Filed under: iPhone, App Store
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.
Gallery: iTunes 9 App Management
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
[Tre,back and NOT LEAVING no matter how much you want me to] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] said 2:53PM on 9-09-2009
You guys are torturing me.
I WANT MY iTUNES 9 AND I WANT IT NAWWWWWWWW!
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cycladic said 3:06PM on 9-09-2009
App organization? Hooray! Dragging the squigglies is NOT good enough for OCD types like me.
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AndyF said 3:08PM on 9-09-2009
Loaded iTunes 9 up, anticipating this very feature... and it doesn't work. The management window doesn't appear. Just a big empty white space. Will re-sync my Touch again just to see if it needs additional encouragement, but it will be a little disappointing if this turns out to be a bug.
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StPaddy said 3:09PM on 9-09-2009
likely requires 3.1 for iPhone and 3.1.1 for iPod Touch
Ukie said 3:10PM on 9-09-2009
Try updating to firmware 3.1 first
Niels K. said 3:10PM on 9-09-2009
You need OS 3.1 as well for that feature
Buran said 3:28PM on 9-09-2009
I am not installing a firmware update without a working "don't update the baseband, too" tool if the baseband does get updated by this update. Thanks, Apple, for screwing over those of us who want freedom of choice - -AGAIN.
MichaelN said 4:11AM on 9-12-2009
Thank god it's not only me. I restarted my iMac 10.4.1 re-installed iTunes 9 and still IT DOES NOT work #$%! I get the left side list of apps but the right side is completely blank.
Tried submitting a request to apple support w/serial #s and finally the last page to get a phone call time request and it tells me: "Were sorry please start over your request" MOTHERF*#$er
needless to say i'm a bit pissed. if anyone figures this bug out please let us know :-)
pardthemonster said 3:10PM on 9-09-2009
It might require 3.1 which is available now.
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Saxon said 3:14PM on 9-09-2009
Is it just me or is the iTunes 9 UI much worse than 8? It looks like they went glass crazy and everything is super shiny. Also they changed the background color to white for icon view, which looks horrible for videos and apps. :-/
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snobordr720 said 3:31PM on 9-09-2009
+1. I want an option to go back to black.
jln said 4:36PM on 9-09-2009
yep. The glassy look is really disappointing, imo.
Dion said 3:33PM on 9-09-2009
What's up with the "Music" and "video" icons on the screenshot's above?
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Martin said 12:29AM on 9-10-2009
iPod Touches have those icons, but iPhone's don't.
Karl said 3:38PM on 9-09-2009
Dragging admittedly sucks, but ... I'm now at the point where I have to choose what to delete before I buy/install a new app.
Hard limit of 11 pages sucks. Hard to say "there's an app for that" when you follow it up with "... but it's at home in iTunes".
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Adam S said 4:29PM on 9-09-2009
There are tricks to enable more than 11 pages[1], but either way, you can just keep installing apps, you just have to access them via Spotlight.
[1] http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/08/11/iphone-ninjary-11-home-screens-iphone-30/
Caribou said 4:51PM on 9-09-2009
Very few people have gotten that multi-page trick to work, it seems. I tried it unsuccessfully when it was first posted, and am still not having any luck even following the newly posted suggestions.
Marc C said 5:04PM on 9-09-2009
Just downloaded new iTunes at work and my first complaint is why did they take away the minimize function from the green button?? Now it just resizes the window and you have to go to the View menu to minimize.
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Wayne said 3:51PM on 9-09-2009
I would love to see the ability to delete Bookmarks from the interface in iTunes. But any application management in iTunes is better than none.
At least Apple keeps a pulse on what people want to see.
@Karl You can add more apps then there are pages, you can then launch the App using Spotlight on the iPhone/iPod touch.
I am 99% sure this works. Well it did last time I tried.
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ranova said 3:55PM on 9-09-2009
this is still useless with so many apps.
Some random developer made stacks with jailbroken iPhones, how hard is it for apple to implement something from their OWN OS?
Even categories on jailbroken iphones is better than 9 pages of apps
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