{"id":22217,"date":"2012-02-02T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=22217"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:53:20","slug":"how-to-fix-ios-connection-error-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-fix-ios-connection-error-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix iOS connection error in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-fix-ios-connection-error-in-windows-7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22399 alignright\" title=\"iTunes 10\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/iTunesthing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/iTunesthing.png 512w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/iTunesthing-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>Before <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/lets-talk-ios-5-and-not-be-impressed\">iOS 5<\/a>, I had no problems connecting my iPod Touch 3rd Gen or iPad 1 and 2 to my computer. Since <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.en.softonic.com\/\">iTunes<\/a> 10.5, it sometimes didn&#8217;t recognize my pair of iPads sometimes, they did&#8217;t load in Windows 7, or a combination of both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes Wifi sync<\/strong> only gives you 5GB of storage, so isn&#8217;t a good sync solution if you have lots of music or video. I looked through one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/ipad\/assistant\/itunes\/#section_0\">Apple&#8217;s support pages<\/a> and found that this didn&#8217;t solve the problem. The second <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/TS1538\">support page<\/a> solution also led to a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>If you have tried Apple&#8217;s support pages and iTunes still doesn&#8217;t recognize your device, the solution is to <strong>run a registry cleaner like <a href=\"http:\/\/ccleaner.en.softonic.com\/\">CCleaner<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When iTunes is updated, it sometimes creates conflicts in the Windows registry, which you can fix by cleaning it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. Install and open <strong>CCleaner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. Click <strong>Registry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. Scan for Issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. After the scan is finished, click &#8220;Fix Selected Issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Restart the computer, open iTunes, and connect the iOS device via USB.<\/strong> It should now be recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before iOS 5, I had no problems connecting my iPod Touch 3rd Gen or iPad 1 and 2 to my computer. Since iTunes 10.5, it sometimes didn&#8217;t recognize my pair of iPads sometimes, they did&#8217;t load in Windows 7, or a combination of both. iTunes Wifi sync only gives you 5GB of storage, so isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-fix-ios-connection-error-in-windows-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to fix iOS connection error in Windows 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":22218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2569],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-22217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333938,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions\/333938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=22217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}