Will there be an alternative for those old operating systems ? I have several machines on High Sierra and on on El Capitan that cannot be updated, and I want to keep using my itunes account on them
Mac Pro
The rumours of the death of iTunes have been somewhat exaggerated. iTunes is staying exactly the same except for those who install the next version of macOS 10.15 Catalina where the functions will be split between three new apps and Finder, the Mac equivalent to Windows Explorer. See About the upcoming changes with iTunes on Mac - Apple Support for details that have been made public so far. Most of Apple's iTunes customers will not be running Catalina in the short term. Anyone still running Windows Vista or OS X 10.9 Mavericks lost support a year ago due to changes in minimum encryption standards as set out in About App Store and iTunes Store availability - Apple Support.
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The rumours of the death of iTunes have been somewhat exaggerated. iTunes is staying exactly the same except for those who install the next version of macOS 10.15 Catalina where the functions will be split between three new apps and Finder, the Mac equivalent to Windows Explorer. See About the upcoming changes with iTunes on Mac - Apple Support for details that have been made public so far. Most of Apple's iTunes customers will not be running Catalina in the short term. Anyone still running Windows Vista or OS X 10.9 Mavericks lost support a year ago due to changes in minimum encryption standards as set out in About App Store and iTunes Store availability - Apple Support.
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To answer that would require speculation which we are not allowed to do. We are fellow users like you and that information has not been released. I will say that I have an iPod touch 3rd Gen and it is working fine.
For how long will iTunes be supported in pre-Catalina versions of the OS ?
