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iTunes 9: App Management

One of the great new features in iTunes 9 is app management; I've been begging for this one (among other things). We can now organize our pages (and pages) of apps right in iTunes, no more dragging jiggly icons across 9 or 10 screens. I'm ecstatic (and wondering what took so long).

From Apple's website:

[...] it's easier to organize all the apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, because now you can do it right in iTunes, right from your computer. Shop the App Store on your computer, iPhone, or iPod touch. Then go to your iTunes library to arrange (and rearrange) your apps and add (or delete) Home screens. iTunes automatically syncs your new Home screens with your iPhone or iPod touch.


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One of the great new features in iTunes 9 is app management; I've been begging for this one (among other things). We can now organize our...
 

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daniswas

mine doesn't work i need help i have the ner itunes but somthings wring is it possible to like turn it on or something

September 11 2009 at 9:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sebastian

That's all great, but WHY does everything have to be white now? Because of the 'Snow' in Snow Leopard? Ugly. And WHY do they have to move the artist selection to the left? It was just fine on top.
I don't get Apple's new definition of consistency. No 64-Bit iTunes, no widescreen mail but widescreen iTunes (that's just stupid, name, artist and album next to each other take up much more space than an email, yet they decide to not take it to mail, but iTunes?), base 10 in Finder but not in Terminal and the rest of the OS, the new glossy look that's iTunes only (and pretty hideous too). Just stupid. It's like those publishers who publish series of books, but change the cover design of it 5 times in the process, so instead of having a unified look on your shelf you have 5 different covers for the same series of books. Just plain stupid.

September 10 2009 at 6:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Grant Buell

I agree that the inconsistency of the new iTunes look with the rest of OS X is very strange. Snow Leopard introduced a dark charcoal look to a bunch of things, including Quicktime and the Dock right-click menus, so it's really weird that they REMOVED the dark elements from iTunes grid view etc. Some of the new UI stuff is nice though - the shadows behind albums in grid view are really nice, and I like the new iTunes Store design - but it's still strange.

Also, you can easily move the artist selection back to the top, assuming you are talking about the Browser - you can put it on top or to the left within the View menu under "Colum n Browser". You can also select which columns you want to see, which is a nice change.

September 10 2009 at 4:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sean

iTunes is still 32bit.. you would think they would upgrade it to 64bit for SL

September 09 2009 at 9:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff

If I uncheck an app in iTunes will it not sync to my iPhone but remain in my iTunes? I have a few apps I bought, don't use, and would just like to store in iTunes without having them on my iPhone.

September 09 2009 at 7:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Grant Buell

Jeff, yes, that's exactly how it works.

September 10 2009 at 4:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew

Is it me, or is there no way to back up ones app organization. If I wipe my phone for whatever reason do I have to go through the arduous task of re-app organization?

September 09 2009 at 5:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
G

2 ancient failures still not fixed, and a change in functionality.

The annoying as hell ANCIENT failures:
Changing playlists changes the pause button to stop.
Scroll wheel volume control only works over the volume slider in mini view, scrolling on the rest of the window does nothing.

Change:
Maximising from normal view changes the window size, it doesn't
switch back to mini player view. This is diabolically annoying. I want to switch back to iTunes 8 immediately cos of this.

September 09 2009 at 5:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Craft

I like iTunes 9 thus far, but there are some oddities in the iPhone syncing now (I updated to iPhone OS 3.1 as well):

1) My applications were listed correctly in the list of apps, but the management screen was completely wrong about where the apps are. It took 4 syncs before this populated correctly. Weird.

2) It removed my synced photos. So I re-enabled Photos, and picked the events again, but now there is no way to sort them yourself. Its alphabetical only. In iTunes 8.x you could drag the event up and down in the list.

3) It de-slected syncing my iCal info. Again, a simple checking of the box fixed it, but its still odd.

4) The volume control is backwards. The dark portion is on the right as being de-selected. I can kinda see how that would make sense (darker is the void, etc), but the progress bars immediately to the right work the traditional way (darker progress replaces the lighter color void). Not a big deal, just looks wrong.

The Home Sharing works awesome though. I love that.

September 09 2009 at 5:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

Is it 64bit???

September 09 2009 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Tom Craft

According to Activity Monitor, no it is not 64-bit.

September 09 2009 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robman84

Compared to developing a way of having folders like Categories, this seems like something of a gimmick. "21,178 entertainment apps, but we don't seem able to give you a way of installing more than 0.75% of them properly."

September 09 2009 at 4:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tokyo2ooo

Any idea how non-Apple software icons (Cydia, or the great CallMe) are being handled?

September 09 2009 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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