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upgraded to iOS 6 and now I can't sync my phone

I upgraded my iPhone 4S to the iOS 6 and now I can't sync my phone to iTunes because I can't upgrade to iTunes 7 with my Mac OS X 10.5.8... anyone know a way around this?

iPhone 4S, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iOS 6, iTunes 7

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 8:06 AM

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Sep 21, 2012 11:26 AM in response to gordonium

Same problem. I just talked to someone at the apple store and she told me to that we have to upgrade to snow leopard then to lion and we should be ale to sync to iTunes then. She told me the only pace to find the disk was on ebay or amazon ($70 and up), but then you have to pay for lion as well. Is there a possibiliy that they are going to release something for the iPhone that will allow su to continue using iTunes without upgrading the system?

Sep 25, 2012 1:35 PM in response to tdubway

Tdubway,


You are an angel 😍


Last Friday 21st Sept, I upgraded my iPhone 3Gs to iOS 6 via Wi-Fi. I left the phone to do it over night. When I woke, I remembered that uprading will not allow my 3Gs to sync with my G5 PowerPC mac 😮

I was running iTunes 10.6.0 at the time. I tried sycing anyway. Got the message that my iphone 3Gs will not sync, and that I need to download itunes 10.7.0. Of course 10.7 does not run on PowerPC's 😢


I tried everything — except erasing the phone. I thought about erasing the phone though, in the hope that I could restore from the last back-up before I upgraded the phone. However, I though twice, because I knew that, if I erased the phone and it did not work, then I would loose everything on the phone. This happened to me before when I was running OSX 10.4, when iTunes 10.5/10.6 was not supported on Power PCs running OSX 10.4.


I searched the whole internet for days. Then today, I stumbled upon this, and All_about_dragons & your posts 😎

To be honest, I did not even know there was an iTunes 10.6.3!

So, I just downloaded and installed it and — volla! My iPhone running iOS 6, sync'ed to my PowerPC Mac, running OSX 10.5.8, like a new born baby to its mothers breast(s); there it is suckling away now 😝


I'm so so chuffed. At one point I was even considering just leaving the iPhone all together after this little iOS 6 stunt from apple, and getting a Samsung Galaxyy S3. I was told the Galaxy S3 has software called "Kies," which is used to sync the S3 and which is just like iTunes. I was gearing up to order an S3 — however, when I went to the Kies (Samsung) website to check the software out, I discovered that the Kies software also has a minimum installation requirement, being yup, an intel powered Mac. 😮, so did not go there as it would have been a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.


For those who where like me, using a PowerPC Mac, but have upgraded their iphone to iOS 6 and can't sync; download Itunes 10.6.3 from here. dont ask me how, but, IT JUST WORKS! 🙂


Thanks Tdubway,

Sep 25, 2012 1:37 PM in response to all_about_dragons

You are an angel 😍


Last Friday 21st Sept, I upgraded my iPhone 3Gs to iOS 6 via Wi-Fi. I left the phone to do it over night. When I woke, I remembered that uprading will not allow my 3Gs to sync with my G5 PowerPC mac 😮

I was running iTunes 10.6.0 at the time. I tried sycing anyway. Got the message that my iphone 3Gs will not sync, and that I need to download itunes 10.7.0. Of course 10.7 does not run on PowerPC's 😢


I tried everything — except erasing the phone. I thought about erasing the phone though, in the hope that I could restore from the last back-up before I upgraded the phone. However, I though twice, because I knew that, if I erased the phone and it did not work, then I would loose everything on the phone. This happened to me before when I was running OSX 10.4, when iTunes 10.5/10.6 was not supported on Power PCs running OSX 10.4.


I searched the whole internet for days. Then today, I stumbled upon these posts 😎

To be honest, I did not even know there was an iTunes 10.6.3!

So, I just downloaded and installed it and — volla! My iPhone running iOS 6, sync'ed to my PowerPC Mac, running OSX 10.5.8, like a new born baby to its mothers breast(s); there it is suckling away now 😝


I'm so so chuffed. At one point I was even considering just leaving the iPhone all together after this little iOS 6 stunt from apple, and getting a Samsung Galaxyy S3. I was told the Galaxy S3 has software called "Kies," which is used to sync the S3 and which is just like iTunes. I was gearing up to order an S3 — however, when I went to the Kies (Samsung) website to check the software out, I discovered that the Kies software also has a minimum installation requirement, being yup, an intel powered Mac. 😮, so did not go there as it would have been a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.


For those who where like me, using a PowerPC Mac, but have upgraded their iphone to iOS 6 and can't sync; download Itunes 10.6.3 from here. dont ask me how, but, IT JUST WORKS! 🙂


Thanks Tdubway,

upgraded to iOS 6 and now I can't sync my phone

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