Will a mac-formatted iPhone work?

with the blue&me system?

and do what ? act as a phone, music storage or pretty decoration

most importantly: music storage and playback

Music wise, does not work for me, phone works ok with the bluetooth but will not read texts.

Does the Iphone connect up to windows media player? That might be a place to start your research. If it cant do this and needs its own program to play things through then it def wont work. If it can be recognised as a removable storage device it may have a chance

iphone/ipod touch dont work with music as windows cant talk properly them with them being mac operatin systems

It's not the OS. If the tracks on your I-phone are in the AiFF format. They won't play on Blue and Me. AIFF is Apples DRM format. If you download from I-tunes tracks will be in that format. If you have ripped tracks from a CD, they are most likely to be in the MP3 format which will play on blue and Me. I-tunes does give you the ability to re-format tracks to MP3, so that is probably thee best option.

An iPhone formatted in iTunes with a Mac will format it in Mac OS Extended format and will not work with your Blue&Me system as it only accepts FAT file systems. If the iPhone works like the iPod, borrow a mate's PC and perform a Restore of the Firmware on it, by default this will set it up with the FAT file system, but it will still work with your Mac (Macs read FAT but Windows doesn't read Mac OS Extended).

So I can restore it in windows, so it's formatted that way for the car and then sync it to my mac for music, without having to restore again?

is that true?

i have an ipod touch and all my tunes are mp3 and it quite simply doesnt work due to the fact that macs and windows talk 2 different languages

I myself don't have an iPhone, a lover of Apple products I am, but I wouldn't touch O2 with a barge pole!

However, if the iPhone summary screen looks similar to the iPod summary screen, there should be a Restore button which will reformat the iPod/iPhone:


Did you do this at the beginning when you first got the iPhone? My iPod was formatted as FAT32 by default and I had to do this process to format it in Mac OS Extended format. Might be worth double-checking the format of the iPhone: