iTunes - does anyone else find it a buggy pile of poo?

spudbynight · 12 May 2011 at 15:37

I have just sold my iPhone4

I am currently trying to work with iTunes to reset it to factory settings.

Unfortunately iTunes keeps falling over on my PC. Unlike other phones there doesn't seem to be a way to reset to factory settings on the iPhone.

Am I missing something or is this just more apple fail?

Deleted member 77746 · 12 May 2011 at 15:41

spudbynight said:
I have just sold my iPhone4

I am currently trying to work with iTunes to reset it to factory settings.

Unfortunately iTunes keeps falling over on my PC. Unlike other phones there doesn't seem to be a way to reset to factory settings on the iPhone.

Am I missing something or is this just more apple fail?

Your missing something.

Settings > General > Reset.

You noob.

Liquiduk · 12 May 2011 at 15:43

iDroid84 said:
Your missing something.

Settings > General > Reset.

You noob.

+1 xD.

Haven't had a single complaint with Itunes since 2008.

spudbynight · 12 May 2011 at 15:52

iDroid84 said:
Your missing something.

Settings > General > Reset.

You noob.

iTunes still keeps falling over though

Deleted member 77746 · 12 May 2011 at 15:57

spudbynight said:
iTunes still keeps falling over though

You don't need iTunes to reset the phone.

Please pick itunes backup from the floor, it doesn't like lying down.

gjrc · 12 May 2011 at 16:26

never had any complaints with itunes either since i started using it years ago....

theheyes · 12 May 2011 at 16:40

iTunes is by FAR the buggiest piece of software on my PC but it's just bearable enough to keep using. At what point is it "falling over"?

joey1211 · 12 May 2011 at 16:52

Seeing as installs a plethora of other unnecessary rubbish with it, it will never find it's way back onto any of my computers

nahwiseup · 12 May 2011 at 17:25

spudbynight said:
I have just sold my iPhone4

I am currently trying to work with iTunes to reset it to factory settings.

Unfortunately iTunes keeps falling over on my PC. Unlike other phones there doesn't seem to be a way to reset to factory settings on the iPhone.

Am I missing something or is this just more apple fail?

I have not had iTunes ever fall over on me - been using versions of it since 2008, but on a Mac. I have no experience of the windows version.

Saying that, I think it is one of the least friendly versions of Apple software expanded too far beyond its original design.

YMMV of course.

churchhawk · 12 May 2011 at 19:47

Yep Itunes is a nightmare, i hate it i really do.

J1234 · 12 May 2011 at 19:48

It's terrible on Windows. Love it on OS X though, wouldn't use anything else.

mark66 · 12 May 2011 at 19:53

Naffs me off that if I plug my iPhone into the Mac when my wife is currently logged in that it starts synching over her stuff! Maybe I have missed a setting, surely it should have the sense to say 'This isn't your usual device, do you really want to synch?'

Somnambulist · 12 May 2011 at 20:29

Justin said:
It's terrible on Windows. Love it on OS X though, wouldn't use anything else.

Brian8bit · 12 May 2011 at 21:04

Justin said:
It's terrible on Windows. Love it on OS X though, wouldn't use anything else.

Somnambulist said:
It's terrible on Windows. Love it on OS X though, wouldn't use anything else.

+1 no complaints with it on OSX. That said on Windows I mainly used xmPlay because of it's tracker file format support.

AbsenceJam · 12 May 2011 at 21:09

joey1211 said:
Seeing as installs a plethora of other unnecessary rubbish with it, it will never find it's way back onto any of my computers

Nothing it installs has any affect on anything whatsoever.

mark66 said:
Naffs me off that if I plug my iPhone into the Mac when my wife is currently logged in that it starts synching over her stuff! Maybe I have missed a setting, surely it should have the sense to say 'This isn't your usual device, do you really want to synch?'

There is a setting to prevent auto syncing.

Dewotter · 12 May 2011 at 21:24

The setting is 'Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected' You will want to untick that.

mark66 · 12 May 2011 at 21:29

RKO said:
The setting is 'Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected' You will want to untick that.

Excellent, thanks for that

theheyes · 12 May 2011 at 22:30

AbsenceJam said:
Nothing it installs has any affect on anything whatsoever.

Bonjour starts as a service, opens up a port on your firewall and sits there listening - and there have been a couple of vulnerabilities in the past. I've also seen it take out Internet connections by messing around with your NIC settings and not putting them back to how they were.

steveo · 12 May 2011 at 22:40

itunes has been solid for me for years, even when i was on a pc before i switched to mac it was easy and simple to use with no problems or glitches

Andybtsn · 12 May 2011 at 22:43

Never had any issues with it on Windows ever since I started using it three/four years ago.