iPhone 5 connecting to iTunes

[CD17]

Hi I upgraded today from an iPhone 4S to an iPhone 5 as the 4S was playing up & the battery was struggling to last a day, I had the 4S since it was released, so has been really good.

Anyway when I try to connect my iPhone 5 to iTunes I get a message saying

"The iPhone 5" cannot be used because it requires iTunes version 10.7 or later, go to www.itunes.com to download the latest version of iTunes.

So I went to www.itunes.com selected download iTunes 11 & it is taking hours, is this normal, I mean about 6 hours so far. I have loaded almost all of my content music, photo's, apps etc through WiFi just the playlists won't load until I connect to iTunes.

Has anyone else had problems loading iTunes 11 ?

BTW love the iPhone 5

 

[stormchaser]

Nothing that long.
It should be quick to download/upgrade.
It's probably a PC problem but having said that I find anything iTunes related it so slow.

 

[John T]

What sort of download speed are you getting from your ISP? This obviously has an enormous effect.

 

[anaqvi786]

iTunes takes this long to download, it sucks. If you want to as of now, just backup to iCloud, and restore your iPhone 5 to that for now. Once iTunes downloads and you want to restore from a backup, you can do that if you want to.

 

[emscie]

I am having the same issue with a new iphone. Is there any way to do the restore without iTunes. I have the Oder version of iTunes and my old Mac does not support a newer version. Since I wanna get rid of the phone, I would like to test factory unlock before putting it up for sale. Or is this not necessary if unlocked by att themselves? What do I need to do? I am a girl just growing frustrated with iphone