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The Finder can't quit because an operation is still in progress on an iOS device

Posted: 2020-12-29

When trying to reboot macOS Catalina 10.15, I recently got the following message:

The Finder can’t quit because an operation is still in progress on an iOS device.

Try again after completing the operation.

My iPhone—which I have set up to do wifi syncing—wasn’t, and there was nothing I could find in the UI to fix it. Additionally, Googling the error message gave some results, but nothing that helped in my case.

The fix I found was to kill usbmuxd:

sudo killall -9 usbmuxd

After which I could reboot successfully.


Last updated: 2023-08-26

Tags: debugging, notetoself



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