Apple Mobile Device Driver not In Device Manager

Anonymous
2014-01-19T22:56:26+00:00

So I tried Everything , and my apple mobile device driver (or any apple driver) isn't showing up under my device manager. I'ts under my services but not under my device manager. This is causing neither of my iphones to sync with the computer. Please tell me if there is anyway to manually install the driver, since I followed apple's support for if it was missing, and it didn't work. My iphone(s) are not even being recognized as a camera or in recovery mode. I also re installed like 80 times(following apples way of completely re installing it) and the driver is still not in the device manager. It's not my usb either since I have 3 usb's and neither of my iphone's will still not appear as a device in the device manager.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-08T19:06:16+00:00

    Please try this, as I also faced the same problem and this fixed. Don't go to device manager directly.

    For windows 7/8/10:

    1. open devices and printers.
    2. Right mouse click Ipad (or iphone) icon and select properties.
    3. Select properties on the hardware tab.
    4. Select change settings.
    5. Select driver tab and click on update driver.
    6. Select browse my computer.
    7. Click browse button and find C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support folder.
    8. Click next and it'll install the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver.

    After this, it should show up in itunes.  Unfortunately, I have to do this every time I want to sync to itunes.  Hopefully, this save someone else my grief.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-08T19:04:00+00:00

    This really Helped. I suggest all to try this option instead of going directly to device manager and USB controller where the Apple mobile device driver will not displayed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-06T11:42:22+00:00

    On my desktop and my laptop - both with Windows 10's latest updates and ITunes 12.x - this problem has come back with a vengeance and may not be fully resolvable.  It appears that Windows no longer allows Apple's USB drivers to install over their 2006 (!) MTP USB device driver.  You can no longer select the actual driver for the IPhone 6 at all.  Reinstalling Apple's software only works as a temporary solution.  Windows will eventually replace the driver with their 2006 driver.  If anybody has found a way around this, please post it. 

    I realize that there is little incentive for either company to resolve this as Apple wants people to buy their new product and Microsoft does not want people to buy anything from Apple. 

    I have this problem on 2 systems so I am pretty sure its not system or account specific.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-08-16T17:45:19+00:00

    "3.  In the Start Search field type."

    what does this statement mean?????????

    Right here, as with so many other support forum comments, the grammar and/or syntax is so poor.....the statement describing a solution is virtually of no value.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-10T19:47:31+00:00

    yup, this worked for me too.  Strange....all the ipad drivers showed as installed too.  Windows 10 recognized the ipad and everything but until I did those steps it didn't show the "trust computer" dialog on the ipad and iTunes didn't show it.

    This is it folks.

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