Syncing your iPhone: How to do it with iTunes

Syncing aligns the contents of two devices so that they are available to you on both devices afterwards. So you can sync your iPhone with iTunes to back up content or vice versa to copy content from iTunes to iPhone.

Thanks to iTunes, you can easily sync your iPhone.

Thank iTunes: Sync iPhone made easy

With the following steps you can sync your iPhone:

1. Start iTunes (the program should always be up to date).
2. Connect your iPhone to the computer via USB cable.
3. Then click on the device icon that appears in iTunes.
4. In the left panel of iTunes, you can see all the content types that you can sync under "Settings". Click the content type you want to sync, for example "Apps", "Music" or "Movies", and then click the box next to "Sync".
5. In the same way, you can prepare all the content types you want to sync.
6. Then click "Apply" in the bottom right corner.

The process will now start and will be completed after some time. Note that synchronization via iTunes may be disabled if you are still using another service such as iCloud.

Synchronize iPhone via WLAN

Once you have set up synchronization with iTunes via USB connection, it is then possible to perform synchronization via WLAN as well. To do this, navigate with an existing USB connection in iTunes to "Overview" > "Sync with this [device] via WLAN" and click on "Apply".