Q: iPhoto Update Unavailable with This Apple ID
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Sep 5, 2016 3:30 PMby Niel,Mac OS X 10.10.3 and newer include Photos, which is intended as a replacement for iPhoto and can import its library. If you'd like to go on using iPhoto in addition to or instead of switching to Photos, click here and try following the instructions; you'll only be able to do so if you previously got iPhoto from or associated it with the Mac App Store.
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Sep 5, 2016 7:50 PMby LarryHN,Basically the answer is to learn Photos and migrate to it
iPhoto 9.6.1 will still work for some time but no one knows how long
What version of iPhoto do you have? Have you migrated to Photos? If so have you read the help file and the overview info under the Help menu?
LN
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Sep 5, 2016 9:41 PMby léonie,Niel and Larry are right - just a short explanation what has happened to iPhoto: Apple stopped the developement of iPhoto and Aperture more than a year ago, when it released the new Photos for Mac application. In the consequence, iPhoto is no longer sold at the AppStore, and you can no longer update older iPhoto versions, that have not been sold from the App Store. The only possible update is by reinstalling an AppStore version, as described in the ", click here" link that Niel posted, and that requires iPhoto to be in your Purchases history at the AppStore. But even if you suucceed to to update to iPhoto 9.6.1, the version you need for El Capitan, it will be a dead end. You can no longer purchase any print products from iPhoto and there will be no updates for newer systems.
You can migrate your iPhoto libraries to Photos for Mac. All photos, albums, metadata will be migrated to your new Photos Library, see these links:
- Updating from iPhoto to Photos for OS X - Apple Support
- How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
- And the Photos Help: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.2/
Photos for Mac will be supported for the years to come, iPhoto is a dead end now.
