iphone with IoS9 incompatible with Snow Leopard

First short answer obviously should be YES.

9.01 should be no problem.

you make a valid point and I am waiting on the answer too! Everyone keeps going on about downgrading but we/I can't connect to itunes to do that either. iOS 9 needs iTunes 12.4 and that will only work on 10.6.8 or later! So I am stuck too!

Hi unless you have a good reason to use pc for iPhone / ipad since ios 7 almost everything can be done over your WiFi .

We have 2iphones/ 3 iPads and we do everything over WiFi .

Havent used PC for over 2 years for iPhones /iPads.

Cheers

Brian (uk)

Hi

it took me 15 mins to find your thread again, but i had to find it to say thank you for your post. it worked! you are right you need to read the article slowly and also download the correct ipsw, (took me 4 attempts)

but thanks again!!

All working and back to normal!!

Mark- it worked for me, as it says in step 3B of the Macworld instructions, to plug in the phone in recovery mode- it then showed up in my iTunes and I could restore it to 8.4.1 which I had downloaded. Hope it works for you.

I'm afraid iOS 8.4.1 is not signed anymore by Apple.

A friend of mine tried to downgrade this morning and was not allowed to do it 😠

just checked ipsw web site and its still there! tell them to keep trying.....

I am in the same place. I have been enjoying 9 until I tried to sync the phone today. this is not a reason to upgrade my trust 2006 macbook!

What would happen if I just wait for the next update to ios9 and then did it with phone as recommended and not via itunes? Downgrading and back ups etc. seems like a real pain to go through, to just then update it again to 9 over the wireless and phone?

thoughts?

I think you should downgrade right away to apply the iOS9 upgrade over the air.

The incompatibility with iTunes 11.4 isn't a technical one but I guess it's a choice from Apple to force users upgrading and leave old versions of MacOS X.

My guess is that they have include in the full version of iOS9 (the one obtained thru iTunes) a test of the iTunes version to reject the one older than 12.3.

In the light OTA update, this test is missing.

If you waIt for the next minor iOS 9 update, the test already installed on your iPhone will remain.

And second, you take the risk by waiting, that the iOS 8.4.1 will not be signed by Apple anymore making the downgrade impossible.

(And final advice... People still using SnowLeopard shouldn't apply future minor iOS9 updates, even OTA, as I'm afraid the iTunes version test will be included)

This is my experience: I've uptated my last gen. iPod Touch to iOS 9.0 via an iTunes 12.2.2 installed on an iMac with Lion on it.

Everything works without issues and the iPod syncs, but know I hesitate to update to iOS 9.01 (or 0.2), because I'm afraid that it will not sync anymore.

My complaint is that there is no official information from Apple about the system requirements for iOS 9, so we don't know if those issues are a bug that will be fixed in the future or the end of the compatibility between iOS9 and iTunes 12.2...

My complaint is that there is no official information from Apple about the system requirements for iOS 9, so we don't know if those issues are a bug that will be fixed in the future or the end of the compatibility between iOS9 and iTunes 12.2...

http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/

"Syncing with iTunes on a Mac or PC requires:

Mac: OS X v10.8.5 or later

PC: Windows 7 or later

iTunes 12.3 or later"

Thanks, I've got an iPod Touch but the specs are the same… strange that everything works fine with 9.0 and iTunes 12.2...

Probably it was intended to work with iTunes 12.0 but they had to fix some iTunes bugs. You just didn't happen to run into the bugs. Anyway, anything that runs iTunes 12.2 can be updated to 12.3

Don't scare me too much 😮

I've been looking at this post as this same thing just happened to my girlfriend this morning (Friday, Oct. 2). Yesterday she updated to iOS 9 (I don't know right now if 9.0 or 9.0.1 or 9.0.2) via iTunes over the wire, and then got the message that her phone wouldn't work with iTunes.

If I understand this thread correctly, I should downgrade her back to 8.4.1, then re-upgrade her to iOS 9 over wireless instead of connected to iTunes.

Question: does anyone know if 8.4.1 remains signed by Apple? Would it be too late to downgrade tonight (Friday, Oct. 2)?