related to my other loop, I have between telling me:

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Some of the items in the iTunes library, including

"Garden Party" were not copied to the iPad "iPad

(Howard Brazee's)" because you are not authorized for them on this computer.

To authorize this computer for items purchased from the iTunes

Store, choose Store > Authorize This Computer.

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and when I do so:

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This computer is already authorized.

Including this one, you have authorized 2 computers out of your

available 5.

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