Michael Williams

This computer has been previously synced with an iphone or another IOS device

I’m using iOS 5 beta 5 on my iPhone and I encountered an issue where whenever I plugged my iPhone into iTunes I was prompted to either setup my iPhone as a new device or restore it.

I was still able to do wireless backups so this wasn’t a problem. I did restore of my latest backup. The problem was, even after the restore it still kept brining up the same screen saying “This computer has been previously synced with an iphone or another IOS device.”

Long story short here is how I corrected:

• Plug your phone into iTunes
• Click setup as a new device
• Immediately unplug your phone from the computer
• Give it about 30 seconds and iTunes will give a message (I don’t remember the specific, but regarding you unplugging the device and it not completing)
• Plug your phone back in
• Viola! no restore occurred and you can access everything again