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Apple Users

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1. Big Sur works for me ...

Reply to Lulu KC (Original post)

Tue Nov 17, 2020, 02:55 PM

Nov 2020

Does the iPhone show up (in a finder window) if you attach with a USB/lightning cable? That's the easiest way for them to find each other. Though I do think the iPhone needs to be unlocked for the Mac to see it.

If the phone is unlocked and doesn't appear in a finder when attached with a cable, then the first thing I'd suspect is a bad cable and/or dirt in the ports on the iPhone or the Mac.

Only after it works over a cable, try to get it to sync over WiFi. It seems you do need to sync at least once over a cable before WiFi will work, see:
https://mashtips.com/backup-iphone-over-wifi-to-mac/

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