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- The program was initially developed on Mac OS 9, but OS 9 support was discontinued with the release of iTunes 3; in addition, no version of iTunes has supported a non-NT based Windows release such as Windows 98 or Me. ITunes for Mac is property of Apple Inc.
- The program was initially developed on Mac OS 9, but OS 9 support was discontinued with the release of iTunes 3; in addition, no version of iTunes has supported a non-NT based Windows release such as Windows 98 or Me. ITunes for Mac is property of Apple Inc.
Old Versions of iTunes available to Download. And supplied with Mac OS X. ITunes is compatible with computers running Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows XP,. Often the simplest way is to start an FTP server on the Mac running a modern Mac OS X release and then using an FTP client like Fetch or Archie on the much older Mac to directly download the packages to the older computer. That would require some local networking however, but if the older Macintosh is directly connected to the internet already they could always just download the package files directly too.
iTunes 12.7 was released on the day of Apple Event on September 12th, 2017. And this new iTunes version is fully compatible with the iOS 11 software update. After updating to iTunes 12.7, you may don’t like it because it removed App Store, or you meet some iTunes problems such as iTunes keeps crashing and iTunes invalid response. Therefore, you want to have a downgrade.
Related Reading: The full list of iTunes problems you may meet
However, Apple official website doesn’t offer its users the method to downgrade iTunes to previous version. So you have to follow other methods to remove current iTunes version and reinstall the previous. In this post, we gives you some methods to downgrade iTunes app on Windows and Mac computer step by step. And these methods is said to also work for iTunes 12.7 and iTunes 12.6.
How to Downgrade iTunes on Windows 10/8/7:
- Uninstall iTunes completely, including all components like Apple Mobile Device Support and Apple Application Support. Sometimes when you cannot uninstall these iTunes components, you can try again after disabling anti-virus software, Windows User Account Control and some repairing software.
- Go to C:/Users/[PC Name]/Music/iTunes, and change the extension of iTune Library .itl to iTunes Library.bak.
- Restart computer, download iTunes previous version and install previous version.
Note: you can google “iTunes old versions” to find more iTunes in old versions.
How to Downgrade iTunes on Mac/MacBook/iMac:
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- Quit your iTunes and iTunes Helper process by using Activity Monitor on Applications > Utilities > Memory.
- Go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal and enter the command sudo rm -r /Applications/iTunes.app
- Download previous iTunes and reinstall your iTunes on your Mac.
- Rebuild your iTunes library.