Can't see Tones option in iTunes for Win10

Unable to see Tones option after recent update of 12.7.0.166 for Windows10. Is it a common issue after the update?
Can only see below options in iTunes menu:

- Music

- Movies

- TV Shows

- Podcast

- Audiobooks

Posted on Sep 15, 2017 10:06 AM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2017 10:13 AM

This is an intentional redesign. See Changes in the new iTunes - Apple Support for details.


In particular see the Manually add items from your computer section of Manually manage content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iTunes - Apple Support. This can be used to copy apps, books, and tones from your computer to your device.


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Sep 15, 2017 10:13 AM in response to RushiGarud

This is an intentional redesign. See Changes in the new iTunes - Apple Support for details.


In particular see the Manually add items from your computer section of Manually manage content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iTunes - Apple Support. This can be used to copy apps, books, and tones from your computer to your device.


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Oct 18, 2017 6:41 PM in response to jilx819

Management of apps, books, and tones has been removed from iTunes 12.7. See Changes in the new iTunes - Apple Support for details. The intention is clearly that management of these generally takes place on the device in future.


See the Manually add items from your computer section of Manually manage content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iTunes - Apple Support for the control that remains. This can be used to copy apps (including apps that have been withdrawn from the store), ePubs, iBooks, PDFs, and tones from your computer to your device. The File Sharing feature for copying data between apps and the computer is still there. You can also use iCloud Drive, or Dropbox to move content to and from the device.


A long time criticism of iTunes, at least from some quarters, is that has been that it has become bloated. Perhaps this is an attempt to address that. I let both my iOS devices update automatically when there is an updated app, and I'm not interested in hanging on to old apps that a developer has withdrawn, nor do I need to rearrange my apps often, so while the change is drastic, I don't think it really affects me much. I'm more irritated by the changes to iTunes U, and iBooks in iTunes for Windows.


See Deploy apps in a business environment with iTunes - Apple Support for access to iTunes 12.6.3 if you want to revert to a build with app management features. Windows users need to uninstall the current copy of the iTunes application first. See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash for steps to revert to a pre-iTunes 12.7 version of your iTunes database.



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