Transfer Apps from iPhone or iPod Touch to iTunes

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If you have some items purchased in your iPhone or iPod Touch, and you want to transfer these items from iPhone or iPod Touch to iTunes. You can transfer these items to any iTunes/computer that is authorized by iTunes Store user name and password.

This guide will work on both Windows and Mac and iTunes 9 is used, So lets see how to transfer iPhone or iPod purchased items to iTunes/computer.

First you need to authorize the computer to tranfer purchased apps from iPhone or iPod Touch.

Step-1

Run iTunes and Click on Store menu and then Authorize Computer

Step-2

This will prompt for the account information, enter the user name and password to authorize the computer.

Thsi will start Access iTunes Store… wait for a while.

If computer is already authorized, you will get this message, Click OK button.

Step-3

Now connect you iPhone or iPod Touch to computer and Click on File menu then Transfer Purchases from iPhone.
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Simply Control+Click (Mac) or Right click (Widnows) on iPhone or iPod Touch device icon and select Transfer Purchases.

This will start transferring purchased as well as free items from iPhone or iPod Touch to your Computer.

All purchased and free items from your iPhone or iPod Touch transfered to your iTunes/Computer, lets see where iTunes saves the apps.

On the left side Click on Applications menu under Libarary section and then Control+Click on application > Show in Finder (Mac) or Right Click on application > Show in Windows Explorer (Windows). This will open the folder where iTunes saves the apps.

Using this guide you can transfer your apps to a new computer, from one computer to another, to iTunes, to iPod Touch, from PC to Mac and more…

Feel free to ask question about transferring your iPhone or iPod Touch data to Computer, if you have successfully transferred your data leave some comments below.

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Posted in: iPhone on February 8, 2010

Tags: Apps from PC to Mac, Apps to iPod Touch, Apps to iTunes, Apps to New Computer, iTunes, iTunes Store, Transfer iPhone Apps, Transfer iPhone/iPod Touch Purchases, Transfer iPod Touch Apps

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Jack 15 February 2010 at 12:07 pm #

Thanks trickyguy you are awesome, finally i have saved my iPhone application in computer that purchases from app store.

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CuteDragon 15 February 2010 at 2:37 pm #

Its not transferring my all purchases from iphone

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- trickYguY 16 February 2010 at 6:46 am #
  
  Make sure you are using the same login info. that you have used during purchasing application.
  
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Timy 28 February 2010 at 6:10 am #

Nice iTunes tips.

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johnny 6 March 2010 at 7:44 pm #

all well and good, but how do you transfer the apps from itunes to ipod?

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