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moment, just drag your finger across the “slide to cancel” slider on the screen.
The sync pauses. When you reconnect the phone to the cable, the sync intelligently
resumes.
In fact, if someone dares to call you while you’re in mid-sync, the iPhone cancels
the session itself so you can pick up the call. Just reconnect it to the computer
when you’re done chatting so it can finish syncing.
Now, ordinarily, the iPhone-iTunes relationship is automatic and complete. An
automatic sync takes care of all of these details:
• Contacts, calendars, and Web bookmarks. These data types get
copied in both directions. That is, after a sync, your computer and phone
contain exactly the same information.
So if you entered an appointment on the iPhone, it gets copied to your
computer—and vice versa. If you edited the same contact or appointment
on both machines at once while they were apart, your computer
now displays the two conflicting records, and asks you which one “wins.”
• Music and apps bought from the App Store in iTunes, videos,
ringtones, photos from your computer, and email account information.
All of this gets copied only in one direction: computerÆphone.
• Photos takes with the iPhone’s camera, music from the Wi-Fi
iTunes Store (on the phone), and programs from the App Store
(downloaded to the iPhone). All of this gets copied the other way:
phoneÆcomputer.
A complete backup.
• In the iPhone 2.0 world, iTunes also takes it upon
itself to back up everything else on your iPhone: settings, text messages,
call history, and so on. That’s why syncing takes so much longer than it
did before the 2.0 update. (Details on this backup business on page 269.)
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