iTunes 12.7.0.166 recently upgraded on my iMac Sierra 10.12.6. Plugged in iPhone and iPads to manage organization of the apps however iTunes side bar does not show apps listed anymore. Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Photos, Info and file sharing all present.
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Rysz wrote:
Apple just released iTunes version 12.6.3 that brings back App and Ringtone management support.
See this User Tip for more details.
Read the proverbial fine print at the bottom of the doc.
Apple only supports the latest release (12.7). They are basically
saying us it at your own risk and if you have any trouble we will
not be responsible nor help. Also note the release date. It has been around
for a while.
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Sorry Jackitup, disagree with you, first of all you could have done it with 12.6, remove all apps, so no savings, and what if you have 6 ios devices like me? You need to update every device separately, so INCREASING data allowance need 6x, plus 6x more effort, time consuming, 12.7 is a pest. Erik
At least they added it back to some version of iTunes so that people who want to manage multiple devices can do it much easier. Maybe they will also reconsider it as a long standing feature hoping the usability people think about it.
Quite possibly the straw that makes me seriously reconsider switching from Apple. This is absurd! Why take away the ease of the big screen in managing apps? So having to work off of multiple devices to manager apps? Boo Apple....getting too focused on change instead of customers.
snall5 wrote:
Quite possibly the straw that makes me seriously reconsider switching from Apple. This is absurd! Why take away the ease of the big screen in managing apps? So having to work off of multiple devices to manager apps? Boo Apple....getting too focused on change instead of customers.
There is only one alternative (Android) and it is even worse!
Fantastic at least I have a way to manage devices now. I am sure with enough complaints mailed to apple us poor consumers will be able to pressure them to restore this feature as well. Someone in the usability department needs to think before they act and understand the big picture for people who manage stuff versus some cool idea they had for them and their friends
Please explain how we "Use the App Store on your iPhone and iPad to manage apps." Tapping the little apps icon in the App store window does nothing but show apps available for purchase, not apps on the phone.
Totally agree. It's an accessibility thing for me as big as my iPhone 6 Plus is, it doesn't compare to the much more easily managed environment inside iTunes for dragging things around.
The 11.x iOS upgrade amplified things as my 6Plus stutters and is not as responsive as under 10 and I tried 3 times to drag an application from a 3rd page folder to a folder on my home screen and gave up.
I also found it SO easy to delete apps from my phone. Although one can blame oneself for how they organize things, there's an app I only find by 'searching' so really wish they had a 'Open Location' type of functionality so I can easily delete it.
In iTunes, this was dead simple.
There's other reasons for considering 'other' alternatives too as I used to expel the benefit of the Apple 'system' but after struggling with Photos syncing issues with iOS/AppleTV and the ongoing issues with iOS 11 and the bigger push to iCloud (which doesn't work well with high cost data plans and expensive home (remote areas in Canada), and the form goes above functionality when coming to getting a bigger than 3TB drive with a brand new $3500+ iMac is seemingly ridiculous in today's scheme of things. But I digress.
so now I have to manually move apps around from one screen to the other versus letting it be done in iTunes? WOW
jimsliwa wrote:
so now I have to manually move apps around from one screen to the other versus letting it be done in iTunes? WOW
Isn't that so much easier!
Removing a centralized method of managing apps across multiple devices makes no sense.
I need to manage my apps and mobile devises using my desktop computer. When will I be able to do that again?
how does one revert to older iTunes, tried downloading earlier version and MacOS won't let me install it says I have a newer version.
indeed shocking decision
Well, there are people who get it! FYI, I replied that way, sarcastically, because when I say what I really feel I'd say "F.U.B.A.R.".
Thanks for the information about Apple TV.
apps missing from iTunes sidebar
