With App Store gone from iTunes after the release of Version 12.7, how can we install apps from Macbook now? Usually, when I browse through the web and I stumble across an interesting app, I can click on it's link and install it from my iTunes. Saves me a lot of time. But apparently that feature has been dropped, with the new update. Is there an alternative solution for this?
If you have an app's .ipa file on your Mac you can drag-and-drop it from Finder onto the device in iTunes to install it onto it. Or you can use Apple Configurator 2 from the Mac App Store to install apps. Or you could go back to iTunes 12.6.2
Hello, yes,
removal of apple app store from iTunes helped to streamline the app and keep it more focused on its main business but, on the other hand, we users can no longer store and update iOS apps on one computer to then sync on our multiple mobile devices, saving us huge bandwidth in any place it is a premium or we are charged by usage.
Another feature we had lost, is the ability to install/remove apps that have been removed from store (for any reason) but we had purchased and were still working good and, with the new way of sync, these apps will be lost forever.
The only options you have right now, are:
1) downgrade to latest 12.6 iTunes, but this will works until the app store still sync with it, and we don't know how much this will last, or
2) let Apple recognize they removed a feature without giving us any equivalent alternatives (see feedback link in other answers), and no, make app sync directly from our devices is not an option, see the bandwidth issues above mentioned. Just hope Apple will put that feature again as it was, in the appropriate place, that is not iTunes but maybe the Configurator app. Or even make one ad hoc app for it.
or else, when iOS app store will stop working with iTunes 12.6, you will be out of luck.
Andrea Rimicci wrote:
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The only options you have right now, are:
1) downgrade to latest 12.6 iTunes, but this will works until the app store still sync with it, and we don't know how much this will last, or
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The time of syncing apps seems to have passed. My recent
experience has shown that apps are downloaded to computer
but not installed on devices.
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2) let Apple recognize they removed a feature without giving us any equivalent alternatives...
They don't care.
sidjdev wrote:
With App Store gone from iTunes after the release of Version 12.7, how can we install apps from Macbook now? Usually, when I browse through the web and I stumble across an interesting app, I can click on it's link and install it from my iTunes. Saves me a lot of time. But apparently that feature has been dropped, with the new update. Is there an alternative solution for this?
Other than reverting back to the previous iTunes, there is
no other solution.
Also, if you update to iOS 11, it mandates you update to 12.7.
So, rolling back to a previous version is only temporary unless
you never update iOS ever again and if and when Apple makes
the decision not to allow older versions of iTunes to access the
App Store.
If unhappy, voice your opinion here:
As today I'm still able to download updates and sync/install/remove them to the devices. I wonder what blocks you from that.
What version of iTunes do you have ? It's only in 12.7 that you can't download and sync apps
App Store removed from iTunes. Now what?
