Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Why is this happening, and is there any way I can fix it? The only workaround for now is to install a precedent version of iTunes see this answer and follow the rest of this answer. Go onto your computer it doesn't matter if it's a PC or a Mac and open the iTunes app. You'll get a message that says "The current version requires iOS 6. This method should at least allow you to have most apps on your outdated device.
Most of them will work, but sometimes even once you have the app installed on your it still won't run correctly. That's just tough luck. But in my experience that's not too common; apps usually work just fine. The latest iOS version your system supports is iOS 5. You could try to search for an similar application with the same features which supports older iOS versions. I did that for my favorite media application, and they included my old device as beta tester When writing a program, one can choose pretty freely how compatible it is with prior versions of iOS.
However, the more compatible it is, the less it can make use of newer versions and with that new features and new devices. In some cases, tone can only make it work with an older or a newer iOS, not both. So programmers have to move forward and exclude older versions of the OS. When an app has been in the app store for longer, several versions of the app are often stored. So installation of the app on older devices works in some cases, but not necessarily always.
If only your phone doesn't allow it, while others with the same phone and iOS version have no problems, there is something with your phone or your account - maybe also with your purchases. If others have the same issue, an older version may not be available out of security reasons, for lack of compatibility with newer online features or such. March 15, at am. Kat Jenkins says:. March 9, at pm. Elaine says:. June 14, at pm. Marbachan says:.
January 24, at pm. December 29, at pm. Rogerio says:. December 23, at pm. Graham says:. March 23, at am. March 29, at pm. Fil says:. February 27, at am. Avenged says:. February 26, at am. Nans says:. February 25, at pm. Roman Doan says:. February 25, at am. Hammer says:. February 24, at pm. McD says:. For example, Apple will not allow a MacPro to download Lion for an older Mac that still uses it. Good point, Jim, thanks!
We'll add that to the article. Have you rebooted after deleting everything? Did you empty trash? This article, and this method just helped me to re-dl the Yosemite installer.
I had the exact symptoms you list. I'm not a huge fan of using Terminal. The temporary solution to set system date to 1 Feb via terminal scares me.
If Terminal must be used, what is the Terminal command to set the date back to the real time. This is the problem I have with posters on various forums. They give the command on how to do something but fail to give the command to undo what you just did.
That's meant as a "oh, drat! The proper solution is to get a new version of the installer. Don't be scared of Terminal in this case. The command you are running can only affect the time, as long as you don't type anything other than the "date" command, you are at exactly zero risk of unintentionally performing other operations that could harm your system. Thanks Adam, but my question remains: Can you set the date and time via system preferences prior to doing the install and have it work.
Probably assuming automatic time setting is turned off , but if you're in a position where you can set up your installation environment in advance, you should just get a new installer so it's not an issue.
If you're thinking that far ahead, you'd be better off downloading the newer installer with the current certificate. But say you're booting from a USB drive because your Mac won't start up or you've put in a new hard drive, then Terminal is your only option.
Yes, I understand the best practice is to re-download the new installers. Give your readers a heads up and save them some time. If you have previously downloaded and saved the installer on a different partition or external hard drive, unmount them before downloading. If you don't, the download does not appear in Applications because somehow it knows you have it stored elsewhere.
Just lost 2 hours as a result of this. Indeed - that's why we recommend deleting all old installers before starting. Besides, you might need the disk space for the new ones! I've tweaked the article to note that external drives might have copies.
Again, those should be deleted - just ejected the drive is a start, but you don't want those old versions sitting around confusing things in the future. Having previously downloaded OS X installers on mounted external disks didn't cause any problems for me at all.
I was still able to re-download the El Capitan, Yosemite and Mavericks installers. Instead of ending up in the Applications folder, the newly-downloaded installers simply replaced the older ones stored on my external drive—saving me the trouble of copying the new installers to the external drive after download.
I like to keep different version installers — For my scenario, redownloading won't work, will it? You only get the last version of the OS installer. Unfortunately, I think you're right - you can only get the latest version from Apple, so there's no way to get a previous minor version installer as far as I know.
You might look into the command line installer tool, as mentioned in the article. I don't know if that can be used for OS X as a whole, but it might be worth some research. I hate it when those who pirate software have it easier then those of us who bought the software legitimately. I feel certain that this problem that breaks older software purchased via the Apple App store doesn't affect pirates.
The Purchased list only goes back to Jan 7, I've got installer flash drives with all the OS versions made already. Can I just replace the Installer with the new version, or do I have to reformat and install via Terminal again?
I'm guessing you can just replace the installer, but a test to make sure it works would be prudent, so you're certain it will work in an emergency situation.
So wouldn't you think Apple would put a different version number on the installers with the upgraded certificate so people would know? Interestingly, two of the new ones had the same version number as the installer on my flash drives but the new Yosemite was version 1. The 'new' installer had an older version number! Yeesh, Apple, if this is certificate issue is a real problem.
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