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Question: Q: No Apple USB Driver in Windows 10 Device Manager Is there a way to get the Apple USB Driver back in the Windows 10 Device Manager. I downloaded the iTunes 12.3.3 yesterday and now it is gone.
Windows 10 PC users never had to manually install iPhone drivers in order to backup or sync iPhone in Windows 10 PC using iTunes. This seems to have changed with the Store version of the iTunes app for Windows 10.
Users who have installed iTunes app from Windows Store seems to be getting “driver not installed” error when iPhone is connected to the PC. It seems that the Store version of iTunes (see how to download iTunes from Apple without Store) doesn’t automatically install necessary iPhone drivers (USB device driver) during its installation.
If you are also getting “driver not installed” error in iTunes for iPhone, you can manually install required iPhone drivers with ease.
We can use the Windows Update service in Windows 10 to download and install the correct iPhone drivers for Windows 10.
Method 1 of 2
Install iPhone drivers in Windows 10
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to Windows 10 PC and launch iTunes.
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Step 2: When you get the “driver not installed” error, navigate to Windows 10 Settings app > Update & security > Windows Update. Click on Check for updates button to automatically download and install iPhone drivers. Windows Update will download and install two small drivers.
Once the necessary drivers are installed, you may close and then launch the iTunes app. iTunes should now detect your iPhone without the “driver not installed” error.
Method 2 of 2
Install iPhone driver in Windows 10
Step 1: Open the Device Manager by right-clicking on the Start button on the taskbar and then clicking on the Device Manager option.
Step 2: In the Device Manager window, look for Portable devices (your iPhone must be connected to your PC). Expand Portable devices entry to see Apple iPhone entry. Right-click on iPhone entry and then click Update driver option.
Step 3: In the resulting dialog, click Search automatically for updated driver software option. Windows 10 will automatically download and install the required drivers for your iPhone.
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The Apple Software Update tool gets installed when you install iTunes, QuickTime or iCloud on your Windows PC. As the name of the software implies, it’s job is to regularly check if updates are available for iTunes, QuickTime, Apple Software Update, or iCloud installed on your Windows machine and alert the user about available updates.
The Apple Software Update tool is very handy as you don’t need to manually check for updates for above mentioned Apple programs. And more importantly, when updates are available, you can update program(s) with a few mouse clicks. That is, once you permit the software to download and install updates, the Apple Software Update tool automatically downloads and updates software in the background.
While it’s recommended to run a software with all available updates, at times, you might want to ignore an update for some time or skip an update. Since Apple Software Update tool automatically checks for updates in the background, the tool displays update screen quite often when there is an update available.
Not all users like to see frequent pop-up about updates and prefer to disable Apple Software Update to avoid seeing the update pop-up.
If you’re on Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7, follow the given below directions to turn off or disable Apple Software Update.
Method 1 of 3
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Ignore or skip the currently available update
Step 1: When you see the Apple Software Update dialog, select update(s) that you want to ignore.
Step 2: Once update(s) selected, click Tools menu, and then click Ignore Selected Updates option.
The Apple Software Update tool will not show pop-up for the ignored updates.
Method 2 of 3
Stop Apple Software Update tool from checking for updates
As said before, the Apple Software Update tool regularly checks for updates and notifies you when updates are available. With default settings, the tool checks for updates once a week but you can configure it to check for update once in a month or never. Here is how to do that.
Step 1: Type Apple Software Update in Start menu search box and then press Enter key to open the same.
Step 2: Click Edit menu and then click Preferences to open Apple Software Update Preferences dialog.
Step 3: Here, under Schedule tab, select Never and then click OK button to stop the tool from checking for updates. If you want the software to check for updates once in a month, select Monthly instead.
Method 3 of 3
Permanently disable Apple Software Update
Step 1: Type Task Scheduler in Start menu search box and then press Enter key to open the same.
Step 2: Expand Task Scheduler Library tree by double-clicking on the same.
Step 3: Click on Apple entry.
Step 4: On the right-side, right-click on AppleSoftwareUpdate, and then click Delete.
Get the iTunes app from the Store
Apple is now offering the iTunes app from the Windows 10 Store. If you are on Windows 10, getting the iTunes app from the Store makes sense as it won’t bug you with the Software Update prompt.
Hope this helps!
And if iTunes is not detecting your iPhone in Windows 10, please refer to our fix to iPhone not detected by iTunes in Windows 10 guide.