I have now got an iPhone 6s, upgrading from my 5s. The Macbook I usually use and which has my iPhone backup is a 2008 running Snow Leopard, the latest it can use. Can’t use any later OS apparently. The drill is normally to use the iPhone 5s backup on my laptop to set up the new 6s - but iTunes tells me that I need a ‘newer version of iTunes’. Trouble is that iTunes 11.4 is the last I can use on my Macbook. Newer iTunes want a newer OS, but I can’t install that.
I thought this might be a problem, so I used iExplorer to load all my songs onto a more modern Macbook which does have a newer iTunes. But there weren't ways to transfer the apps and I can’t otherwise sync it (and thus keep my apps) because it is synced to this Macbook. I know I can re-download the apps, but there is one in particular (the best Backgammon app by far for IOS) which is no longer available but which I want to keep. So what do I do? If I try to sync the 5s to the more recent Macbook, it tells me it will erase everything. That doesn’t matter with the songs because they are already on it.
Can I physically transfer the backup to the second Macbook (put it on a USB stick, for example) then transfer it to the 6s? I reckon there is too much stuff to send it all the way to iCloud.
Any suggestions?
I thought this might be a problem, so I used iExplorer to load all my songs onto a more modern Macbook which does have a newer iTunes. But there weren't ways to transfer the apps and I can’t otherwise sync it (and thus keep my apps) because it is synced to this Macbook. I know I can re-download the apps, but there is one in particular (the best Backgammon app by far for IOS) which is no longer available but which I want to keep. So what do I do? If I try to sync the 5s to the more recent Macbook, it tells me it will erase everything. That doesn’t matter with the songs because they are already on it.
Can I physically transfer the backup to the second Macbook (put it on a USB stick, for example) then transfer it to the 6s? I reckon there is too much stuff to send it all the way to iCloud.
Any suggestions?