How can I prevent iTunes synching every new phone?

I've now tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, but it's still doing the same thing.

Now I've uninstalled and reinstalled as per Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates, and it's still syncing any phone I plug in.

It's already ticked hhgttg27. Something's gone wrong with iTunes, and even a complete uninstall and reinstall hasn't fixed it.

Should that option be already ticked after a reinstall? If not then uninstalling didn't lose all the settings. Must be some registry keys being left behind?

pshute wrote:

If I plug someone else's iPhone into my PC to do a backup or to upgrade it, I get two options:

- Set up as new phone

- Restore from backup

Obviously I don't want to choose the second one, so I choose the first one. Then it starts synching and renames the phone to the name of my phone, and I don't know what else.

In Preferences, I have "Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically" ticked. Why is it syncing? How can I stop it?

After a really long support call to Apple, it appears that this is normal behaviour. The phone is being renamed because iTunes is guessing that this phone is my new one and that I'd probably like it to have the same name on it. The workaround is to check the name of the phone before continuing, and then rename it back. this can be done in iTunes to save doing it on the device.

The syncing that's going on is the device syncing to iTunes, rather than the other way around.

The support person suggested that if I don't like the way it works then I should submit some feedback. I'll do that.

I'm not utterly convinced that all the above is true, but unless someone can tell me that they've managed to prevent iTunes doing this, or that it's really doing something else, I'll have to go with it.

I've now realised that what's happening is that if the phone still has the default name of "iphone", it renames it. If it has a different name then it leaves it alone.