Why is Mac sync to iPhone so damn bad and so damn slow!
I have been syncing my mac to the iphone since the iphone first came out, and the problem is that it has never gotten better. I sync a bunch of live music that isn’t available on streaming, so I sync to my computer Iplus it means my phone is backed up with passwords so if I restore I get my full working phone, which people on iCloud do not, they have to re-enter all passwords), but the actual sync is so awful.
First off unless you turn cellular, wifi and bluetooth off, the sync takes forever, but if you turn it off it is very quick, we are talking muti-hour sync vs 30 minute sync so it is huge. Why can’t apple fix this? Obviously they don’t care at all.
I hate having to do workarounds, but syncing my iphone with my mac via lightning cable means I have to switch my phone to airplane mode and that is fucking bullshit! If Airplane mode fixes the issue, then Apple could easily fix it, and they don’t care, as they do not want you to backup locally or put your own music on your iPhone.
PVC on How to move your Adobe Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts and user settings, most all of them
I didn’t realize that your premiere pro settings were no longer going to sync after Adobe Discontinued Creative Cloud Synced Files. Now I have always had issues with it, because they seem to get fucked up more often than they should, but it is kind of huge that this is going away.
This is going to make Digital Rebellion’s Preference Manager to be back to being a very important part of my workflow, and it should be considered the same for all editors.
WTF Did Apple do to Apple iPhone Sync in Ventura 13.3, and why is no one talking about it?
OK, WTF APPLE! Now I have hated Apple’s sync to iPhone since Apple Music came around and music sync was moved to the finder. Not only is it super clunky and slow as all hell, you can’t force quit the process like you could by quiting iTunes, so I had to turn off automatic wifi sync when device plugged into power because it literally meant I could not restart my computer if something went wrong until sync was done.
And it was just weird to have sync in the finder, since you deal with your music and playlists in Music, why not have sync there? It just seems arbitrary, but it also never worked well.
I could not just sync music to my iPhone or iPad, I have to let the iPhone backup first, because any changes I make in the sync before a first sync finishes, just get completely ignored. And if this is the case, it shouldn’t let you make changes until the sync was completed! WTF!
And now with Mac OS Ventura’s 13.3 Update, things have gotten much weirder. iPad sync remains the same, where if I plug in my iPad, it shows up in the finder (and I have to go through trust issues with my phone and mac which I can’t seem to ever remedy no matter how many times I reset network settings). and it syncs, and there is at least something in the side of the finder showing something is going on.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the iPhone. I thought something was wrong with my iPhone when I tried to sync it after the update as it would not show up in the finder. Eventually I looked in Music and it does show up there.
So I said what the heck and clicked on the phone there and it gave a new window with a new button.
So it looks to be listing all music on my iPhone (quite a bit), but there is a button on the right hand side that says Sync Settings. And when I hit it, a finder window opens up with the previous iPhone Finder window allowing sync, the problem is that it doesn’t show up at all in the sidebar. So who knows where this window is supposed to be.
As you can see it doesn’t show up on the left hand side at all, so it’s initial sync, which takes a while, has absolutely nothing showing progress in the finder, which sync with the iPad shows. To see where it is, you have to go back to Music.
And once that finished you can then watch progress in the finder window on the initial sync it must do before you can sync any music to your iPhone.
So once this initial backup finishes I can make changes to the music on my iPhone, but only in this window, and as you can see my iPad shows up in the Sidebar, but not my iPhone.
I can only think that is this is a mistake. You want Sync to be in one place, not having to go back and forth between Music and the Finder to get a sync going.
And all I can think is that most people are using streaming music and not their own music (they must not have a huge library of Grateful Dead Live music), so they haven’t noticed this abomination that has happened for just the iPhone in Ventura 13.3.
I also posted at Apple’s support community, but I am pretty sure they don’t read their support community, so problematically they might not realize it is a problem. And I have reported it as a bug in Apple Feedback.
Apple should do one more separation of itunes, having Apple Music it’s own app
So Apple broke up iTunes with Catalina, making Music, TV, Podcasts and putting local sync into the finder. I have made no qualms of what a mess I think they have made, but since this is how things are going to be I think they should make more break and remove Apple Music from your local music library, and then put local sync back into “itunes” the app for your local library.
I already can’t use Apple Music to it’s fullest, because I don’t pay extra to sync my local music to the cloud (i put my music on my iPhone or a decent subset) so i can’t save playlists or songs from Apple Music. And yea this is a ripoff as I don’t want to sync my local library, but would love likely playlists on Apple Music to sync between devices. And a separate app would completely solve this problem.
And bringing back “itunes” for just your local music would be great, it would solve all confusion between local and Apple Music , and even better if they put sync back in an app it would solve so many issues. Pre-Catalina I enabled wifi sync, and automatic sync when connected so I always had current backups of my iOs devices, but I had to shut both of these off with Catalina. Moving iOS sync to the find means there is no way to cancel the sync. Previously you could always force quit itunes, but the find reboots if you force quite it and the sync continues. This is a problem when I am running video editing software which has crashed and necessitates a restart, but you can’t because an iOS device synching! And the sync seems so much slower, but maybe that is because there is no progress bar until the actual copying of music takes place, and it is so damn slow!
And maybe, just maybe it would fix the fact that I have to sync twice to sync and local music. If i try and pick anything to sync on the first sync, the apply button becomes greyed out. After the first sync i can then chose music to sync and hit apply and music is synched. This takes a huge amount of tine because I back up locally. I like to have full backups with passwords and the like, plus the restore is faster than icloud. And when i first tried icloud backups, the restore failed on ipad and iphone and I list a year because i went back to my previous local backup.
Now I am sure Apple doesn’t care to do this because they expect us to just use Apple Music, but I use both and hate how local sync has become a second class citizen!
Fix for being unable to sync iOS devices in Catalina’s Finder
So my sync stopped working for iOS devices in the Finder in Mac OS 10.15 Catalina. As soon as I made any change to the sync the apply button was greyed out.
Well I went to my /Library/Preferences/ Folder and removed the com.apple.syncserver.plist and the com.apple.finder.plist file (I am assuming it just one of these) but after removing them the apply button was no longer greyed out and I can sync my iOS devices again. You should then restart the finder.
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Update, so this fix is no longer helping me. I just can’t sync anymore. The sync button is OK until I make any changes, then I cannot sync.
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