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Title: Why iTunes says your iOS 12 device isn’t recognized
Post by: HCK on February 09, 2019, 04:05:12 pm
Why iTunes says your iOS 12 device isn’t recognized

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<p>You're not required to use an iPhone with iTunes in macOS and Windows, but plenty of people still plug in to a computer via USB and rely on Apple’s music-management software to handle syncing, updates, and backups.</p><p>But what to do if you plug in and you see a message that says, “iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. You do not have permission.”</p><p>You’d think very reasonably that this would have something to do with whether your iPhone was unlocked in just the right way. Apple added a feature in iOS 11.4 to deter USB-based hacking of iPhones. The USB Restricted Mode feature (https://www.macworld.com/article/3280108/security/apple-and-google-harden-its-smartphones-against-hackers-and-governments.html) prevents access to an iPhone’s data if it’s enabled and it’s been more than an hour since the last time the phone was unlocked.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3337498/iphone-ipad/why-itunes-says-your-ios-12-device-isnt-recognized.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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