How to Sync iPad with iTunes on Computer

Apple’s iTunes guides you through the entire setup and backing up process when you connect your iPad to the iTunes. It’s fairly simple but the concept of backup is often confusing if you’re new to iTunes or syncing processes.

One of the major benefits to syncing iPad with iTunes is to ensure that you have recent backup of all of your contacts, music, videos and photos, calendars, email settings, bookmarks, etc.


Here’s a simple how-to in order to help you sync iPad with iTunes and get the backup safely.

In order to make sure you have a safe syncing and backing up without any version problems, we recommend that you download and install the latest version of iTunes.

Now connect the iPad to your PC through the USB cable.
iTunes usually launches automatically but if it doesn’t, open it yourself.
On the side-bar of iTunes, you will find the “Devices” tab and under this you should see your iPad listed. (if the Devices tab seems empty, the list might have collapsed. Click on it once to see if that is the case).
Now, when you click on iPad, a plethora of options come up on the main window. These are basically nothing but stuff like Music, Email, Contacts and so on which you can sync with iTunes and thus, backup.
Select the options you want to sync and finally, once you’re done with the options, click on “Apply” at the bottom-right of the screen.
Wait for the Sync to complete. Once that is done, you’re good to go.
Syncing will make sure the files on your iPad and the iTunes library are up-to-date and in tune with each other. If you added a file to iTunes’s iPad library, once you sync, that gets reflected on your iPad too and vice-versa.

Since syncing is a simple and easy way to manage your data between iPad and the iTunes library, it is recommended that you sync often. Mostly, once-a-week sync is useful and safe. Furthermore, syncing often reduces the time it takes to sync between the device and the system.