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
    2017-03-14T02:26:46+00:00

    Thank you - helped me with Windows 10 too.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-26T21:16:27+00:00

    For some strange reason, my relatively new Dell 8900 (Win 10 Pro) just "lost" the Apple Mobile Device Driver and I cannot sync my IPad/IPhone to ITunes ... using the above steps (for Win 7), it also worked for Win 10 and I did not have to re-do the steps to re-sync my devices to ITunes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-05-22T15:42:42+00:00

    In my case there in no such a file named mobile device support

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-05-22T18:53:41+00:00

    Hi,

    This post was created last 2014 and was already resolved. The troubleshooting steps provided on this thread may no longer be applicable for your device. We suggest that you create a new thread for better assistance from our Community.

    Let us know if you have other queries.

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