Hi Max, First, after connecting your phone to the mac, make sure itunes is open. If it did not come up when you connected your phone, then there's a setting inside itunes that you can always switch to on, so that itunes automatically starts when you hook up your iphone. Once itunes is open, your phone will indeed show up, but you will have to know where it is. It's down the source table, but maybe it's inside a collapsed section.
Find the source list and interact, then go down to devices. If that's collapsed, expand it, using vo backslash. If it's already expanded, move down once more and you will likely find your iphone there. Tip: When you change from item to item in your itunes source list, you are in fact choosing a category of things you want to see, and what you select in the source list, then appears in the itunes main screen, which is over to the right of the source list. In this case, once you choose your iphone in the source list, its general overview shows up. Stop interacting with the source list and move right. Knowing there's your iphone overview below this, you will find about 10 different tab buttons here. This is probably what you were looking for. The left most tab is summary, which displays the info that is now on the screen. Just go through it and change what you want. By hitting one of the other tab buttons, you get into its related settings and they all relate to your phone, like if you want to sync apps or not, pictures etc. There's a lot to learn and find in those tabs. Next, to sync your iphone, s y n c, you can go into the itunes file menu, and then down to sync Max's iphone. If you only see sync ipod, then itunes doesn't see your phone and you will have to investigate further on what is causing this. Finally, to backup your phone, you must control click your iphone and choose backup. There's a difference between backing up your phone and synching it. Backing up, and I hope I have this right, involves backing up the contents of your phone, including apps and your current version of ios, but excluding the items you bought from itunes. You can synch your itunes library from your mac to your phone using the itunes file menu and then sync iphone. Keeping an eye on what is happening during the sync is easy. There's an lcd section on the itunes screen and if you interact with that, you can see itunes' current activity. Itunes by default dings when it's done synching. If you want to backup your phone, put the voiceover cursor on your iphone inside the itunes source list. Once it's there, a sighted user would hold down control, and then click the trackpad, which will bring up a context menu for your phone, where you can choose to have it backed up to itunes. For us, there's a subtile difference in handling that. Once we have our cursor on the name of our iphone, we need to ask voiceover to bring the mouse pointer over to the spot where the voiceover cursor is, in preparation to our control click. You take the mouse to your voiceover cursur, with command vo f5. Voiceover will announce what the mouse has landed on, once you hit this keystroke. Now, hold down the control key, and press down and release, on the bottom left corner of your trackpad. This will call up the context menu which again is normal, and voiceover friendly. VO down, until you find backup iphone, and vo space on it. The backup starts, and you can monitor its progress using the lcd section. If you synch regularly, then every once in a while, a complete backup is performed, so manual backups are only needed when you want to be sure your iphone's contents is identical to your itunes library. To check which backups of your iphone were made when, go into the devices tab of itunes preferences, and look there. Hth, Paul. On Sep 8, 2012, at 12:51 AM, agent086b <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to sync my iPhone to my new Mac. I have connected the phone to > the Mac and clicked sinc. When I look there is no apps in iTunes.What am I > missing. > How do I tell the phone to back up the apps? > Thanks as always for any help. > Max. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
