I have an iBook G4 & my iphone 4s wont sync to the current version of itunes,it says i need 11.1 or
later version? It has 30 GB Hard Drive, 1 GHZ PowerPC G4 processor,512 MB DDR RAM
OS X 10.5.8 Leopard,Do I need to upgrade in order to get lastest version & how much does it cost? Thanks!
iBook, Other OS, 10.5.8 Leopard
If, in fact you an older G4 iBook, it is too old to run the newer iTunes versions and your iPhone 4S.
Your iBook is an old IBM PowerPC model and newer iPhones and later versions of iTunes need a newer Mac than your with an Intel CPU.
Syncing with iTunes on a Mac or PC requires:
The highest OS X for most G4 and G5 Macs is OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
Thanks,Can I Do & Upgrade with a different OS or will it not help?
JessLivers2014 wrote:
Thanks,Can I Do & Upgrade with a different OS or will it not help?
No.
You have the highest OS X version that can be installed. You cannot go any farther.
You need a new or newer ( new to you) Intel Mac.
Is the another music program like iTunes I
Could try for that OS X that might work?
Sent from my iPhone
To be able to sync the music from your iPhone or download any purchased music you purchased on your iPhone via your Mac?
No.
All music is purchased through iTunes. You could try the version of iTunes you have now on your Mac to see if any of your newly purchased music and iOS Apps can be downloaded to you Mac, but you will NOT be able to sync your iPhone at all to get any data or info off of if into iTunes
One way to get pictures off of your iPhone is to email them to yourself and/or try to find a cloud service, like DropBox, that will still be compatible with your version of OS X and a version that is on the App Store for iOS and use this from your iPhone to get info to your Mac.The Mac version has to work with OS X 10.5 Leopard to be able to work back and forth between your iPhone and Mac.
You will have Google for this as I have no idea if there are any cloud services available that will work with a Mac running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
This OS X version is very old and many developers have abandoned support for this OS X version.
No newer versions of OS X will not work or be downloadable as these only work with newer Intel CPU Macs and all version of OS X from OS X 10.7 Lion and forward are download only, now, from the Mac Apps Store which is only available from Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard onward and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is for newer Intel Macs and WILL NOT work on older PowerPC Macs like yours.
Other than the alternatives I gave you, a new or newer (used) Intel Mac are your only options.
Your Mac is just too old ( almost 10 years old).
Sorry,
Good Luck!
I have a 4S also. You can look into cloud storage if it's just music you want to Sync. I use Google Drive on a Chromebook and listen to my music with an app called Vibe. It's $3 but there are other free apps in the app store. Documents 5 is a good free one. You can even stream from iCloud with that one. Hope that helps!
I cant sync iphone 4s with itunes on my iBook G4?
