General iPhone PC-to-Mac switch question

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copydeskcat

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• Jan 7, 2012

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I have an iPhone 4 running iOS5 (iCloud etc.) using iTunes on my home Windows 7 PC.

I'm about to upgrade to a Mac Mini (it should arrive today or tomorrow), and I'm concerned about the syncing issues with moving to iTunes on the Mac. Should I anticipate problems with this, or is it a case of setting up the phone on the Mac and then restoring from the iCloud backup?

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dickdaney

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• Jan 7, 2012

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You'll have no problems if you follow the guides available on apples website. Moving an iTunes library from a PC to Mac is pretty easy.

 

bandofbrothers

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• Jan 7, 2012

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Mine was easy as I moved from Windows 7 to a MacBook air.

Just follow the prompts as the earlier post states.

 

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copydeskcat

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• Jan 10, 2012

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bandofbrothers said:

Mine was easy as I moved from Windows 7 to a MacBook air.

Just follow the prompts as the earlier post states.

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Thanks guys - I've now migrated my PC files to the Mac Mini, but in iTunes, my iPhone backups aren't showing up.

What will happen if I plug my iPhone in to the Mac? I'm concerned that I'll lose everything...

 

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copydeskcat

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copydeskcat said:

Thanks guys - I've now migrated my PC files to the Mac Mini, but in iTunes, my iPhone backups aren't showing up.

What will happen if I plug my iPhone in to the Mac? I'm concerned that I'll lose everything...

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All sorted guys. Plugged in the phone, transferred my purchases from Phone to Mac, backed up phone - bingo.