iTunes WiFi sync stopped working

Vertigo · 24 Mar 2012 at 07:42

For some reason my WiFi sync has just stopped working recently.

It used to work for my iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - it was a bit shaky at times but, by and large, it worked fine.

Now though, none of these devices show up at all in iTunes. WiFi sync is still enabled at both ends, there are no firewalls in place and nothing has changed configuration-wise. It's like they can't see iTunes running at all.

Anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong or what to check?

shine · 24 Mar 2012 at 12:34

It happens sometimes - plug it in - sync. Restart your computer and then WiFi sync will start working again.

Vertigo · 24 Mar 2012 at 13:14

Well I've been using normal USB sync on all the devices for a while and the machine is rebooted regularly and yet still nothing via WiFi. It's bizarre.

Vertigo · 22 Jul 2012 at 12:24

Never did sort this out. It suddenly started working at one point but that lasted about a day and hasn't worked since.

When it worked, all three of my devices showed up in iTunes, now it's back to showing none of them, despite them all being enabled for WiFi sync and on the same network as the PC running iTunes. I've even done a total reinstall of Windows and iTunes since but still no joy.

Totally bizarre - anyone got any more ideas?