Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
So you were using a combination of older Mac with a moderately newer iPhone. Similar to what I an doing currently. I think you are mistaken tho, I think the iMac was only capable of macOS 10.13, High
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Brent
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Peter, I researched this before I asked here. I could know find an explanation. Granted my knee jerk reaction when someone says google it is to think of many of the sources that their main goal is not
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Brent
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
I've also seen this prompt a number of times. I can't remember what OS's but it's been a number of them (both macOS and iOS/iPadOS). And yes, it happened once when I happened to plugin in my iPad
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Brian L. Matthews
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Running MacOS 13.4 on a iMac from 2009-10 cell phone was a 13pro at the time of messages. IOS 14 I believe was the first update on iPhone requesting install of patch. Robert Durnford
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Robert Durnford
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Robert, which OSes are you running on what devices? You are the first one to say they have first hands on experience. If you have mildly older devices and OS, that and the offered explanation of what
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Brent
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
In that case, it hardly bears any meaning for us to answer your question. ... Another thing: If don¡¯t look at non-Apple sources fot answers, I guess it¡¯s beacause you trust Apple more than
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Peter Rasmusen
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
I hav had this pop up several times on my iMac. I¡¯ve always installed the patch offered by Apple without incidence re workings of applications. It then only reappeared on use of iPhone connection on
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Robert Durnford
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Watching this with great interest as I have the same issue. ?I have not tried to fix it for some time living my iOS on 17.2 (in case newer iOS screws things up more) ?and my Mac Pro is running
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Eric Nelson
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
As normal, learn more was not informative. I generally don¡¯t look at non Apple related sources for answers. Brent
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Brent
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Jim is correct that it's nothing like a software update, just a small database containing the board ID's of all known iDevices that are allowed to connect. There are no changes to settings or restart
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Al Varnell
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Hi Brent, What new information do you get if you click ¡°Learn more¡°? Have you tried googling ng ahead to install the Software Update? I seem to recall that it might simply be a driver, not a major
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jwarthman
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
When I plug the phone into my Mac, this message pops up. (May be at the bottom of the post.) I chose ¡°not now¡±. If I have or open a Finder window, my iPhone appears in the sidebar. Every time I
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Brent
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
I must be missing something. Which button did you push when you got the dialog? Did you hit "Install" and do not see your iPhone in Finder or the next time you plugged your iPhone in the dialog
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Al Varnell
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Al, we have been on a couple of list, together, for the last 20 some years. I trust you and look up to you as a subject matter expert on spam, hacking and security issues. With Ben, I have less
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Brent
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
I'll see what I can do to resolve whatever conflicts you are still experiencing. Most everything you have been told is exactly correct. These updates are perfectly normal and always happen to
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Al Varnell
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Why, because I am getting conflicting information, and I want to find away to turn off the message. Brent On my late 2012 Mac mini running 10.15.7
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Brent
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Fascinating New Product For M4 mini!
So...this isn't a "recommendation", as I haven't tried this product. It's just so interesting that I thought that some folks might want to know about it. It is sort of a docking station for the M4
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Why do you need to call Apple? What problem are you trying to solve?
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Ben Rosenthal
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Re: Update is required to connect to your phone?
Here we go again, Ben. I miss understood what you wrote, but did you read the Apple Support I mentioned, https://support.apple.com/en-us/108643 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/108643>? The first
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Brent
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Re: a very simple question (I hope)
Again, option+v ¡Ì¡Ì¡Ì¡Ì¡Ì¡Ì¡Ì doesn¡¯t matter if caps are on or off Ellen
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Ellen Lerner
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