itunes 12.3 wont work with OSX 10.6.8

I´m impressed how many views about the same point postet here.

Ok the privacy is clear, but why become windows user here better support like OS User?

I now eat the "sour apple" and upgrade my early 2k8 imac to el captain, because thats the only os i get for free.

Now my imac feels 40% slower, think i now have an Windows Mac only the sandclock is switched with a colored ball 😟

Mail crashed every time i go on one of my imported mails and more.

I wish a time maschine to travel back 3 weeks ago and by a newer phone for my anki overdrive test and let all other device running their old, fast and great OS.

After my genius visit of the 30th AMIGA Annniversay Party in Neuss at saturday, i think i take a closer look to alternate OS with taff guys like RJ Mical or Trevor Dickinson etc. with more fair handling to his users and fans.

Yes, it will be slower which is why people eventually end up buying newer machines and why Apple simply stops coding for older hardware. Another consideration is upgrading the hardware on your computer. How much RAM do you have? If you were running Snow Leopard before it is quite possible you have 2GB RAM. Any new OS will need 4 at least. Some people also get the "like new" feeling if they replace the traditional drive in a computer with a SSD.

4GB in since day one of his life.

After i read, that 3rd Party get 6GB (1x2GB/1x4GB) to run i checked prices, but one 4GB Module is to expensive (round about 150$).

Is there another solution, (other than purchasing a new computer)? I have a macbook 10.6.8 that has served me well for many years and have had a iphone 5 for the last three years. Never had any issues with syncing (my 5 was not updated until today). Today I purchased the new iphone 6s+. I was able to set up the phone from i cloud backup and have some of my music. However, I didn't have my entire music library on my previous phone because of the space. Now I have the room, but now I can't get the rest of my music library transferred because of the itunes dilemma. I was thinking about using a flash drive to extract the music from the mac, download it on my husband PC( his has newer system), connect my iphone 6s with data cable and sign into itunes and then BAM! Right? That'll work, right? LOL...I'll try and let you know. Any ideas???? Anyone?

Exactly my situation. Surely there is some way to uninstall the latest itunes from my iMac (10.6.8)? I was perfectly happy with iTunes 11.4. I cannot contemplate upgrading beyond 10.6.8 as this would disable most of the applications that i use.

Correction - I Have NOT installed iTunes 12.3 on the iMac. I need to UNinstall OS 9 from the Ipad. My mini iPad works fine with the older OS and I need to revert to this on the other one to be able to sync with the iMac 10.6.8.

What can I do? iphone 5c 9.3.2 with itunes 11.4 will no longer recognize my phone! I had so much "other" I decided to wipe it and start from back up. NO longer can I use itunes to back up? *****! Hopelessly lost in a sea of rotten apples...

I agree with you M8DSJ i am running snow leopard with my old protools 8 and itunes synced up with my ipad gen3 which apple insisted i update ios

and my 9yrs old son accidently updated it now it wont work with snow leopard and its asking for snowleopard to update to new system to work with my ipad which is now clitchy as **** because of the update, and all i want to do is use this old mac for recording music and transfering my music to my older ipad,

apple are controlling us, maybe time to change !!!! very unhappy

Ah, this is a thing still.

I just recently upgraded to ios 9 on my iphone 6 so sorry to chime in so late. I have been on a previous firmware for fairly obvious reasons and when I backed up before the giant leap to ios 9 I did it in Snow Leopard. Upgrading was performed in a windows environment. Ah, so that backup is now useless because Snow Leopard is still on iTunes 11. No big deal, I like a clean install with new ios' drop but honestly my system is 98% of the time booted into Snow Leopard. I have iTunes open all the time for Home Sharing. It is logical that I would like to backup and deal with my iphone on the operating system I use most frequently. The possibility of it happening is supposedly slim and the reasons are sheer ridiculousness.

Yeah yeah, business as usual - I understand that.

Snow Leopard can run the latest iTunes just fine - it just doesn't because they say so. Oh coding and hours and time and money and resources and blah blah blah. Yo, they make plenty of money. Apple has revolutionized the mobile phone market and their planned obsolescence is nothing new. BUT they also have plenty of reasons to stop being phallic symbols and open up their death grip a little, hey maybe this recent un-encrypted ios10 beta news is a sign of things to come? I mean it is amazing and laughable and also kind of skeazy but I guess it is just the way things work that all the major jailbreak tweaks become eventually incorporated into future official ios releases.

My point is, come on man, this is still a thing?

I know all you devout techno-obsessed - constant upgrader - live in the now - pony up the cash - I been around the block for ever and you people are stupid for wanting something I don't want - you should have paid attention to the fine print people have very valid points as to WHY they don't NEED to support older hardware and software. I know very well I am using "obsolete" Snow Leopard software but my hardware (not mac) as a matter of fact proficiently runs El Capitan and Win10. I only mention this because of the poor others that have hardware limitations that "could" be the reasons iTunes wouldn't run on their systems... I guess... It is my choice to keep it at 10.6.8 for specific reasons.

Is the answer to blindly upgrade software/hardware, be surprised that this is the case then have to deal with downgrading software or just urinating on the newly updated telephone device and getting a new one?

Is the answer to do nothing and suck it up, enjoy my seemingly brand new phone but just boot to another OS in order to interface my phone with my computer?

Or can someone figure out a way for iTunes to update and run on unsupported Snow Leopard?

I have the same problem, I got very reliable MacBookPro 17 inch with 10.6.8 OS and I just found out I can't sync my iPhone 7 Plus, my iPad, etc. it requires "new version" of iTunes, but there is a catch, so called "new version" can not be upgraded on older version of Mac computers.

Basically it is not that so called new version is any better, they simply want you to purchase new computers so their share price would go up, if you are a shareholder it's ok, but a regular guy, you are screwed.

All the music, videos, movies you got on old Mac, there is nothing you can do with them, no more synching for you.

It is just a corporate greed, force people to buy new computers, and they didn't even release new iMacs.

Those old iMacs are sitting there in Apple store for years without any upgrade, just software cosmetics, and now after synching blackmail, they are expecting everybody to run to purchase them, very sad.