In its large memory space the iPhone can store huge volumes of data. It can store emails, photos, contacts, SMS, ringtones, songs, videos and much more. But it is essential that this data on the iPhone is backed up because ones the data on it lost or even becomes inaccessible it can never be recovered back. It is advisable that the user regularly backup the files after frequent intervals of time. To backup the data, iTunes is one of the best options as it is a computer program innovated by the Apple Inc. But sometimes the iPhone does not appear in iTunes making it impossible for the user to use it for syncing the data on the iPhone with the computer.

When iPhone does not appear in iTunes the user cannot find the iPhone in the Devices menu in iTunes, an exclamation point, a question mark, a plug symbol or X appears near the entry of the device in Device Manager. Even while updating or restoring the iPhoen is not recognized by iTunes. If the iPhone battery is not fully charged then also the problem may be encountered.

iPhone wont show up iTunes due to a number of reasons such as the iTunes not being compatible with the iPhone, it is of an old version or the USB port is 2.0 version.

To get rid of the error first of all make sure that the iPhone battery is fully charged, if its not then charge it and wait for about 10 minutes to find the error fixed. If the problem persists then download the latest version of iTunes and also check the USB port.

Even after performing all the aforementioned steps you find that the error persists then you can make use of an efficient and reliable third party iPhone backup softwrae that can backup the entire data stored on the iPhone on your computer. Since the software is compatible with both Mac and PC, one can create the backup on any of the two without any hassles.