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I just backed up my iPhone 4S and restored it onto my iPhone 5. Now, whenever I open "Find My Friends", I get a continuous stream of these messages:

Connect to iTunes to Use Push Notifications

"Find Friends" Notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges.

I can't actually do anything else with the app because as soon as I dismiss one message, another (identical) one pops up. I tried deleting and re-downloading the "Find My Friends" app, but I get the same result.

According to this thread, I can fix the problem by doing a backup and restore onto my phone, but I'd rather not if I can help it. Is there another way to fix this?

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Just curious, have you gone to Notification settings and turned off FMF notifications (completely - everything) to see if the app at least becomes usable? – bassplayer7 Dec 13 '12 at 20:22
Yep, turned it all off. Doesn't make a difference. :( – Colen Dec 13 '12 at 21:55
Weird. Especially because I didn't think you needed iTunes to receive Push Notifications (in fact, I know you don't). I don't think it would fix it but reboot your phone just to make sure. Only other thing I can think of would be sign out and back into iCloud, but that may delete some Photostreamed pictures from your devices - not sure on that one. Otherwise, you may be stuck with a restore. Course, with iCloud it is at least easier then iTunes. – bassplayer7 Dec 14 '12 at 19:04

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I ended up backing up my iPhone, wiping it, then restoring the backup onto it. After that, everything worked fine. There might be a better way of doing it out there, but if so I didn't find it...

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