Rearranging apps in iTunes 12.7

bjfrombaltimore wrote:

This is b.s.

Do you have a technical support question? I'm not sure what you are referring to when you make this statement. We can't help if you don't ask a question with some content.

If the people at Apple had a real computers/OS, they would never think in these directions.

They changed my all my i devices to imap from POP without asking.

They turned on all my location settings and ran out my data plan in 2 days.

They modify the less than popular itunes to what someone in a rubber room thinks makes computer sense.

It's becoming a real pain to spend days UNDOING either Apple incompetence and ATT's incompetence. I'd like to bill back all the time on the phone that I've spent. I get comments like "they should have never set this up this way" and find I have to start square one from 8 years of things working just fine till Apple decides to do it all another way.

One in 10 of the on-line/phone people know what they are doing the rest should go back to either Walmart or McDonalds, they're not helping the cause.

Its B.S because managing a phone with 30+ apps, using touch-hold-wiggle-move method is just not workable.

Restoring from a back-up is becoming less and less useful these days as the official recommendation from geniuses is to reset to factory and install apps one by one, to avoid some unknown corruption issue.

I have just gone through this exact thing, and have 5 screens of unorganized apps. I started to arrange them, but soon gave up after 30 minutes. I've given up, and just use springboard search now.

Except now you can't update to iOS 11.3 if your still using an older version of iTunes. I just tried and got the message that I need to update to iTunes 12.7 before updating my iPhone or iPads to 11.3

This really *****

gib

I COMPLETELY hate that Apple chose to remove this functionality from iTunes. The program has become progressively more and more counter intuitive, for all that Apple tends to be the opposite. But in terms of managing app screens on your phone, a previous poster was absolutely spot on. It is often very difficult to find apps in groups on your device, then holding them down and moving the edge of the screen, often overshooting your destination. It's cumbersome at very best.

You are absolutely correct!!!!!!!!! I made several comments on this but they were deleted because they were 'critical' of programming. Surprised others I have read are actually more critical than mine? Anyhow..good luck to all on this, hope they act on this issue in some clever way because everyone is not happy how its gone.

robbinewmanphoto wrote:

You are absolutely correct!!!!!!!!! I made several comments on this but they were deleted because they were 'critical' of programming. Surprised others I have read are actually more critical than mine? Anyhow..good luck to all on this, hope they act on this issue in some clever way because everyone is not happy how its gone.

You seriously must have meant to reply to someone else. I am happy that Apple is starting to remove the bloat from iTunes.

Apple doesn't remove posts because they're critical. They remove them because they violate the Terms of Use. The usual causes are rudeness and ranting. It's quite possible to be critical and polite. For example, I think that Apple took a nice little program, SoundJam, bought it and, over time, made a mess of it as they tried to get it to fill more and more roles. I think that was a mistake and resulted in a program that was less usable than it should have been. You will note that I didn't call anyone names. I stated my opinion about what Apple did, not about the skills or abilities of the people who work for Apple.

"Removing bloat from iTunes"

A key feature, such as the ability to set up the desk tops of pages and create effective set-structures for effective access is hardly bloat. I know that you had to say something to Robbin, but you overlook the desire of users, who pay for apps, to be able to control the arrangement of them. Not like this is a new idea - many would simply like to be able to do what they used to be able to do.

The idea is to use Wi-Fi connected to your broadband, not your cellular data.

tt2

NONSENSE!

I currently have 12.7.1.14, and there is no app tab. This is very annoying. I have a lot of apps, and I want to be able to rearrange them on my iMac, not on the iPhone / iPad.

Are you using custom font or DPI settings? Setting these to default may fix the display issue.

tt2

I don't believe I'm using anything "custom." There is a slider on top of the page that makes the overall display smaller (4 pgs/row)/larger (2 pgs/row). Has no effect on this though.