Continuing on with the complaints about the long backup process every time you sync your iPhone, here is yet another little trick that should help to cut that time down a bit, and thankfully this suggestion will not involve turning off the backup process.
Thanks to a nice forum posting over on the HowardForums, you can now cut that sync time down and still be prepared should something unfortunate happen to your iPhone that forces you to have it replaced.
The process is simple and it involves turning off the ability to send diagnostic data to Apple.
With just a few easy steps you should be left with sync times that are much more manageable, of course this will not help if you add a bunch of new media or the first sync after you add some new apps, however regular or routine syncing should be much more pleasant.
After connecting your iPhone to your computer;
- 1. Uncheck the check mark from the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” option in iTunes.
- 2. Unplug your iPhone and then plug it back in
- 3. Once iTunes launches again, right click on its name in the devices menu (on the left) and from menu choose “Reset Warnings”
- 4. Then click Sync in the bottom right hand corner
- 5. You will then receive a pop-up (see image below). Simply uncheck the “Do not ask me again” box
- 6. Now you can go back and re-apply the check to the “Automatically sync” option that you removed in Step #1
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July 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Brilliant tip! That should help a few people.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Sure, but don’t you think that providing Apple with diagnostic feedback enabled them to pinpoint bugs to address in the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware update?
August 9th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Steps did not work with iPhone Firmware 2.0.1 and iTunes 7.7.1.11
Any other way to apply it?
September 17th, 2008 at 3:54 am
wow
this tipp is more than brilliant. My backup time is now down to 10 seconds. Fabulous work, Cheers
June 17th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Took forever still
April 12th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Excellent post.
I run an iPhone 3.1.2 jailbroken latest iTunes software as of this date. Yesterday it took me all night with iPhone on itunes (haven"t synced since jailbreak) and it was still backing up. After following above steps backup completed within 10mins.
Thanks
April 21st, 2010 at 12:29 am
mine 3.13 unjailbroken, doesn't seems to have any improvement at all
July 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
its not working for me
November 30th, 2010 at 7:49 am
brilliant tips…..but I suggest Apple get their $hit together because not everyone is a geek.