Q: iPhone SE and OS 10.7.5
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May 14, 2016 1:50 PMby elcpu,I don't understand why your old phone will not backup to iCloud. That may be worth investigating.
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Do you have a friend with a Windows computer? If yes, iTunes 12.3.3, which is required for the iPhone SE, will run on any Windows 7 computer or later. You could backup your old iPhone to that computer and restore the backup to the SE. Just another option.
Your apps and contacts could very well be in iCloud.com. Worth looking there as well.
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May 14, 2016 2:13 PMby sberman,Danielmak wrote:
I just bought an iPhone SE and am trying to restore from the backup of my old iPhone but I receive the following error message when I connect the iPhone to my laptop: "The iPhone “iPhone” cannot be used because it requires a newer version of iTunes. Go to www.itunes.com to download the latest version of iTunes."
I am still running OS 10.7.5 (not on the laptop listed below--it's a work laptop) and have the most up-to-date version of iTune for this software.
The problem is that OS X 10.7 (Lion, released in 2010) is too old to support the current version of iTunes (12.3.3). iOS 9 devices require at least iTunes 12.3.2. iTunes 12.3 requires at least OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). So, although you have the latest iTunes for your Lion software, that is insufficient.
Follow Niel's advice above.
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May 14, 2016 3:00 PMby Danielmak,Thanks for all the replies. I unchecked all the options for icloud and then re-added one by one and that worked for iCloud backups. My wifi is very fast so I have no idea why the backup was failing. Anyway, I'm set with that but will try the partition option for future use. My office computer is currently running Yosemite and will be soon updated to El Capitain but I am not always there since I work at home a lot. I just came home with the new phone so wasn't going to travel to the office just for this.
In the end, I also found some other threads that were somewhat similar and it seems that a lot of people with older computers are screwed by these limitations with Apple and iTunes. I would think that the purchase of a $500+ phone would be enough for the company and they aren't going to expect that people with older computers should have to purchase a new computer plus new supporting software just to be able to use a phone. I get that there will always be limits with what can happen with software. However, if I choose to use an old OS or an old computer then I am limiting what's available to me but something like backing up a phone or re-storing from a backup should basically account for ever version of OS10 forward.
