sync iPhone to 2 macs ?

[djbeta]

Hi there,

I've had a MacBook Pro for a while and had been syncing my iPhone to it, and just got an iMac. I'd like to start syncing to the iMac (as well) so that I can have copies of all my stuff on all 3 devices.

Is this possible? AppleCare tech support says "no" but I don't see why it should be.

(my main reason for this is so that I can download applications or application updates from whichever computer I'm on, and don't have to wait until I'm on a certain computer to administer my iPhone)

thanks in advance for any advice... (I was thinking that to sync the applications to both devices I might have to copy them from my MacBook Pro to the iMac before syncing the iPhone to the iMac.. and I might have to be equally careful to make sure that the iMac has all the media/files that I want it to have before syncing to the iPhone --- lest I do something like wipe out all my iPhone music because there isn't any yet on the iMac.. so I'd first:

1. copy from MacBook pro to iMac all music, photos, apps (contacts, calendar are synced to Outlook so there's no worry here
2. then sync the iPhone to the iMac

sound reasonable ???

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

The iPhone can only ever be sync'ed to one computer at a time. If you choose to sync it with a different computer, the iPhone will be wiped out and all data on the new computer will be sync'ed to it.

You can have multiple iPhones sync'ing to one computer, but not one iPhone sync'ing to multiple computers.

This isn't to say it's impossible -- it's just not as streamlined and convenient:

http://www.google.com/search?q=sync+iphone+multiple+computers

 

[fryke]

You can download applications and application updates from the iPhone directly when it has access to a WiFi network, btw. Also via 3G, as long as the apps are below 10 MB.