use another USB cable to connect the phone to the MBP
Attach the phone to another mac.
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<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> When I attach my iPhone to my MacBook Pro it does not show up as a device in the list on the left. Yet I can update apps on the iPhone. There must be something simple that I am missing. I cannnot sync the content of iTunes with the phone

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