Pairing your Apple Watch with a new iPhone is pretty straightforward when you follow these steps. By unpairing from your old device and restoring from a backup, you ensure that all your important data ...

To sync your contacts from an iPhone to a Mac, sign into the same iCloud account on both devices. Then in the account settings on both devices, toggle on Contacts. The contacts from both devices will ...

Syncing your messages between an iOS device and a Mac should usually be a seamless experience, requiring very little input from you personally. But we’ve all had those moments when our devices do a ...

A colleague, Ryan Kaplan, sent me the following Entourage > iPhone syncing tip. Anyone else experienced this problem? I was having a heck of a time syncing my iPhone with Microsoft Entourage. Every ...

Third-party apps like Strava or MyFitnessSync can get your data from your watch to your Fitbit account. You'll need to create an account with the third-party app and sign in to your Fitbit account to ...

You won't get wireless syncing from OS 4, but one developer has a Wi-Fi sync app ready to roll. The question is, will Apple approve it? Rick Broida Senior Editor Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

As soon as your collection of Apple devices running OS X or iOS expands to two or more, the issue of syncing is bound to come up. You’ll want most or all of the important personal data on your first ...

Apple's Reminders app is great, but I've always wanted to add its entries to my iPhone's Calendar app, too. I am at my most productive when I have a to-do list with deadlines clearly listed, but I ...

Echoing some of the guidance in our special report on troubleshooting iPhone sync problems, Apple recommends that isolating problematic contacts can resolve an issue where: "When attempting to sync, ...

Apple Music is one of the best music streaming options when you have a local library of unreleased songs, live concerts, or remixes. But this method will also allow you to sync hi-fiedlity music such ...

It's easy to sync Mac content to an iPhone or iPad once you understand the process. While using AirDrop to transfer files to an iPhone and iPad from a Mac computer works and is quite familiar, ...