Need to setup iPhone on a mac that was setup on a pc

[durkadurka]

My iPhone currently syncs with iTunes on a PC.

I want it to sync with iTunes on a Mac now.

I don't care about losing the music but I don't want to lose anything else on my phone.

What do I need to do to make sure that when I set it up with iTunes on the Mac I don't lose everything else on the phone?

[up10ad]

Unfortunately I can't help with an answer, I need to know as well because my new MBP is coming next week. Hope we get a good answer. I suspect we just tell it to sync with the Mac and it will ask us or tell us that the iPhone has been synced with antoher system, and do we want to replace the iPhone data or keep it.

[geordisjd]

My iPhone currently syncs with iTunes on a PC.

I want it to sync with iTunes on a Mac now.

I don't care about losing the music but I don't want to lose anything else on my phone.

What do I need to do to make sure that when I set it up with iTunes on the Mac I don't lose everything else on the phone?

This has been discussed a few times, so you may want to search. You will not lose any of your contacts, bookmarks, mail and calendar stuff when you first sync. iTunes will ask you if you want to replace the stuff on the iPhone or "merge". Choose MERGE and you'll keep everything (but not music and movies).

[freakydeaky dutch bastard]

I just bought a macbook and had to do the same thing. When I first sync'd on the mac it cleared out my music, pics and custom ringtones. I was only able to sync my contacts. If you could sync your iTunes media to more than one machine you could sync to all of your friends machines, too...and Apple ain't havin' that. You're gonna have to back up any files you want to transfer with a thumb drive or CD/DVD and load them onto the mac.

[geordisjd]

Unfortunately I can't help with an answer, I need to know as well because my new MBP is coming next week. Hope we get a good answer. I suspect we just tell it to sync with the Mac and it will ask us or tell us that the iPhone has been synced with antoher system, and do we want to replace the iPhone data or keep it.

Everything that is multimedia will be wiped out by the new iTunes, but if you have something (music, photos, movies) you want to save before syncing, it can be done, but not with iTunes. Use Megaphone (a download) for that, and use it BEFORE you allow the new computer to sync your iPhone with itunes.