Syincing Your iPhone

6:29 am in iPhone Software by Gary Pool

Syncing iPhone with Your Computer

Connecting your iPhone touch to your computer, items are automatically synced according to the preferences you have set in iTunes. You can enter phone numbers and addresses of friends and family members on your computer, connect iPhone to sync, then unplug iPhone and just tap a friend’s name on the touchscreen to call.

With your iPhone you can sync

  • Contacts (names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses…)
  • Calendars (appointments and events)
  • Bookmarks (Browser)
  • Music and Podcasts (iTunes)
  • Photos (iPhoto)
  • Movies and TV shows (iTunes)
  • Applications

All you have to do is set which items are synced in iTunes on your computer once. After that, when you connect iPhone it will start a sync.

Contacts, calendars, and bookmarks are synced from (or to) your computer, so if you add, change, or delete them on iPhone they are changed on your computer, and vice versa. Your iPhone also sync contacts with your Yahoo! or Google Address Books.

Email account settings, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos are synced one-way, from your computer to iPhone (though you can import photos taken with iPhone to your computer).

You can also set your iPhone to sync with only a portion of what’s on your computer. You might want to sync only a group of contacts from your address book, or you may want to sync only songs from certain playlists so you don’t fill up iPhone with all your music.

How to Set Up Syncing

If you use iTunes on your computer to set up which items are synced. Make sure you have the most recent version of iTunes (On a PC, open iTunes and choose Help > Check for Updates. On a Mac, open iTunes and choose iTunes > Check for Updates.

1. Connect iPhone

  1. Connect iPhone to your computer using the cable included. You can connect the cable from your computer directly to iPhone or connect the cable from your computer to the Apple Universal Dock (available separately) and put iPhone in the dock. By default, iTunes opens automatically.
  2. Select iPhone in iTunes under Devices on the left hand side and click the Info tab.

2. Select Which Items Are Synced

Click the respective tabs in iTunes to specify which media and information you want synced from your computer to iPhone.

3. Sync Your iPhone

Click Apply in the lower-right corner of the screen. Your computer syncs with iPhone according to your settings.

The first time you sync iPhone or iPod touch, you are asked if you want to merge data, replace data on the service, or replace the data on your computer. After that, anytime you connect iPhone to your computer, iTunes opens and syncs with iPhone according to your settings.

The settings can be adjusted anytime your iPhone is connected to your computer. You can only connect and sync with one iPhone at the same time.

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