iTunes no longer available from the Microsoft Store?

Hi --

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Unfortunately, what you're suggesting is what I explained in my original post isn't working for me (and continues to not work via your supplied link):

• I go to apple.com/itunes on my Windows laptop.
• It invites me to download iTunes for Windows at the Microsoft Store (with a link to do so).
• That link goes to this page--https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/itunes/9PB2MZ1ZMB1S?hl=en-ca&gl=CA-- which has screen shots of iTunes and a Get in Store app link on the right (the only clear option to download anything)
• And clicking on that link takes me to the Microsoft Store itself, with the result I'll supply here in a screen cap:

This is, for what it's worth, the same result I was getting on my wife's computer (via Chrome, whereas I use Firefox). As you can see, iTunes isn't even showing in search results, let alone being made available to download.

A quick online search for a statement akin to 'itunes not available for Windows' presents many posts regarding iTunes no longer being made available for Windows. While there were various conclusions as to why it's the case--some said it was glitchy enough that Microsoft kicked it out of its store, others said it was Apple's choice, etc.--what they all agreed on was that someone using Windows could no longer download iTunes. Some sites stated that if you already had it installed, it wouldn't be affected other than it may no longer upgrade, but those same sites said that, again, it wasn't available to download for Windows users who didn't already have it.

I'm just at a loss for where this leaves iPhone users who don't have iTunes available to do a sanctioned manual backup of their phone data. I've seen a number of third party services/apps that claim to back up data to Windows well and thoroughly, but I'm reluctant to use those, plus they cost quite a bit. But that seems to be the only option at the moment.

Hi, fiend —

Thanks for following up.

Your initial link didn’t work for me (I think it was the added slash at the end that did it), but when I went to apple.com/itunes manually and followed your suggested steps from there (going to the bottom link instead of through the Microsoft Store link), I was able to get a download from Apple instead, which was huge progress. So it seems the people having this discussion online are right insofar as iTunes isn’t available via Microsoft sources but is installable via Apple itself.

Downside: Your approach downloads a file that can onky be installed on Windows 10. So it didn’t work on my Windows 8 laptop, and while I thought my wife’s laptop was Windows 10 so tried the installation there, it’s Windows 8.1.

This is all getting me closer to where I need to be, and all the help is much appreciated, but is there a way to get it a version for Windows 8? Or am I just hosed on options due to having such outdated OS’s on our laptops?

Hold up. I was able to find a link in a different thread for the Windows 8 version of iTunes from the Apple site (still not from Microsoft itself, which remains bizarre to me).

Got it and installed it and it seems to be running.

Thanks for the help, all!

Got all that. Thanks for the info.

Your final guess about it not working on a Windows 8 machine was probably the issue I was having, given it's that same laptop I was trying to use the link from and get the download for.

Having said all that, I finally got iTunes installed, only to find out once I got ahold of Apple--this is all regarding trying to get a manual backup for my iPhone before making some changes to it--that the latest version of iTunes I can get still won't talk to my iPhone 11.

Thanks again.

As in the screen cap above, if I go to the Microsoft Store and type in "itunes", the iTunes program doesn't show up. Not a past version (which I appreciate they wouldn't have reason to carry), but also not a present version.

The method you suggested for me to get iTunes through Apple worked. I downloaded it and was installing it before it gave me the error saying that its version is for a newer OS than I had. But whether it was correct for my OS or not, iTunes is at least downloadable from Apple. But the Microsoft Store isn't showing to me in any version--regardless of its being usable for my OS or not. I wasn't able to get any version of the program from the Microsoft Store, whereas I was able to get various versions from Apple. Hence my understanding why people are discussing it not being available via Microsoft.

Thanks again for the help.