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If you’re in a hurry, you can skip the time-consuming backup portion of the sync.
Just click the ˛ at the top of the iTunes window whenever it says “Backing up.”
iTunes gets the message, and skips right ahead to the next phase of the sync—
transferring contacts, calendars, music, and so on.
Manual Syncing
OK, but what if you don’t want iTunes to fire up and start syncing every time
you connect your iPhone? What if, for example, you want to change the
assortment of music and video that’s about to get copied to it? Or what if you
just don’t like matters being taken out of your hands, because it reminds you
too much of robot overlords?
In that case, you can stop the autosyncing in four different ways:
• Interrupt a sync in progress. Click the ˛ button in the iTunes status
window until the syncing stops.
• Stop iTunes from syncing the iPhone just this time. As you plug in
the iPhone’s cable, hold down the Shift+Control keys (Windows) or the
c-Option keys (Mac) until the iPhone pops up in the iTunes window.
Now you can see what’s on the iPhone and change what will be synced
to it—but no syncing takes place until you command it.
• Stop iTunes from automatically syncing from now on. Connect the
two, click the iPhone icon, and then click the Summary tab; there, turn off
Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected, and then click Apply.
iTunes will no longer open automatically when you connect the phone,
and therefore it won’t sync.
• Stop iTunes from autosyncing any iPhone, ever. In iTunes, choose
EditÆPreferences (Windows) or iTunesÆPreferences (Mac). Click the
Syncing tab and turn on Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones. (This
setting overrides the Automatically sync setting described above.)
Once you’ve made iTunes stop syncing automatically, you’ve disabled what
many people consider the greatest feature of the iPhone: its magical selfupdating
with the stuff on your computer.
Still, you must have turned off autosyncing for a reason. And one of those
reasons might be that you want to control what gets copied onto it. Maybe
you’re in a hurry to leave for the airport, and you don’t have time to sit there
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