Sync iOS 9.0.2 with iTunes 11.4?

Uh, that "solution" sounds misinterpreted to me. The issue is iOS9 requires iTunes 12.3. It doesn't matter how iOS9 gets on the device, once it is there the device requires iTunes 12.3.

Apple doesn't see it as a problem; nothing to correct. They see it as no longer supporting obsolete equipment. Actually you've been lucky with iTunes so far. Everything else Apple develops long abandoned OSX 10.6. A general rule is about 5 years and then support strongly diminishes. Getting 7 years of supported iTunes is a good run.

This is not true: my iOS 9.0 device syncs perfectly with my iTunes 12.2.2

Didn't try 9.01... why isn't Apple giving official system (not hardware) requirements for iOS 9?

Yeah, Apple just don't get it that they don't get it ... why bother to design such a reliable and mesmerizing devices and later obliterate -without warning- its use? my MacBook 2008 still works great, I never hoped to last so far -even exceeding the performance of newer non-Apple laptops-.

Apple, let us annoy our PC's friends, let us brag our decision to successfully switch to your products and systems.

Seriously, let us still transfer the music we love to our devices ... please.

I just reloaded my MacBook Pro with Mavericks and iTunes 11.4 and can report that my iPad with iOS 9.0.2 installed syncs just fine with the MBP.

The iPad has been updated OTA through iOS 8 up to 9.0.2.

You have correctly identified the original issue. iOS 9.0 would not work with iTunes 11.4, the highest version of iTunes that will work with Snow Leopard. I run 10.6.8 and had to reinstall iOS 8.4.1 on my iPhone 5 because I had upgraded it through iTunes. The problem Thorzdad brings up is more specific to those of us who run Snow Leopard because it will not run iTunes 12. Apple has stopped signing the restore software for iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0, which means that if you upgrade your iPhone or iPad through iTunes v11.4, you WILL NOT be able to downgrade it back to iOS 8.4.1 unless you have downloaded the software before Apple stopped signing it.

Has anyone upgraded their iPhone or iPad OTA to iOS 9.0.2 who is using Snow Leopard as their MacBook Pro operating system? That is the question Thorzdad (and others like us) need answered. If you are already running Lion or higher, then you cannot answer this question for us.

What a lucky coincidence that I happen to have a late 2009 iMac with freshly loaded Snow Leopard (10.6.8 - the last update for SL).

And it still works fine. See below screenshot. I doubted that the problem would be related to OS version.

I have the same operating system: iMac 10.6.8 with iTunes 11.4.

9.0.2 works fine for iPads. For iPhone 5c, not so much. iPhone 5c with 9.0.2 is not recognized by iTunes 11.4. Cannot back up phone, cannot add songs to iPhone. Hopefully Apple will allow both iPad Air and iPhone 5c with 9.0.2 to still work smmothly.

Mac manages to address one issue and creates 300 new ones. 😠

Would resetting the iPhone 5c back to factory settings resolve this?

I was connected directly to iTunes via USB. Did not use Wi-fi.

I guess the question is did Apple do this on purpose so they do not have to support 10.6.8 or is a glitch?

QUESTION: would downloading OS X El Capitan to my iMac (current operating Snow Leopard 10.6.8) for free via the App store resolve this issue?

Apparently the answer to my above question is YES.

These computers can run El Capitan:

• iMac: Mid 2007 or newer
• MacBook: Aluminium Late 2008; Early 2009 or newer
• MacBook Air: Late 2008 or newer
• MacBook Pro: 13-inch, Mid 2009 or newer; 15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or newer; 17-inch, Late 2007 or newer
• Mac Mini: Early 2009 or newer
• Mac Pro: Early 2008 or newer
• Xserve: Early 2009

These computers support features such as Handoff, Instant Hotspot, AirDrop between Mac computers and iOS devices, as well as the new Metal API:

• iMac: Late 2012 or newer
• MacBook: Early 2015 or newer
• MacBook Air: Mid 2012 or newer
• MacBook Pro: Mid 2012 or newer
• Mac Mini: Late 2012 or newer
• Mac Pro: Late 2013 or newer

More here...

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewI nOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_11.html

Oh Apple. When you sent your new update to my iphone it caused it to no longer have compatibility with my iMac because my iMac running Snow Leopard is obsolete. Except it isn't. Why? Because everything works great on it except my iphone does not recognize it. Will you cause me to buy a new iMac so my iphone can sync to it? No way. I downloaded google play to my iMac and to my iphone and now I have a better system than iTunes and it all syncs perfectly. How come Google apps work on my Apple hardware but Apple apps can't? Will my next phone be an Apple phone? No. Will my next computer be an Apple computer? No. You're getting worse and worse Apple.

I just updated my iPad OTA to iOS 9.1. And it still syncs just fine with iTunes 11.4.

I've had this same problem and first noticed it when I got my iphone 6 back in Jan of 2015. I did some update it would no longer work syncing with iTunes. Now, I've run into this again. I've been bugging Apple care about this; as the result of another issue, they insisted I update my software. I disagreed with the advice but reluctantly went ahead with it. Now it fails to sync.

What I've pointed out (no one else seems to have caught onto this) is that they are still supporting Windows 7 with iTunes. WHAT THE HEY HO??? Windows 7 was released the same time as Snow Leopard. So they support Microsoft but not their own community of mac users. I still love my 2009 MBP and it runs great. I didn't think I would have to update my entire operating system just to sync a phone.

I feel as though Apple no longer wants to support users freedom and is now interested only on conformity.