How to eject iPhone from iTunes

Do you want to disconnect your iPhone from iTunes without physically disconnecting the phone from your computer, so that its battery continues to charge? Do you want to know how to safely disconnect   the ” iPhone ” from the PC without risking to compromise the data saved on it?

Well, with iPhone it is not necessary to perform a secure disconnection as it is done for USB sticks, but this does not mean that you can disconnect the phone from the PC in the middle of a synchronization with iTunes.

In short, it depends on the cases. So what do you say if I now propose a small guide in which there is written in detail how to eject iPhone from iTunes based on the situation? In this way, you can best manage your ” iPhone ” and you will avoid disconnecting it from Windows or Mac OS X in an inappropriate manner causing any problems related to the transfer of data. Let’s start now.

If you want to find out how to eject iPhone from iTunes without physically unplugging the phone from your computer, all you have to do is select the iPhone entry located at the top right and click on the Eject button (the black arrow going up) placed next to a device name, at the top left of the screen that opens. In this way, you can make the smartphone invisible for iTunes while still keeping the phone charging in the USB port of the computer.

If you have connected multiple Apple devices to the computer at the same time, the iPhone entry to be initially clicked in iTunes will turn into Devices, so you must first click on Devices and then on iPhone and not directly on iPhone to access the device management page.

When you connected your ” iPhone by ” to your computer, did you open iTunes and the synchronization of the phone started automatically? If you want to stop this procedure, know that you do not need to eject iPhone from iTunes. Unplugging the smartphone from the PC while data synchronization is in progress could lead to some minor problem (eg the lack of transferring some information, nothing serious) avoidable by stopping the synchronization in a correct manner.

To stop the synchronization of iPhone with iTunes, all you have to do is open the program, select the item iPhone / Devices located at the top right and press the cross (x) that is next to the virtual display of the application.

If you want to completely disassociate your iPhone from iTunes because you have to sell it, you need to access the iTunes Store, go to the device management section and click on the Remove item next to the name of your ” iPhone “.