{"id":195,"date":"2012-05-02T15:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:06:55","slug":"how-to-stop-itunes-auto-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/how-to-stop-itunes-auto-syncing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop iTunes auto syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each time you plug in your iOS devices such as iPhone, iPod or iPad to computer. iTunes will automatically launch and sync with your iOS devices. This is very annoyed\u00a0when your iDevices have different content with your iTunes library. Fox example, you upload songs or movies from your friends\u2019 iTunes to your iPod, once you connect the iPod with your own computer, iTunes will auto sync your iPod and delete the songs that you got from your friends\u2019 iTunes. And this step by step guide will show you how to stop iTunes auto syncing. You don\u2019t have to connect your iDevices to the computer to make this change work.<\/p>\n

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    1. \u00a0Launch iTunes and click Preferences<\/strong> on the iTunes menu<\/li>\n
    2. Click on the Devices<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n
    3. Check the box next to Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically\n

      <\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

      Click OK<\/strong> to exit out of Preferences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      Fore more tips about iTunes, here is a step by step guide will show you how to copy songs from iPod\/iPhone\/iPad to iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Each time you plug in your iOS devices such as iPhone, iPod or iPad to computer. iTunes will automatically launch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}