IPhone/Mac/iTunes Confusion

I've had a MacBook Pro for a few years, but I recently got an iPhone. I'm trying to figure out how to put music from my mac to my phone. When I plug my phone into my mac, it says the iPhone cannot be used because it requires iTunes version 11.1 or later. So I searched for updates in iTunes and went through all the steps, it downloaded the update and restarted my computer. When I went to open iTunes again it looked exactly the same. I plugged my phone back in and the same message popped up. I'm not sure what I did wrong. Please help!

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