Ever since updating to iOS 7.0.3, my iPhone kept telling me to “Connect to iTunes to use Push Notifications”. Connecting to iTunes did just nothing: the notice kept popping up. Additionally iMessage and FaceTime didn’t work anymore, really annoying.
Above that the notice forced some apps in a loop as an app would lose and regain focus with that dialog showing (Dropbox with a passcode for example would get stuck in such a loop). Not that handy.
To fix this, follow these steps (on your iDevice):
That should do it (at least it did for me).
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I am on my iPhone 4 on the latest ios and after disconnecting me from my wifi and signing me out of the youtube app I signed back into both and keep getting this popup I hit OK but it keeps happening over,and ovER,and OVER. I tried this fix and it STILL WONT WORK.
someone says: not working unless step 2 Restart your iDevice using power and home buttons. Claire says: It worked! Thank you! savant says: not work for me Judy says: It worked thanks! Neil says: It worked for me 🙂 manthan says: Not worket in iphone 3gs honda says: u still using 3gs mido says: Alois Ed. Mac says: Damn, it really work, i stop receiving the pop-up from Youtube app Kiki says: I keep getting in the YouTube app even after I tried this. Is it because I am on IPad? Thom.D says: It worked for me too! Many thanks! SARA says: It worked for me ! Many thanks! not worked for me Be cool says:Not working for me but If you have a jailbroken device go to cydia and install ‘pushfix’ to find the source go to : cydia-home-add more packages and sources ,you find many sources add this source ‘iphonemodding’ it works for 100% if not you realy need to restore you device 🙂
moio says: thanks a lot, very helpful. worked on a 3gs Ajeet says: Hi, Thanks, it worked for me on my jailbroken iPhone 4, running iOS 6.0.1. Danted7 says: It worked for me too. Thanks! Abdelkader Boukra says: thank’s bro it work for me Peter Tajthy says:Worked like a charm!
In fact, it even speeded up most of my apps and reduced the crashes I was also experiencing.
I do not know what this issue affected (and how), but this is now solved.
Thanks,
Péter
Yes, this worked for me, THANK YOU so very much! It’s been so very frustrating to get these messages when I log into Facebook and Pinterest on my iPhone. Hopefully this also corrects the problem I’ve been having sending imessages.
kaif says: just restart your mobile no need to log in log out. Levi says: Thanks,worked for me! Laura says: Not worked for me, getting really annoyed with it now, i have tried allsorts including thisdidn’t work for my iphone 4s! I’ve tried everything, from resetting all network settings, to restoring the iphone and nothing has worked!
SirPeet says:I have fixed the problem on my iPhone 4S yesterday. No reset, additional software or anything. Just a simple setting… I posted the solution on the Bram.us page. Please check it out and let me know if it also works for you.
SirPeet says:I was able to solve this “connect to iTunes to use push notifications” problem in iOS8 after trying a lot, but not resetting and restoring my iPhone 4S. The action that gave me a solution was switching off Background App Refresh (under Settings –> General). Later on, I could switch the function on again. The problem did not return.
celchin says: I followed your instructions and it worked like magic! Thanks 🙂 Mike Poynton says: Neither worked for me on a 4s with iOS8. zlodz says:On my 4S/iOS8, it worked as well, even if the global “background App refresh” switch was already off so:
1) switched “background App refresh” ON
2) switched individual app refresh OFF
3) switched “background App refresh” OFF again No reset needed.
Great – this worked for me:
On my 4S/iOS8, it worked as well, even if the global “background App refresh” switch was already off so:
1) switched “background App refresh” ON
2) switched individual app refresh OFF
3) switched “background App refresh” OFF again No reset needed.
Thx! This helped on iPhone 5 with ios 8, but I had to make a ‘hard restart’, ie press home and power button for several seconds until it powers off.
Ace says: it worked for me… keith says: I love you. This finally worked after getting soooo pissed lol Kevin says: Worked for me as well! Thank you! Kristi says:It worked! It worked! I was sure I’d be going to the Apple store tomorrow-ugh. It fixed the error message that was keeping me out of all apps, and it fixed my texts not going through. Thank you soooo much!
Friday says: Worked perfectly for me. Thanks! Tamam says: Edwin says: Worked for me but took a few times Karl says: It worked also on the iPad Dr Roger R Dawson says: It worked for me too – thanks Ed says: Yay – All is well in the world again! Worked great! Thanks and Happy Holidays! Eve says: It worked for me…thank you so much Celia says: thanks a million- your fix worked!! That drove me crazy for a week!! Richard says: Excellent..worked for me. Thanks Dlgash says: Yes it did work for me, thanks a lot. Skyler says: Didn’t work It worked. WOW ! Mina Farouk says: Worked with me 🙂 vahid says: thank you… it worked for me too Kirsty19 says:This hasn’t worked and I’ve tried everything! 🙁 has anyone else got anymore suggestions? I’m getting annoyed now!
James says: Worked for me too.It worked on my IPad! You MUST remember to restart your device! Thank you so very much for the fix! So easy!!
Tausha Redic says: Finally…a fix that worked. Thank you so much. mikylace says: holy sh´´´´ it works just fine! 😀 J says: Works! Thanks (on iOS 8) Nikolas says: It worked! Thanks!! thanks for the help says: this worked for me Wonderful! says:Worked OK for me, just updated to ios 8.1.3 and the annoying stuff started. This was a fast and simple solution for which I thank you 🙂
Diane Forrest says: Thank you very much. This did work for my iPad. Travis says: Worked for me sid says: problem still occurs in my iphone 4 ios 7.1.2 plzzz anyone give me a solution Javier says: Ir worked for me in iOS 7.1.2! Thank You! 🙂 fernando says: yeah it workedconnect to i tune to use push notifications
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Finally worked. Thank you for this solution. It was extremely annoying! Some warning though: the first two times the solution did not work. Then i tried the one from SirPeet (November 19, 2014 at 9:42 pm) which didnt seem to work either. Then i tried zlody’s solution (February 13, 2015 at 2:51 pm) which also didnt seem to work. Then i started over a couple of times with Bramus’ solution followed by SirPeet’s and Zlody’s. And suddenly…..succes. So the moral of this story is to try a couple of times before giving up. The given solutions might not work at once. Btw….when it finally worked i received a notification asking me if i was sure i wanted iMessage on cause my network provider might charge me for that. Weird because i didnt touch iMessage (as far as i know). I was only alternating between the solutions above. Now, im dont know if the iMessage thingy has anything to do with the push-notifications problem but if the given solutions dont work you might try to fiddle around with iMessage a bit. Could well be related.
