Does iOS 11.3 still works with iTunes 12.6.3

There is no reason to suspect the iOS 11.3 isn't compatible with iTunes 12.6.3.6. It is the 4th version of iOS 11 and the other three are compatible. There are unlikely to be updates to the 12.6.3.6 branch.

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Looks like Apple are listening after all. Deploy apps in a business environment with iTunes - Apple Support has been updated with links to version 12.6.4.3 of iTunes which should install over 12.6.3.6 and, one assumes, allow iTunes to both update devices to iOS 11.3 and restore to them when required, as well as retaining the other app management features that some users want.

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If you have been running iTunes 12.6.3.6 up until now then I would go here and install iTunes 12.6.4.3. Even if that version won't update your device to iOS 11.3 it has clearly been released to support it, meaning it should be safe to perform an over the air update as long as you have a current backup.

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The engineer referred me to Apple Configurator which can reset and reinstall it.

I have found that you CAN manually install the ipsw file through iTune 12.6.4

This is the process for a passcode disabled device. Procedure may vary for non disabled.

Go to https://ipsw.me/ and find the type of the device (ex iPad), then the exact model (EX: ipad Air (WiFi) ), then select the current Signed IPSW file and click on it. Click the Download button. When the download box appears select ‘Save to File’ to download. When it finishes, locate the downloaded file. The library of the user you are logged in as needs to be visible for the next step. Move the file to the appropriate sub folder in iTunes (iPad Software Updates, iPod Software Updates or iPhone Software Updates) EX (don't include the quotes): /Users/”your home folder"/Library/iTunes/"iPad Software Updates"/”ipad_64bit_11.3.1_15E302_Restore.ipsw” (This is the iOS 11.3.1 restore file for an ipad Air)

Once the file is in place connect the device while holding its home key down and keep holding it down, device starts and eventually shows 'connect to iTunes'. In iTunes, hold down the option key and click 'Restore', then Restore and Update. You will be asked to locate the ipsw file. Do so. Boom goes the headshot. Device is erased and reloaded with the ipsw file you downloaded.

Try explaining that to your users...

Based on suggestions I found elsewhere in the net, I decided to update my iPhone 6S over the air (i.e., wireless to my router) and was able to do so while at the same time keeping iTunes 12.6.3 on my Mac. After updating the iOS, iTunes sees my iPhone correctly and appears to be syncing OK. I have not tried a backup to my computer (for now, only to iCloud) because I want to keep open the possibility of a restore if the iOS update turns out to be flawed. At some time, I suppose I will almost have to try iTunes 12.7 and hope it does not lose data I lost in my previous attempt.

12.6.3 requires iTunes 12.7.4 when trying to update to iOS 11.3 but you can just update using the iPhone X and not iTunes. There is a download for iTunes 12.6.4 although I have it I've not tried it for iOS 11.3 updater to iPhone X but I'm assuming it is built for it.

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Deploy apps in a business environment with iTunes - Apple Support

In a school system we use laptops to manage iPads and their apps using iTunes accounts for each group. Education is one of the major places affected by this PITA removal of the app store from iTunes. As of right now, iTunes 12.6.4 will NOT restore a locked device to the current iOS 11.3 So if you have a locked device you cannot restore and update it to iOS 11.3 using iTunes 12.6.4 I have contacted our Apple engineer.

My iPhone 6+ seems happy to connect to iTunes 12.6.3.6. I don't see why it would be different with say an 8 or X, but I cannot test myself. I do have an iPad Pro but I switched back to High Sierra running 12.7.4.76 after testing connectivity with the 6+ in my Sierra partition. I tend to update over the air rather than through iTunes.

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With 12.7.x backup to iTunes works much as before except that during a restore the apps are pulled directly from the app store over Wi-Fi rather than from local storage.

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annabelle wrote:

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If you think an iTunes 12.6.4 would be useful please leave a feedback to Apple

Thanks anyway to all of you.

With the feedback they got from the 12.6.x to 12.7 about app downloads

and app management, the recent move clearly indicates that those requests

were totally ignored and have no intent on returning any of those features.

Really? Then why does iTunes tell you that 11.3 requires 12.7.3? This is a bad move, I have an iPhone 10 & iPad pro that can't be upgraded again thanks to this poor decision. Someone needs to be fired but that might cause one of the millennials that work at apple to cry & need a therapy dog. Sad real sad.. Someone needs to fix this.