Comments on: How to Fix iTunes’ “Set Up Your iPhone” Error

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:33:43 +0000

Thank you so much, I was already panicking when I saw that screen :S

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:46:40 +0000

Oh my goodness, you’re a star for posting this! Have been trying to figure this out for hours with my new iphone 4, and was worried if i clicked set up as new iphone all my data would be deleted! So thank you

By: Bookmarks for September 9th from 19:04 to 19:41 « Mark's life

Bookmarks for September 9th from 19:04 to 19:41 « Mark's life — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:08:59 +0000

[...] [toread] [priv] FettesPS – Since owning my iPhone I’ve had this happen to me a couple of times now, I plug in my iPhone to do a sync and recharge and get a message telling me “An iPhone has been previously synced with this computer” and gives me the options of setting it up as a new phone, or restoring from a previous back up. Neither of these options describe what I want, as I don’t have it back up on every sync I would lose too much data, and I… [...]

By: Audrey H. Bird

Audrey H. Bird — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:05:35 +0000

I am so sorry I “upgraded” to the Iphone 4. It has been a nightmare of problems like this, applications that will not load, dropped Bluetooth connections.
Apple software is attrocious, there is no other word for it and there support is even worse than Microsoft.
Anyone who reads this and gets an Iphone 4 has no one to blame but themselves.

By: XaosLin

XaosLin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:39:56 +0000

Oh,gosh!Fortunately it works.

many thanks : )

By: Sick of itunes Chaz

Sick of itunes Chaz — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:19:46 +0000

iTunes sucks, especially since IOS4. Maybe all the good programmers quit because the software is now buggy and crappy, my phone which worked well with IOS3 has been restored at least twice a week since upgrading.

Why does apply call it sync? It just freaking recopies everything and takes hours!! Steve clearly doesn’t eat his own dog food.

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:50:49 +0000

@kyle – That sucks, from what I’m told it doesn’t remember the songs you’ve downloaded and let you get them again for free like it does with apps. So to others who follow this guide, be careful. If it’s jailbroken try FTPing in and backing up the MP3s first.

By: kyle cassidy

kyle cassidy — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:45:33 +0000

I did this — it deleted all the music I’d bought from the phone itself (gonzeo) and all the apps i’d bought on the phone. Not good Apple, Not Good.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:19:25 +0000

Thank you for posting this info!
I do want to say that while it did work, it did delete all of music/videos. Oh well, at least I can use it again, without updating to 3.1.3!

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:25:27 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this! Apple really needs to reword this screen or, better yet, do something so avoid this problem all together.