For how long will iTunes be supported in pre-Catalina versions of the OS ?

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

Posted on Jul 1, 2019 1:56 PM

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Posted on Jul 2, 2019 8:26 AM

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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Jul 2, 2019 8:26 AM in response to Daniel Santos

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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