You are using macos 10.11 or higher on your mac, and when you connect it with your iphone to sync with itunes, you see a notification saying “a software update is required to connect to your iphone.”. Did you already update to the latest mac os and latest ios version on your iphone? in addition, you did or did not install the public beta release of ios as well… a software update is required to connect to iphone.. I have had this crop up on a couple of macs. the first time it failed as described above, this turned out to be a problem with our internal copy of apple software update server - it worked when done directly via apple's own sus..
(macos app store doesn't show any software updates either) "a software update is required to connect to your iphone"-bug?? - iphone, ipad, ipod forums at imore.com sell your old iphone for cash!. It seems to be an itunes update that appears when a device is first connected to itunes by usb after updating to mojave. based on my experience, it doesn't appear on wifi connections, only usb, so presumably updates the required usb driver.. Question "a software update is required to connect to iphone" (self.iphone) submitted 3 months ago by imatuxx iphone x 256gb after updating my mbp to high sierra 10.13.6 it asked me to update - i don't know what - if i connect iphone x (ios 12 beta 3) to the mac..