iPhone 7 not recognized by Windows 7 [Solved]

Quick Through:  Method One: If you see a  or by the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver Method Two: If you don’t see,  or  by the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver Method Three: If you see next to the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver Method Four: If your iPhone is listed under Other device and with a  next to it iPhone users may have encountered this situation before: you connect your iPhone to your computer, you have clicked the Trust button on your device, but you cannot see iPhone on My Computer.  This is what it should look like if iPhone is detected by Windows. 

In Devices and Printers(Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers), it appears under the Unspecified category as Apple Mobile Device USB Driver.  

Luckily, this is not a hard problem to tackle.  Before we begin, we need to make sure that you have done the following things properly.  1) Make sure that you have the latest version of iTunes that works on your computer. 

2) Check that you have the latest software on your Windows 7. You can check the if there are available updates on your computer by the path Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update. 

3) Press Trust on your iPhone. 

4) Make sure that your device is turned on.  5) Try other USB cables or USB ports to see if iPhone can be detected.  Method One: Manually Update Apple Mobile Device USB Driver This method is adopted when you see a  or by the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver. 

1) Go to Device Manager.  2) Expand category Universal Serial Bus controllers. 

3) Double click Apple Mobile Device USB Driver.  4) In Driver tab, click Update Driver… option.  5) Choose Browse my computer for driver software.  6) Then choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer. 

7) In Apple Mobile Device USB Driver category, choose Have disk… option.  If the Have Disk… option is unavailable under Apple Mobile Device USB Driver category, choose a device category such as Mobile Phone or Storage Device, if that’s what you can see. 

8) Click Browse.  9) Then navigate to  C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers. Double click the usbaapl file. If you are running a 64-bit version of Windows, this file will be called usbaapl64. If you don’t see usbaapl64 here or if there isn’t a Drivers folder, look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers.

10) In the Have Disk window, click OK.  11) Then click Next. Windows will help you with the driver update after this. 

12) Open iTunes now to see if it recognizes your iPhone.  Method Two: Restart the Apple Mobile Device Service  This method applies when you see this notification when connecting your device to PC: This iPhone cannot be used because the Apple Mobile Device Service is not started. 

This method also applies when you don’t see,  or  by the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver.  1) Close iTunes and disconnect your iPhone from your PC. 

2) Press Windows key and R at the same time to invoke a Run command, then type services.msc in and hit Enter.  3) Locate and double click Apple Mobile Device Service. 4) Change the Startup type to Automatic.  5) Click Stop the service. 6) After the service stops, click Start the service. 7) Click OK.

8) Restart your computer. 

9) Open your iTunes and connect your iPhone to your computer.  Method Three: Enable Apple Mobile Device USB Driver If you see next to the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver, this method applies to your situation.  1) Go to Device Manager.  2) Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers. 3) Right click Apple Mobile Device USB Driver and choose Enable.  Method Four: Update iPhone Driver This method applies when you see your iPhone listed under Portable Device instead of Universal Serial Bus controllers and with a yellow exclamation mark next to it. It is highly recommended that you use Driver Easy to scan and download drivers that you need for free. If your iPhone is not showing in the correct position and your computer says it is already the latest version of device driver that Windows can find, then you need to give a try of Driver Easy.  Driver Easy is a free software to use. As the name suggests, it is very easy to use. There are only two steps involved.  1) Click Scan Now button to scan for the new drivers available.  2) Click the Update button next to Apple Mobile Device USB Driver and wait for Driver Easy to help you with the device driver update. 

That’s all you need to do. 

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