How NOT to Update an iPhone

November 5th, 2011 | Tags: , ,

I have found a number of ways of how not to update an iPhone to iOS 5, yet I still haven’t figure out the proper way. I would like to update my wife’s iPhone, but i get this happy warning message:

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And deleting everything off the iPhone (especially since it is not backed up) is NOT what I want to do. So maybe i should establish a syncing relationship with the computer.

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Except that also wants to obliterate the iPhone. So how do I tell iTunes to sync itself to what is on the phone (without deleting anything)? I have no idea.

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  1. Alan Wild
    November 6th, 2011 at 13:03
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    When I saw this post, I vaguely recalled a Lifehacker article that spoke to this. No idea if you tried these things, but it’s probably worth a glance. Sorry, took me a little bit to find it again.