Does iOS 11.3 still works with iTunes 12.6.3

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.

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.

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.

tt2

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.

tt2

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.

select the MAC hypertext.

Deploy apps in a business environment with iTunes - Apple Support

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.

tt2

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.

tt2

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.

I'm not denying there are circumstances where managing through iTunes might have advantages, only that the data usage argument isn't so clear cut. One universal app with all of the resources for each different device is clearly going to be larger than two or three delta updates that contain only the changes from a previous build with only the resources for the particular device.

If you have a Mac then when iTunes 12.6.3.6 no longer works for you Apple Configurator 2 is an alternative option.

tt2

turingtest2 wrote:

I'm not denying there are circumstances where managing through iTunes might have advantages, only that the data usage argument isn't so clear cut. ..

For me it was never about data usage, it was about having

a copy of everything locally should an iDevice go belly up

and need a full restore and not be totally dependent on the

availability of an internet connection and totally dependent

on Apple servers being available and also not be overloaded

as to be extremely slow, stall or even stop downloads (like

none of those conditions have never happened).