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How to Sync your iPhone to a New computer without deleting your iPhone Apps

September 1, 2010 · 49 comments

in iPhone,iPhone Apps,Tutorials

I have been asked a few times by friends how to sync their iPhones to another (or a new) computer without having iTunes delete the apps they already have on the iPhone. Well, the answer is quite simple really.

Connect your iPhone to the new computer

SInce you are connecting your iPhone to the computer for the first time, iTunes will ask you to authorize the computer. You are only allowed to authorize your iPhone to 5 different computers. Here’s what happens when I connect my iPhone to a PC for the first time and launch iTunes:

iTunes computer authorization

So all you have to do is go to the iTunes menu, click on Store and then Authorize Computer.

Now (using iTunes on a Mac as an example), right-click on the iPhone on the left pane of iTunes and click on Transfer Purchases.

Transfer Purchases

Your iPhone apps will now be copied over to the iTunes library.

Copy apps to iTunes

You’re now done!

If you wish, you can then sync your iPhone Contacts, Calendars, Mail Accounts, Bookmarks and Notes to the new computer. Select your device in iTunes and click on the Info tab. Select the appropriate checkboxes you wish to sync (Contacts, Mail, etc.).

If your computer is new, make sure you DO NOT replace the information on your iPhone by unselecting the checkboxes in the Advanced box.

Sync Info

Click on Sync.

I hope this helps!


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  • Tony

    Thanks, just found this, exactly what I was looking for. Works a treat.

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  • noodenmichel

    Thanks for your sharing.It is useful.

  • Ruslana2003

    but what to do If all contacts were deleted when i connected to the new computer, how to recover it???

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    This is such a great piece of information. Thanks for this men!

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  • http://twitter.com/wanderingjasmin Wandering Jasmine

    i always love how we can snyc iphone to a new computer or any computer for that matter :)

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  • http://twitter.com/3ABDOON Abdullah Ashour

    I have tried this but didn’t work.
    My ipod touch is jailbroken 4.1 and I have tried to transfer purchases but it deletes most of them.

  • Win

    The best way is to use an iPhone to computer transfer program to copy all the files from iPhone to your new computer first b4 sync.I personally use Cucusoft iPad/iPhone/iPod to Computer Transfer.It helps me to transfer my songs/videos/photos/playlists etc from iPhone to my new computer directly and safely. It works well for me.
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  • Anonymous

    It is easily backup and transfer iPhone files,including transfer iPhone songs;transfer iPhone videos; backup iPhone photos,transfer iPhone SMS;backup iPhone call list, backup iPhone contacts and backup iPhone books(you purchased via iBook Store) to computer. And even enable your iPhone as a removable hard disk.

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  • Anonymous

    Good idea!

  • FED UP WITH ITUNES

    This was super easy. Thank you. Why have Apple made ITunes so NOT user friendly. I have spent hours reading to get my Iphone 4 info transferred to my new laptop. It cost me $20 to get MY OWN music & photos across. Heads up Apple – the public have had enough!!!!!!

  • Dardow40

    No – not all apps will transfer, so I remain in the position of losing some of my apps off my phone…. Sems to be free ones, but nonetheless, not all of them will be tranferred. Is there anything else I need to check?

  • psyrob

    Dude, this was excellent…I wasted two days on my own and then sorting thru other posts elsewhere to find this answer. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you…and I +1 the comment that iTunes is SOOOOO not user friendly

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  • Pamelakt

    PLEASE can someone help me?! I have a new laptop. I have copied my itunes music from my old laptop onto a new external hardrive that I bought. I can get it onto my new laptop – but I can’t then drag it down to my ipod icon because it says it isn’t the original. I have authorised the computer. I just do not know what I am meant to do short of spending hours spinning all my old cd’;s into the new laptop. Its a complete joke how complicated itunes is!!!!

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  • Feliciapy

    hi,itunes only allow to authorize 5 pcs and what happen if i have reformat my pc more than 5 times? Will i be allow to do the following steps?

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    For you to backup iPhone contacts.You can use iTunes. But you can’t edit them after backup,and you can’t make a password to protect your privacy after your transfer iphone contacts to computer or laptop.
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    How to backup the iPhone contact and contact’s photo to computer?

    There is another way for you to backup iPhone contacts and SMS at the same time to computer as . txt or .csv file. With iPhone Contacts Backup. If you backup iPhone contacts to PC as .csv. Then you can opern it with excel and edit it. or restore it to Outlook or restore to new iPhone when necessary.

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  • Pep

    Hi there,

    I have recently just got a new mac, first one of my life. am trying to transfer all the apps from my iphone. i have followed what you’ve showed on the above. First authorized this computer and transfer purchases. But it doesn’t work. can you please help me?!

    Thanks
    Pep

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  • Pep

    Oh thank you very much :)

  • Pep

    i actually tried.. i can copy the backup files to my new mac.. but i don’t see all the apps and data are transfered to the new itune.. :( it’s driving me crazy.!!
    can anyone help please?

  • Pep

    i actually tried.. i can copy the backup files to my new mac.. but i don’t see all the apps and data are transfered to the new itune.. :( it’s driving me crazy.!!
    can anyone help please?

  • Anonymous

    Did you log into your account?I haven’t tried the procedure in the link I posted – my Macbook pro isn’t here yet.But if it doesn’t work, man … I will have quite a bit of work to do. ><

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    Is there a version of this for macs?

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    I just got a new mac and when trying to synchronise my iPhone, I cannot synch my applications, the format is different on the iTunes (I have four fixed app on the bottom, and iTunes on the new computer has only 3). I wouldn´t like to get rid of the four app, but I would like to synch the app in the future and not to have to get back to my old computer

    Note on the old computer I had 10.2.2 (14) and on the new one 10.2.2. (12) but it doesn´t find any updates.

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  • bruce565

    HELP!!!! I followed the above steps exactly and when I tried to transfer my purchases it says ” computer is not authorized” while I did authorize it 10 times!! I even bought something in itunes with my account. what do I do???  

  • bruce565

    Problem solved I put in the wrong account # (I have 2).

  • bruce565

    Problem solved I put in the wrong account # (I have 2).

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    How can i transfer apps that i got from another itunes account to my personal itunes in my computer? hope u ca help me.. tnx.

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    In fact, this iPhone transfer for Mac can help you do that task without losing any apps on iPhone.

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    help! while attempting to hook my iphone up to a new laptop, by following the stupid instructions in itunes, something went wrong and I had to “restore” my iphone. I have lost all my music (and more) from my iphone! How can I get it back? Im pissed!!!

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    THE CUCUSOFT software sucks! it is totally missleading.  For starters it is not free, when it does a trial for you to see how the transfers work it neglects to tell you that it can only be used on jailbroken phones for transfer of contacts! I unfortunatley bought this product to
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