Where is my sidebar in itunes 12.0.1.26?

Hey, when you open itunes, click where it says playlist and it the sidebar will appear. Also, then you can go to the top right corner and where that little drop down is you can change it to SONGS and have it just list all your songs instead of the big flashy album covers. They are doing some questionable things lately 😟

Hi there,

Thank you! I too was having this problem, and your solution worked — and thanks for adding the extra detail of changing the dropdown to SONGS, which was the very first thing that came up!

Close but not quite... My old sidebar listed music, apps, devices, library.... etc... now listed one at a time; not very helpful....

APPL do dysfunctional things like this to produce dysfunctional software at times. Have you submitted feedback to tell them you are not happy?

I agree its horrible - The best I can see is you can press the ... button next to music (top left) then edit, then select the icons you want to see at the top as a shortcut.

Not ideal but at least each category you use is easily accessible

Hmm,

once I connect my iPhone and click on the device icon for it up the top it shows me the sort of sidebar I'm used to - sort of. Wish they'd leave some of these basics alone!

believe me i have reached out to apple numerous times but it doesnt ever get anywhere. I would love for them to go back to the itunes where you could have the equalizer playing in the box where it shows you what songs are playing now. But my opinions dont matter much unless 5,000,000 people felt the same way. All this bright colorful stuff is to familiar with windows 8 (yuck) and ios 8 on my iphone is stillllll messed up after 12 attempts with apple at trying to fix the same issues.

I have the same concerns as all of you guys. I sent my feedback to apple.com/feedback. If enough people tell them in an organized way that we want our sidebar option back, then they may change it to allow for this option.

And to Jersey33w, though you are only one voice in a sea of many, your voice DOES matter. In my experience, Apple is one of the few companies that makes its products with our specific needs in mind. You have to keep at it though.

P.S. Jersey33w, if your phone is messed up, I encourage you to make a genius bar appointment or try restoring to a previous backup and trying to reinstall IOS 8. Keep in mind, if you are running IOS 8 on an iPhone 4S, your phone may not be physically powerful enough to fully support the operating system with fluidity. If you, like me, are super busy and can't readily make a Genius Bar appointment, you can try resetting your settings and this may help solve whatever issue you may have (Settings, General, Reset, Reset All Settings). This will not erase any data or content, but it will reset all settings back to the default. This includes wifi passwords, any privacy lock settings you may have placed on the phone (i.e. touch id), accessibility settings, possibly even downloaded keyboards. Sometimes, when you change operating systems, some of the settings get messed up along the way and resetting them helps. In my case, it was a battery issue. I hope this helps.

I kinda replied in the wrong space, but here was my reply in hopes that it can help you with your phone issues.

"I have the same concerns as all of you guys. I sent my feedback to apple.com/feedback. If enough people tell them in an organized way that we want our sidebar option back, then they may change it to allow for this option.

And to Jersey33w, though you are only one voice in a sea of many, your voice DOES matter. In my experience, Apple is one of the few companies that makes its products with our specific needs in mind. You have to keep at it though.

P.S. Jersey33w, if your phone is messed up, I encourage you to make a genius bar appointment or try restoring to a previous backup and trying to reinstall IOS 8. Keep in mind, if you are running IOS 8 on an iPhone 4S, your phone may not be physically powerful enough to fully support the operating system with fluidity. If you, like me, are super busy and can't readily make a Genius Bar appointment, you can try resetting your settings and this may help solve whatever issue you may have (Settings, General, Reset, Reset All Settings). This will not erase any data or content, but it will reset all settings back to the default. This includes wifi passwords, any privacy lock settings you may have placed on the phone (i.e. touch id), accessibility settings, possibly even downloaded keyboards. Sometimes, when you change operating systems, some of the settings get messed up along the way and resetting them helps. In my case, it was a battery issue. I hope this helps."

Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of this piece of ***** and get 11.4 back on my machine? I mostly only use it for synching my devices wirelessly and now I can't see them unless they are hardwired onto my Mac. I have a copy of 11.4 (not a dmg though) on my old disk drive, but it won't let me uninstall v12 😕
It's not just the same stuff presented differently - the whole usefulness of having a sidebar that allows you to see and manage your devices has gone completely and I want it back because that is what I use. On top of that it seems to have randomly decided to attach books for iBooks to albums in iTunes - ***?

Same issue here - sending feedback that it would be more user friendly to always display the sidebar.

The sidebar display on Playlist selection is schizophrenic, not to mention it use to be possible to turn off media sections that I didn't want to see. Now they all appear with "..." where I can turn them on/off but I've got to put up with the "..." on my menu bar.

Also having sidebar issues.

I clicked on the update for my HP printer, but then iTunes also updated. Oh Crap.

I'm in the middle of ripping my large collection of CDs to a 1T drive. On previous versions I used to make a playlist, insert a disc, select all (or some), and drag to that playlist. Why? In album view, iTunes lists all "albums" even if I've only downloaded or ripped one song from an album; a playlist per album lets me search for real albums. Also, I might drag a partial group of songs so as not to download a song I didn't like.

Can't do any of this anymore because CDs are not listed in the sidebar. Now I have to import the whole CD, import the entire CD, select it and drag it to the playlist. I tried selecting just the songs I want to import in the new version—nope. Now I have to go back in and delete the ones I don't want. Seriously? Further, when importing, I need select the import setting each time instead of just setting it to AIFF once as a preference and forgetting about it. Oh goody, one more mouse click; just what I was hoping for.

I didn't ask to update; I only wanted to update printer software. The update adds (several) steps to my process. The sidebar is less useful. The program is less flexible. I even keep looking for a blue icon and now it's red—I'll get over it, but what was the point of that change? What was the point of ANY of these changes? Apple employees may find it fascinating to screw around with their products all day; I just want to get something done. If it ain't broke, don't "fix it".

"This update includes many design and performance improvements that makes iTunes easier and more enjoyable to use." No, not really . . .

Was just getting ready to update to iTunes 12 but decided to check out the reviews first. Glad I did. The sidebar is the only thing that keeps me sane in iTunes. I won't be upgrading to 12 until Apple brings it back. (Hope I won't be waiting forever!)

I wish I had looked at the reviews. Now I can't work out how to get rid of thing bloody thing 😟