Does Apple and iTunes not know its own software

When I did the most recent iPhone/iPad update a message came up that said, in part,


"To enable automatic checking for updates, go to the Advanced pane of iTunes preferences and turn on "Check for Software Updates automatically".


However, if you then immediately go to iTunes preferences and look at ALL of them, including the Advanced pane, there is no such message.


Anyone know why that would be???


Would have pasted a couple of screenshots but I see Apple has made that harder as well. Oh my...


thanks



MacBook Pro 15", 10.14

Posted on Feb 11, 2019 2:00 PM

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Feb 12, 2019 10:30 AM in response to razmee209

Hi, I am running 12.9.2.5. Interesting because I am also running the latest version of Mojave 10.14.3 that just came out recently. I would think that would have included the most recent version of iTunes. Hmmmm...


And I just now checked with Software Updates to see if there was anything to update and NO. See screenshot... hmmmm...


I know I sometimes see Safari listed as an update separate from say a full macOS update and I recall having seen the same in the past for iTunes (at least I think I've seen that). But it would appear 12.9.3 for the Mac side of the world isn't out yet??? But that might answer my question. You say you see that on your windows 10 version.


That would be a reasonable answer. I will wait and watch for a new version of iTunes...


Slightly off topic, I like to decide when to do updates. See on my screenshot below where I do NOT have the checkbox checked to automatically update the Mac. I've been updating Mac software since 1984, seriously. And it used to be a process that I was quite comfortable with. But in recent years, Apple has begun to toss some curves, especially with update progress bars that either don't move (don't "progress" for the longest time), start over, or worst of all, back up. And sometimes the computer restarts more than once during a single upgrade... But by far the scariest thing I've encountered and it's happened more than once, is, in the middle of an upgrade, for the computer to shutdown and just sit there, for the longest time... Sits there... Sits there... a good minute and likely more... I finally get too antsy and press the "start" key.... AND IT STARTS!!!!!! And goes on with the update. Like I was supposed to know that I needed to intervene??? Nothing but my own anxiety suggested that... My guess is it would have eventually restarted on its own but I don't know... Again, I've had that experience at least twice. Once is an event. Two is a trend... And I ALWAYS clone my entire drive and usually do an update first on an older MacBook Pro. Still sometimes scary these days though... OK, enough of my whine about "progress bars" and updates.


But it's that same reticence these days (about doing any kind of updates) that prompted me to ask about this disconnect between the iTunes message and what is actually contained in the current version of the iTunes Preferences.


Thanks for your help.


Feb 12, 2019 9:51 AM in response to razmee209

I'm talking about iTunes, the full blown APPLICATION on my MacBook Pro, connected via a cable to my iOS device. From within iTunes, the message I described in my original post pops up (see screenshot attached) but when I go into iTunes Preferences and go to Advanced, there is nothing like that shown. (see a screenshot of that preference pane attached as well.


I can't imagine that while I'm in iTunes on my Mac and a message pops up on that mac's screen that they instead intend for me to go into the preferences on the iOS device itself???



Right or wrong, I've been doing updates via iTunes and a cable connection (once got burned bad by having the huge iOS update download come over my phone's cellular connection rather than my home network even though the latter was available and working fine??? Never did figure out why that happened).


And the message I now see is new so.... Color me confused...



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