Yes you can! Select what you wish to sync to your iPhone as per previous instructions and sync your iPhone. Then Eject your iPhone & disconnect it from your computer Open iTunes > Preferences - Devices and untick 'Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically. iTunes will remember your sync settings for future syncs.
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 28/01/2013, at 3:21 PM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Ok, thanks Ronni. I use a Win7 laptop for my work and my iPhone is > synchronized with that. Instructions applied on same basis though. > > It seems therefore that I can't auto synch my own apps and at the same time > prevent apps my kids have downloaded from auto-synching to my iPhone if I > keep "auto synch" turned on. > > > Regards > > Pete > > On 28/01/2013, at 2:57 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> You can select what apps or any content you wish to sync to your iPhone. >> >> First turn off auto sync in iTunes. >> Launch iTunes on your Mac and go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices>Prevent >> iPods, iPhones and iPads from automatically syncing. >> Click OK and then quit iTunes. >> >> 1. Connect your iPhone to the Mac and launch iTunes. >> 2. Click on the device name on the left side under the devices heading. >> 3. Click on a tab in iTunes - Apps for instance. >> 4. Click on the Apps that you want to sync to that device. >> Make sure that the Sync Apps heading is checked. >> 5. Follow the same procedure for all of the other tabs in iTunes ..... >> Music, Photos, Movies and so on. >> 6. After you have finished making all of your selections, click on Apply in >> the lower right corner of iTunes. >> >> When you are done, eject your iPhone. iTunes will now remember the sync >> configuration on each device. >> >> You can change that configuration any time that you like by following the >> steps outlined above. >> >> If you want to continue to auto sync, turn it back on in the iTunes >> preferences as described above. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> On 28/01/2013, at 2:45 PM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi all. All 5 in my family use the same Apple ID for our respective apps >>> etc and Find my iPhone etc. this is a good thing generally for ease of >>> sharing content etc but with the annoyance of automatically receiving stuff >>> not explicitly requested to MY iTunes instance. >>> >>> My kids download various game apps to their iPods which I have no interest >>> in and I find that my iTunes will subsequently download their apps that >>> they have recently downloaded and it in turn will sync to my iPhone which >>> is attached to my own library. This then clutters my iPhone with jibberish >>> apps. >>> >>> Is there a way of preventing the automatic download of these un-requested >>> apps from downloading to MY iTunes instance whilst still given the freedom >>> to the kids to download their stuff? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Pete >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130128/06f366d7/attachment.htm >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
