Hi Ben, Your automatic download preferences can be set separately on your iPhone and on your computer. This is not the same as "syncing", and your iTunes preferences may not be set up to automatically download your new music purchases. On your iOS device, these options are specified in "Settings" under "iTunes & App Stores". Navigate to the "Automatic Downloads" heading and you'll find separate switches for "Music", "Apps", and "Books". Setting any of these switches to "on" means that new purchases in that category made from any of your iOS devices or iTunes on your computer, will automatically download to the iOS device you are modifying settings for. You might not want all new purchases to automatically download to every deviceif you buy lots of music that you store on your computer, but have more limited space on your iPhone, or if you are a low vision reader with an iPad and an iPhone, who prefers to always read books on the iPad. There is also a switch to permit your device to use cellular data for Automatic downloads and iTunes Match.
In iTunes on your Mac, you can similarly set your Automatic download preferences for Music, Apps, and Books. Press Command+comma to bring up your preferences menu, and navigate to the "Store" preferences pane. The easy way to do this is by pressing Command+4 to use the keyboard shortcut for this pane. Then, under Automatic downloads, make sure the box for "Apps" is checked. You'll have to be logged into your current iTunes account. The description under "Automatic Downloads" on the "Store" pane of your preferences window will say something like: "iTunes can automatically download purchases made on other devices using <your Apple ID>. To change to a different account, sign in to the iTunes Store.". Then there will be checkboxes for "Music", "Apps", and "Books". I just press "return" (aka "Enter" to store my changes and close the preferences window, but you can also navigate to the "OK" button and press it. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 18, 7:51 pm, Ben J Bloomgren <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having a very strange issue with syncing my iPhone through iTunes on the > Mac. When app updates come, if I download them directly from the app store on > my iPhone, they do not sync automatically to my Mac. I have to sync the > iPhone manually from the Mac. However, if I download the updates from the Mac > iTunes App Store, the app updates come immediately to my phone as soon as I > sync. Why do they not sync automatically to the max if I download them > directly to my device? > > Ben J. Bloomgren, > Customer Service Representative, > CLG Productions,http://www.clgproductions.com, > [email protected] > Toll-free:1-888-405-3185 > Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:00 to 5:00 PM EST except for holidays. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
