New iPhone - old Mac compatibility?

[GGD]

The system requirements for the latest iTunes is 10.10.5 (Yosemite), one would think it could backup the old phone and restore onto the new one.

https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Software:

OS X version 10.10.5 or later
400MB of available disk space
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