In Tahoe, how do I move the play controls in Music?

Well that’s truly sad news and quite honestly a deal breaker for me.

I absolutely will NOT be upgrading to 26.1 on the back of this news.

I’ve been a loyal supporter of Apple for over 40 yrs and have seen them destroy what was once a brilliant app called iTunes and an app that I used daily.

Over recent years and particularly since it morphed into Apple Music the classic version has become an afterthought.

They should have kept the streaming app separate from the personal library player.

I only use an iMac and have never owned an iPhone and still use an iPod Touch 2 for travelling so the optimisation for that platform doesn’t work for me.

After updating to 26.1 this wonderful terminal commant doesn't seem to work anymore ... so unfortunately I've got the godawful UI back again ... Using Pine player now, and it's a shame I don't even want to use my apple music subscription in Tahoe environment. Hope very very very hard someone comes up with another command, or better, that apple wakes up and realises this UI is working very, very bad for lots of music lovers.

I just upgraded from Sequoia to Tahoe 26.1 Upon running the Music app I saw the current playing controls were at the bottom, tried like heck to figure out how to put them back on top of the Music window without success. Decided to search for an answer and ran across this post :-(

I hate hate hate this being at the bottom and that it's also hard to see when it's white against a white-ish background with no apparent border. Why? Why was it changed? Was there a problem? Did they change just for the sake of change with no apparent improvement? Looks that way to me. I regret moving to Tahoe. I use the Music app a lot to play my library of songs and am always in the main Music window. I know people just say you'll get used to it but I don't want to without there being an offsetting benefit and I can't find one. Where is Jobs when you need him????

.. .. and now that I've been using Tahoe a bit, I see they moved controls to the bottom of the screen in many of their apps and moved the Send button in MacOS Mail to the upper right. Ok, these seem like small changes that one should just get used to but I simply fail to see the benefits of their moves. I can get used to the Send button but moving the controls to the bottom of the screen is horrible.

In Mail on my phone, the Search field and other buttons at the bottom of the screen either cover up the dynamic status of fetching mail or they eliminated it so now I open Mail and have to sit there and wait and wait and wait to see if it actually pulls any new mail in because the status is gone and I can't tell what the app is doing.

Changing the user experience in a negative way promotes severe hesitation about making these, supposedly beneficial, updates.

Same same same! In my formatting of my screen full of my commonly used apps, I always had Music on the top center, showing what song I am listening to (and a quick access to get there), as well as the fact that I'm missing a few other Music features I liked better in the old version. LOVED your workaround I found last week-until I decided to update my computer-WHY DID I DO THIS????? I was hoping for some better improvements for the aspects I don't like, and it seems like some were fixed, but some were made worse, like this. Ugh. If anyone figures out a workaround, or how to at least move the music bar up to the top, it would be appreciated!

Until then, looks like I'll be dreading utilizing Music....

TOTALLY AGREE with all of the users who are upset Apple screwed up a perfectly good iTunes interface on the Mac. I want the currently playing song at the top and a way to show it in the larger method as well. But Apple has screwed up something they always did well again.

I have subsequently found that the Mail dynamic activity/status is now at the top left of the screen just below whatever inbox you happen to be in, my last post said Apple eliminated it so I wanted to update my post. I still don't like what they did and want the dynamic status back at the very bottom where it used to be. Why are they messing with things that had no issue??? There is no added functionality, no larger print or icons so why move it???

Apple, pls put things back to where they were in Mail and Music

Confirmed the command turns off liquid glass but can't change the location of the controls. this is a terrible design decision for macOS users - just inexplicably bad. I'm sure someone at Apple is testing this and I like to think someone is challenging these UI decisions.

I'm certain Steve Jobs would take one look at this and give you the hairdryer treatment over such rookie mistakes with the UI. Why is there some much empty space and why are playback controls on top of the music list? I will take any logical explanation as to why this is an improvement.

EDIT: Posted to wrong thread, sorry.

I left the following feedback: "Please restore proper playback controls, and put them back on the top of the screen. Hiding the volume control and other basic, necessary functions behind a click? Madness! Occluding those controls with content? Also, please remove History from More madness! The new UI requires more attention, more clicks, and longer mouse swipes to do anything. Terrible."

I should have added that the using the Filter control is no longer reflected in the song count or play time.

Who approved the design change that moves the play controls to the bottom of the page? It’s obvious whoever made this decision doesn’t use the app regularly. As a long-time user of iTunes/Apple Music for over 20 years, this is honestly one of the worst UI changes I’ve seen.

Not only does it clash visually with the content behind it, but it also makes the playback scrubber almost impossible to see — and it was already too small to begin with. This change makes the app harder to use, not better.

Leaving this comment in the hope someone at Apple actually takes notice.

Don't forget to mention that the time is now hidden as well... The only way I've discovered to see it is to move the mouse to hover over the scrubber/progress bar.

The angst around this has nothing to do with "hating change". The changes have made it more difficult, less functional to use the music app on macOS.

Also, this is not an issue about the control bar being at the bottom vs top either. Although, that is annoying and seems like a change without benefit; it is the visibility of useful information and navigation of the controls that is the real irritant.

What's also very, very frustrating is the dissapearance of the fixed sound volume slider

Working, playing Nine Inch Nails, nice and loud via external audio setup ... phone rings ... pick up phone ... have to look for volume down buttons in Music, since playing via USB interface doesn't let me use the systems sound volume settings ... have to look twice ... have to click twice in the bottom corner of my wacom ...

Why on earth did the apple design team also remove the fixed sound volume slider we had in previous versions?

Yes and no, I'm not Gen Z ... and been on forefront of innovations with apple since my Quadra 800 (1996) ... but this one ... apple?

PUT IT BACK! ON TOP! WITH THE REST OF THE CONTROLS! PLEASE! (sorry for the not so passive agression)

Thanks in advance!

Wow, I thought I had hit a wrong button. Then, I find out via this thread it's SUPPOSED to be there. I have no words to describe how bad of an idea this is. It looks like 5 bells struck and everyone blew outta there and forgot to finish the app. "Introducing our new OS! It called 'Oh Well.'"

For goodness sake Apple - STOP CHANGING THINGS FOR THE SAKE OF IT. You have just driven me away from Music to another app. Tahoe is a disaster. If you want to offer these changes, make them optional, so that users can choose.

I know, I was really hoping for them to put it back the way it was before Tahoe so I did the upgrade to 26.2 only to be very very disappointed. In fact, it's even worse than it was in 26.1 as they once again moved the controls in the mini player thereby causing even more clicks just to get to the airplay and volume control.

Apple is certainly moving in the wrong direction with these changes and it's causing me to go out and source a different music player for my local music files. Just awful.