Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Spurious "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone because it is locked with a passcode" Error

I just updated iTunes to 8.2, and got this error when connecting my phone for the first time:
"iTunes could not connect to the iPhone 'XXXX' because it is locked with a passcode"
with XXXX being the name of my phone. It was easily fixed by waking up the phone first and then connecting, but it's clearly a bug since my phone was not locked at all. This may happen because iTunes can't tell the difference between a phone that is scheduled to lock after some period of time, but currently is just in idle mode and a phone that's actually locked.

Anyway, don't freak out if you see this message. Just re-connect after going to the home screen on your phone.