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My macbook pro is from 2008. Up until yesterday I was able to hook it up to my iphone 11. After I downloaded the update on my phone, my laptop no longer recognizes my phone. There are no updates for the laptop.
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
It looks like Apple dropped support for managing an iPhone running iOS 17, from a Mac running El Capitan. Which leaves you stuck because your Mac can't go forward, and your iPhone can't downgrade (to go back).
You might look into the third-party application iMazing to see if it does what you need. It will run on Yosemite, or higher, which would include El Capitan.
It looks like Apple dropped support for managing an iPhone running iOS 17, from a Mac running El Capitan. Which leaves you stuck because your Mac can't go forward, and your iPhone can't downgrade (to go back).
You might look into the third-party application iMazing to see if it does what you need. It will run on Yosemite, or higher, which would include El Capitan.
Connecting an unit on 17 to a Mac requires it to be running High Sierra or above, which requires a MacBook Pro to be a 2010 or newer model.
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So if my Mac can't update any more because it is old, that means I can no longer connect my iphone to it?
