Learn about changes to Apps, iTunes U, Internet Radio, and more.
You mean, let’s see how much you’ve fucked up iTunes again?
The new iTunes focuses on music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks. Apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are now exclusively available in the new App Store for iOS. And the new App Store makes it easy to get, update, and redownload apps—all without a Mac or PC.
‘makes it easy to get, update, and redownload apps’
FUCK OFF. My iPod can’t access the bloody app store, so how the fuck am I going to re-install a fucking app via iTunes if the only solution to re-install them is to access them via the ‘purchased’ tab VIA your device?
You'll find these changes in the new iTunes:
Apps: Looking for your past iOS app downloads? Learn how to redownload apps on your iOS device.
iTunes U: Collections of iTunes U content appear in the Podcasts section of iTunes.
Internet Radio: Your Internet Radio stations appear in your music library's sidebar. Click Edit in the sidebar to show or hide Internet Radio.
Ringtones: iOS 11 supports redownloading ringtones directly to your iOS device, without the need to use iTunes on your Mac or PC.
Books on Windows: Books on iTunes for Windows are managed in iBooks for iOS. Learn how to redownload books on an iOS device.
Manage media, files, and other content on your iOS device
You have absolutely NO IDEA HOW MUCH HARDER (OR IMPOSSIBLE, REALLY), OR MORE PAINFUL IT IS to MANAGE everything on an apple device now.
It’s fucking inconvenient to not have easy access to things in your device that you can see listed so you don’t have to connect to your device every time just to view what’s already in your device. Christ.
Connect your iOS device to your computer with a USB cable to sync music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks using iTunes. You can also back up your device using iTunes.
YEAH YEAH, it’s still relatively ‘easy’ not to have issues syncing movies, TV shows and audiobooks using iTunes because those fucking things still exist on the iTunes tabs.
If you want to copy files between your computer and apps on your iOS device, use File Sharing.
Let me parse this sentence: “ We have purposely inconvenienced you so that you’ll have to rely on ‘file sharing’ *cough* iCloud to easily back up/ share/copy files to your iOS device. We have given you free space of up to 2GB, but surely people have more than 2GB of shit worth backing up so you just gotta pay up for more space because $$$$$”
You can find iOS apps, ringtones, and books (PC only) that you've already downloaded in your iTunes Media folder.
Did ya’ll purposely make this so we PC users can feel more involved in managing our files? Because this is literally shit that we already know about. Any Apple device user who uses a PC knows this shit. What is this about telling us PC users this? This isn’t a new change at all. Stop selling this as a ‘new and improved’ schtick the latest iTunes provides.
Is this to show how much more interesting it is for PC users to micro-manage their shit in their iOS device? Because this is SO not the way to do it. I’ve tried this, and it’s FUCKING annoying and tedious. Oh, btw my problem lies with apps and books mainly, the music aspect hasn’t been thoroughly fucked by Apple as of yet.
If you have an iOS app, ringtone, or book that's no longer available for redownload, you can move that content to your iOS device while plugged in to a computer with a USB cable.
Posted on 13 September, 2017 by Nate Hoffelder in e-Reading Software, iBooks, iDevice, iTunes // 26 Comments
Apple rolled out a new version of i Tunes today, and something is missing. Early downloaders reported on MobileRead, and I can confirm, that Apple has removed the iBooks section from the iTunes app for Windows.
According to the changelog, Apple now expects Windows users to manage their iBooks libraries on their iThing rather than in iTunes on Windows.
The surprise change has left a number of users perturbed:
(source-Mark Phillips on Twitter)
Apparently Apple has decided that since Windows users (still) can't read iBooks ebooks on their PC, they have no reason to manage their ebooks in iTunes. That is more than a little strange. iTunes is a media manager, and some users were storing all of their personal ebook library in the app and then using iTunes to transfer the ebooks to their iDevice.
Now they're going to have to (I think) transfer the ebooks to an iDevice's shared storage over USB using a file manager, and then tell the iBooks app to look for the ebooks in the storage. (Or at least I think that will work; I don't have an iThing to test.)
In any case, this is going to be a pain for users.
Here's the changelog for iTunes v12.7.0.166:
iTunes U: Collections of iTunes U content appear in the Podcasts section of iTunes.
Internet Radio: Your Internet Radio stations appear in your music library's sidebar. Click Edit in the sidebar to show or hide Internet Radio.
Ringtones: iOS 11 supports redownloading ringtones directly to your iOS device, without the need to use iTunes on your Mac or PC.
Books on Windows: Books on iTunes for Windows are managed in iBooks for iOS.
You start with a simple idea. A simple music player exclusive to the Mac.
It's 2000 and Apple acquires SoundJam MP and develop it into iTunes 1.0, a simple music player for the Mac. Compared to music players today it's spartan but it has everything you need to just play some music!
It's now 2001 and Apple announce iTunes 2.0 which includes some crazy nifty features like being able to transfer music to and from your brand new iPod! It also includes such futuristic items like an equalizer and cross-fading.
It's 2002 and iTunes 3.0 rolls around bringing smart playlists and volume equalization. Still no major changes to the UI, why fix if it ain't broke?
It's 2003 and iTunes 4.0 rolls out features the brand new Music Store! Why buy CD's or sift through shady LimeWire downloads when it's all available here for immediate download and 30 second samples? Simple click -> download -> transfer!
2005 and iTunes 5.0 rolls out with a sleek new interface! All the parts are still in regular old places but now they look much cleaner.
Only 2 months later and iTunes 6.0 rolls out features TV Shows and Movies! Weirdly the store is still called "Music Store" at this point.
2006 and iTunes 7 features some cleaner UI (while still leaving most everything in it's usual place) and the Music Store is now only the iTunes store. You can get Games now too!
2008 and iTunes 8 comes out, it looks good and comes with a few new features, no huge changes.
2009 and iTunes 9 comes out with some sharing features
2010 and iTunes 10 launches with it's own social network. Remember Ping? No? Nobody does. On the upside the App Store is growing in size and has gotten huge!
2012 and iTunes 11 launches and features it's first major interface change: they hide the sidebar by default. It has a dropdown selector in the corner to switch between the different media types, and a navigation pill bar at the top to switch between media sub-types. People weren't pleased. It stopped being clear how to navigate. Still with the option to restore the sidebar things almost returned to normal.
2014 and iTunes 12 launches and it fucks everything up.
The sidebar is hidden again by default, although this time it has major changes, removing items which normally reside there and giving it a different purpose than previous versions. There ceases to be an overriding, obvious logic to the user interface (something which should have been helped with a sidebar, if they hadn't fucked it up).
Labels which were normally text were reduced to small grey (often obscure) icons. Text is shrunk and thinned. Colors were muted so it became difficult to know where the emphasis was suppose to be. It's not immediately obvious where you're located inside the app. Those navigation pill-bars which were dumb but bearable with the design in the last version were embraced and fully adopted into the major interface, only without the bearable design of the last version.
Common buttons are removed or shoved into "more" menus for the sake of "simplicity". Sidebars and iPod transfers cease to make sense. Confusing option menus have to be sifted through to return things to some semblance of how they were.
TL;DR: iTunes started as a simple music player which morphed into the entire media center of the Mac (and Windows) and sprinkle on a bit of bad UI decisions and no end goal or Steve Jobs to tell you your end goal and it's not hard to see why things are pretty bad now.
iMac G4 - I received the email for the billing of a rented movie. I clicked on the link “Report a problem” and saw this. I guess they doen’t really want to hear problems.
by Kelly Wilkerson
June 29, 2017 at 04:20 PM
Categories: itunes, iphone |
I do some serious PDF hoarding in the iBooks app on my iPhone. Calendars, e-books, flyers, things I loved reading and want to read again, things I want to love reading someday in the future... it's all there in a flurry of mismatched PDF previews. It would be pretty sad to lose all my PDFs from iBooks, so today's blog post is about how to backup PDFs from iBooks.
Back in the day (circa 2014), PDF files saved to iBooks were part of a normal iPhone backup, but that is no longer the case. Since PDF files can now be synced to iBooks on your iOS device, they're now categorized as "synced stuff" and "synced stuff" doesn't get backed up. (If that is an interesting sentence to you, you may enjoy this post about iTunes sync vs iTunes backup.) Let me make sure I state this clearly: PDFs in iBooks are NOT backed up as part of an iPhone backup in iTunes. If you don't believe me, here's a reference :).
How to Back Up iBooks PDFs
Plug your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch in to your computer.
Open iTunes.
Open the "File" menu, select Devices -> Transfer Purchases from Your iPhone's Name.
How to Verify the iBooks are Saved on Your Computer
Click on the iPhone icon in the upper left corner of iTunes to look at the device specific info.
Click on "Books" in the left panel under "Settings".
See if all of your PDFs are now in that "Books" section.
A few notes:
♦ If you're using iTunes on Windows, and can't find the File menu, try pressing Ctrl+B on your keyboard to un-hide it. (The menu is no longer hidden on iTunes 12.4 and higher.)
♦ If you're on Mac, you may need to open the iBooks app on your Mac once and login there. I needed to do this back in 2015, but I haven't gotten a new computer and needed to repeat the experiment again yet.
♦ A few people told me that the PDFs didn't transfer until doing a second transfer purchases. So definitely verify the PDFs copied, and if not, try try again.
♦ If you use iBooks with iCloud drive, the PDFs that are stored in iCloud drive do not transfer to your computer. We've also seen some reports (see the comments below) that the PDFs in iCloud drive may be mislabled in your iBooks app, showing they're not stored in iCloud Drive, when they really are. Update June 29, 2017 see the section below about accessing the PDFs downloaded from iCloud on macOS Sierra and higher.
Where are My iBooks PDFs Stored on my Computer?
On Windows, the iBooks PDF files copied to your iTunes by doing Transfer Purchases are stored in your computer user's account folder, alongside your iTunes music. Here's how to find your iBooks PDFs on your Windows computer:
Go into your user account's Music folder. (On Windows 10, this would show up under This PC -> Music.)
Open the folders iTunes -> iTunes Media -> Books.
You should see your PDFs in this folder.
On Mac, the iBooks PDFs copied by doing Transfer Purchases are tucked away in data for the iBooks Mac App. Here's how to find your iBooks PDFs on your Mac:
Open Finder, and select the "Go" menu at the top of the screen. Hold the Option key (or Shift + Option on latest Sierra builds), and select the "Library" menu option from the Go menu. (On OSX Lion and above, Library will only appear with the Option key held.)
From Library, navigate to Containers -> com.apple.BKAgentService -> Data -> Documents -> iBooks -> Books.
You should see your PDFs in this folder.
iBooks PDFs Stored on iCloud Drive
On macOS Sierra and higher, if you've signed into the macOS iBooks app, your PDFs are actually available through the iCloud Drive section of your "Mobile Documents" folder. (It's likely already there before you ever open the iBooks app, as long as you've signed in to your iCloud account on your Mac.)
First, we need to make sure you've got iBooks turned on for your iCloud drive documents on your Mac.
From the Apple menu at the top of the screen, select System Preferences.
Select iCloud in System Preferences.
Next to iCloud Drive, press the "Options..." button.
Ensure the iBooks checkbox is checked.
Now, the iCloud Drive container for iBooks doesn't normally show up in Finder, so we have to manually open it in Finder using Terminal.
In the Spotlight search in the upper right corner of the screen, type terminal and press enter to open the Terminal app.
2. In the resulting boring prompt that opens, copy and paste in this bit of text and press return/enter: open ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks
3. A Finder window should pop open with your iBooks pdfs, some of which may have a cloud download icon by them. This indicates that the file itself hasn't been downloaded from iCloud yet. You can click on the cloud download icon to download the PDF. If there are multiple PDFs you want to download, hold the Command key and select the not-downloaded files; then right click on one of the selected files and select "Download".
4. Don't mess too much with the contents of this iCloud Drive container; that seems unwise. If you want copies of your PDFs to muck around with, copy and paste them elsewhere on your computer in Finder.
With the latest iTunes update, the Books tab is now missing.
Alongside the iBooks tab, ringtones and apps are missing as well.
^ The books tab on an older version of iTunes
Previous iTunes versions has made it e-books easily accessible to purchase via the iTunes books store. But all of it is missing now.
WHY IS IT MISSING?
No fucking idea. Ask Apple.
Previous versions also made it easy to transfer book files:
A drag and drop into iTunes, similar to dragging and dropping music files, and sync- done as image below demonstrates.
^ The book library in older versions of iTunes where you can segregate PDF files from other book file extensions
But as the BOOKS tab is completely missing, you can’t view the list of book-files on your iTunes that you can pick and choose to sync into your device.
Take note that attempting to search for the ebook file on iTunes would show up in previous versions, but not 12.7. Your entire ebook library is completely missing. This means you can’t view nor manipulate the book file’s metadata.
Back in previous versions, you can just
1. Drag and drop
2. Select device
3. Select Books tab
4. Choose whether to
a. Sync all books
or
b. Sync selected books
You’d have a thumbnail preview of each book cover and it was much easier to track whatever book files you had, as you didn’t need a device to be connected to view your book library.
Isn’t there a way to show the Books tab if it’s hidden?
It’s not hidden, it’s now completely removed from iTunes.
The option to show the Books tab in iTunes’ General settings had never existed, so don’t bother checking with the General tab to see if the box is unchecked.
A previous version of iTunes (on Windows) showing General Preferences:
Unlike Mac, which has had the option in previous versions of iTunes. I am unsure if this has changed for Mac iTunes 12.7; where the option for Books is now missing.
OKAY, FINE. APPLE iTUNES HAS HAD BOOKS COMPLETELY REMOVED,
SO HOW DO I TRANSFER ebooks (.PDF/.MOBI/.EPUB) files to my device now?
<<This definitely works for Windows users, am certain it should work for Mac users too, if not just as easily.>>
Thankfully, you can still transfer your book files to your device, and it’s as easy as dragging and dropping your book file. But a few steps must be taken.
1. Connect your iOS device
2. Select your device
3. Go under your device’s Books tab
4. Drag and drop book files to the selected area:
5. iTunes will auto-sync the book into your device.
6. Open up iBooks app in your device
7. Book is in device.
HOW TO PURCHASE ebooks now?
As I am not an e-book purchaser, I am not entirely certain how this can be resolved.
You’d notice that all that’s left is the audiobooks tab, but e-books aren’t audiobooks, so probably the only way to access e-books for purchase is via the iBooks application on your Mac or iOS device, not iTunes. Sorry, Windows users.
Been experiencing a lot of battery and other hardware issues with my 5th gen iPod.
‘Key things’ you have to do to prevent fast battery drain:
1. Turn off Location Services
done.
2. Disable GPS
done.
3. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when you don’t need them.
off 99% of the time anyway. I just use my iPod to read ebooks transferred from iTunes, and listen to music.
4. Close out Running Applications
I do this religiously.
5. Disable Notification Center options
Already did. Never found a use for it.
6. Turn the Brightness down.
My default brightness settings are usually 20-25%. When use at night, it’s 5%.
Doing all these hadn’t stopped the ultra-fast battery draining. It’s come to a point that my powerbank acts like a life-support for my iPod. Constantly connected to a power source so it wouldn’t die out on me in approximately 5-10 seconds after it’s been unplugged. You’d always see me holding my iPod, listening to music, the iPod tethered to my powerbank.
It wouldn’t go from 100% to less than 20% in the average use of 8-hours of constant music-playin and perhaps an hour of ebook reading. Oh no. It just takes less than a couple of minutes to go from 100% to 50%, just by reading an ebook. I’d plug it up and in 5 seconds, i’d get my battery from >20% to 50% in 2 seconds flat.
???
In a minute, I get 100% and my iPod will tell me to disconnect as it’s ‘fully charged’, I’d unplug and it’s the same shit happening again: battery dying in less than half a minute.
I’ve tried charging with Apple’s wall-plug and cable for the recommended full charge of 6-7 hours. Unplugged it after and guess what? Problem still persists.
Restoring your device isn’t going to work. This is a hardware issue. That’s a no-brainer. But what caused it? Perhaps it’s the new IOS installed, the flaky program that has bad battery life, or maybe the battery’s been overcharged, . But really, no one fucking knows. It’s Apple’s IOS.
People might tell you to reset and restore your device. My solution? Buy a goddamn new iPod.
Because the fuck are the people at the Genius Bar and the Apple stores gonna do? It’ll cost a fucking arm and a leg just to get them to change your battery, and the problems to make an appointment with them.
What Is iTunes? The 56 Things Apple's Behemoth Does
It's 56. Or maybe more. Not fully sure.
An early iTunes logo, showing its digital age.
The release of iOS 7, the software that powers iPhones and iPads, wasn’t the only major update from Apple yesterday. The company also released iTunes Radio, a Pandora-like feature which will play a stream of music inspired by a given song, artist, or album.
Which got me thinking: What is iTunes? The software dates back to 1999, when it was conceived by two independent Mac developers as Soundjam MP. Apple secretly purchased and adapted Soundjam, then released it as “the world’s best and easiest to use ‘jukebox’ software” on January 9, 2001. Since then, the software has been made to sync with iPods, released for Windows, and turned into the iPhone’s and iPad’s central connection to the computer.
Apple’s desktop operating system, Mac OS, is built on UNIX code. UNIX is an old, open-source technology, and it carries certain ideals and traditions. Early UNIX programmers developed a philosophy for the system, a preferred method of writing software. One of its tenets? “Make each program do one thing well,” wrote a UNIX pioneer, Doug McIlroy. “To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.”
But. As of September 19, 2013, here are the jobs iTunes does:
iTunes lets you navigate music files stored on your computer by parameters like song title, artist name, and album title.
iTunes lets you play, stop, rewind, fast-forward and otherwise listen to music files stored on your computer. You can play songs by a common parameter, like their album title, or you can play them randomly, by “shuffling” them.
iTunes lets you visualize music files stored on your computer with animation-creating algorithms. Some of these algorithms were in the original Soundjam program; some were added by the company in 2008.
iTunes lets you navigate movie files stored on your computer, by parameters like their genre, whether they were made professionally or filmed at home, and whether you’ve watched them.
iTunes lets you play, stop, rewind, fast-forward and otherwise watch movie files stored on your computer.
iTunes lets you navigate and organize television shows stored on your computer. (iTunes differentiates these in the interface from movies.)
iTunes lets you play, stop, etc., television shows stored on your computer.
iTunes lets you subscribe to podcasts, audio or video, with a URL. iTunes will download podcasts to your computer when they come out.
iTunes lets you navigate and organize podcasts it has downloaded to your computer. iTunes marks podcasts “listened” or “unlistened,” which it does not do for music files. It also displays podcasts differently than music files. (They include summary blurbs.)
iTunes lets you play, stop, etc., podcasts stored on your computer, like it does for music or movie files; it also provides special podcast-friendly playback features.
iTunes calls the music, movie, television and podcast files stored on your computer (which it knows about) your “library,” and it lets you share your library with other users in your network. When you share your library, other on the same local network as you can navigate and listen to files stored on your computer. They cannot download or edit these files.
iTunes lets you “home-share” your library with other users in your network. If you and another user both use the same username and password in the iTunes store (more on that later), you can navigate and listen to files stored on that user’s computer, and they can do the same to you. You can also, though, download files stored on their computer to your own computer, where you can edit them at will. They can do the same to you.
iTunes lets you organize songs stored on your computer into playlists. You choose an arbitrary number of songs to go in an arbitrary order, then you can choose to play these songs in the order you chose or you can choose to play them randomly.
iTunes lets you organize songs stored on your computer into “smart playlists.” You choose an arbitrary number of parameters, iTunes finds all the songs on your computer which meet those parameters, then it saves this list of songs. You can choose to play these songs in the order iTunes organized them or you can choose to play them randomly.
iTunes lets you organize songs stored on your computer into “Genius playlists.” You choose a song in your library, and an iTunes algorithm finds songs like it on your library which will complement each other in a playlist.
iTunes lets you listen to “Genius mixes,” which are organized ad hoc on your computer after you choose to listen to them. Genius mixes are sets of music files, stored on your computer, which an iTunes algorithm has determined are related. Often, iTunes names them and organizes them after genre or artist names.
iTunes lets you move the files from a playlist to a CD, in such a way that the CD can then be played by a car CD player.
iTunes lets you print out a list of songs in a playlist in different formats. One of these which mimics the appearance of a CD jewel box.
iTunes lets you listen to Internet radio stations. iTunes will play the stream of that radio station, which means that the sound file you are listening to is only stored briefly on your computer. You cannot edit it or download it permanently using iTunes.
iTunes lets you browse a list of Internet radio stations, organized by genre.
iTunes lets you purchase music on the “iTunes Store.” It is an exchange: You allow Apple to charge you a certain amount of money, or deduct it directly from your bank account, and in return iTunes downloads one or many song files to your computer, where it joins your “library.” iTunes organizes music by many parameters, including genre, artist title, and the number of times other iTunes users have purchased it, which makes finding attractive music files easier. iTunes also commissions performances from some artists, creating some music files which can only be purchased in the iTunes Store.
iTunes lets you rate music files available on the iTunes Store, by assigning them one to five stars or by writing your own review.
iTunes lets you purchase music videos on the iTunes Store. iTunes organizes music videos so they’re easy to find.
iTunes lets you rate music videos available on the iTunes Store, by assigning them one to five stars or by writing your own review.
iTunes lets you view, without cost, videos of the music festival Apple holds every year. The festival is called the “iTunes Festival.” You cannot permanently download these files to your computer.
iTunes lets you purchase movies on the iTunes Store. For a fee, you can download a video file to your computer and watch it whenever you like. iTunes organizes movies by many parameters on the iTunes Store, including aesthetic and economic ones.
iTunes lets you view “iTunes Extras” after you purchase a movie with which they are bundled in the iTunes Store. iTunes Extras are not available for every movie. iTunes Extras can include video which is not part of the movie, images from the process of creating the movie, and “games,” which, in iTunes, are nested interfaces intended to be navigated in a way which is entertaining.
iTunes lets you view, without cost, advertisements for films. Some of the advertisements are for films which have already been released. You cannot download the video files of these advertisements, called “trailers,” to your computer permanently with iTunes.
iTunes lets you “rent” a movie on the iTunes Store. For a lower fee than it costs to purchase a movie, you can stream a video file of it. These are some rules that govern renting: According to Apple, after you click the “Rent” button in the iTunes Store, “you have 30 days to start watching your movie and 24 hours to finish it from when you click Play.” When you rent a movie on iTunes, you do not download its file permanently to your computer, but it does become navigable within your iTunes Library.
iTunes lets you rate movies available on the iTunes Store, by assigning them one to five stars or by writing your own review.
iTunes lets you purchase television shows on the iTunes Store. For a fee, you can download a video file of a single episode of a television show to your computer and watch it whenever you like. iTunes organizes television shows by many parameters, including genre, how recent they are, and which network broadcasts them.
iTunes lets you purchase “Season Passes” to a television show. For a fee, you can pay iTunes to automatically download television episodes to your computer when the company in charge distributing the television show informs Apple they can distribute the episode.
iTunes lets you rate television seasons available on the iTunes Store, by assigning them one to five stars or by writing your own review.
iTunes lets you navigate an organized library of “apps” in the App Store, which, despite its name, is a smaller part of the iTunes Store. Apps are discrete pieces of software for your iPhone, iPad, or both. Under most circumstances, the apps can only be used on your iPhone, iPad, or both, though when you purchase them from the desktop version of iTunes, they are downloaded to your computer.
iTunes lets you download some of the apps on the App Store without cost, which is part of the iTunes Store.
iTunes lets you purchase some of the apps on the App Store. For a fee, you can download an app to your computer. (iTunes does not determine whether an app has a cost or not; the developer who created the app does.)
iTunes lets you navigate an organized library of “books” in the App Store. The books are files which can be read by a piece of software called iBooks, made by Apple, which can be download for free to an iPad or iPhone.
iTunes lets you purchase a book from the iTunes Store. When you buy a book from the desktop version of iTunes, it is first downloaded to your computer. These books are mostly text, though sometimes they contain interactive elements which can be navigated for pleasure or edification. iTunes also allows you to download a “sample” of a book for free, which lets you see some of the book but not all of it.
iTunes lets you navigate an organized library of podcasts in the App Store. The podcasts are all free, and organized by many parameters, including their popularity.
iTunes lets you subscribe to podcasts from within the App Store.
iTunes lets you navigate “iTunes U,” an organized library of “courses,” which are recorded lectures — sometimes audio, sometimes visual — uploaded by colleges or universities. iTunes U is part of the iTunes Store.
iTunes lets you download “courses,” videos and some files from “iTunes U.” Some of the courses also contain PDFs to download.
iTunes lets you pay a yearly fee to upload your music to its servers, in a service called “iTunes Match.” That music can then be listened to anywhere.
iTunes can back up the complete data contained in an iPhone or iPad. (iPhone or iPad sold separately. You cannot buy an iPhone or iPad in iTunes.)
iTunes lets you move files containing your contacts, calendars, mail accounts, and bookmarks to your iPhone or iPad, a process called “syncing.”
iTunes lets you sync apps to your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you sync ringtones to your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you sync music to your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you sync movies to your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you sync television shows to your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you sync podcasts to your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you move photos to your iPhone or iPad, but it does not allow you to move them from your iPhone or iPad to your computer. (iPhoto or Dropbox do that.)
iTunes lets you navigate the media files and software you have stored on your iPhone or iPad.
iTunes lets you play a media file, stored on your computer, on a television connected to an Apple TV device. (Apple TV sold separately.)
Aaaaand, as of yesterday, iTunes now lets you listen, for free, to a stream of music related to a song, artist or album you feed to it, a feature different from Genius and called “iTunes Radio.” (This is a different feature than Internet radio.)
Also as of yesterday, iTunes lets you listen, for free, to a stream of music it recommends to you, which is also part of iTunes Radio.
How to delete any app on iPhone or iPad: Remove Stocks, Tips, Compass, News, Maps, Podcasts, Reminders, Apple Watch app, other preinstalled apps in iOS 10
iOS 10 lets you remove unwanted pre-installed iOS apps (such as Stocks, Tips, News, Watch, Weather and Podcasts) from your iPad or iPhone. Here's how to delete or hide any app on iPad or iPhone in iOS 10, all the apps that can and can't be deleted, and our explanation of what will go wrong if you remove Apple's own apps from your device. Plus: workarounds that let you delete or hide Health, Game Center and other Apple apps in iOS 9.
How can I delete (or hide) Stocks, Game Center, Health, Tips, Calendar, Videos, Reminders, iBooks, Notes, News, the Apple Watch app and other pre-installed stock Apple apps from my iPad or iPhone? And can I permanently delete other apps, so they're completely wiped from my iTunes account?We get these questions a lot; we all hate having unwanted app icons on our iPad and iPhone screens. More seriously, unwanted apps take up storage space on your iPad or iPhone that you may need for other apps and media files.
Pixel, Phone By Google - Now Available Exclusively On A Choice Of Networks. .Apple has historically prevented iPhone and iPad owners from deleting the apps that come pre-installed on the devices: Stocks, Game Center, Notes, Calendar and so on. But that all changed on 13 September, when iOS 10 arrived for iPhones and iPads.
iOS 10 will allow you to delete most (although not all) of Apple's pre-installed apps. This is great news, and we'll tell you more about that below. If you don't plan on updating to iOS 10 there are still some tricks you can use to get round Apple's restrictions, although all are imperfect in some way - some are only temporary, some require you to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, others are handy workarounds rather than true fixes.
Here, then, is how to delete, hide or otherwise get rid of unwanted apps and app icons from an iPhone or iPad. As well as talking about deleting apps, we'll briefly mention methods to get back apps you've deleted - even if that app has since been removed from the App Store.
Here are the areas we cover in this article; jump to the bit that interests you.- How to delete pre-installed apps in iOS 10 (best solution, but requires iOS 10)
- How to hide apps (resets itself on a restart)
- How to get the hidden apps back
- How to set up a folder for hiding away unwanted apps (won't reset itself)
- How to delete apps from an iPhone or iPad (but not pre-installed apps)
- How to delete iOS apps from a Mac, so they don't re-sync
- How to get back a deleted app
- How to delete pre-installed apps (requires jailbreaking)
- How to delete pre-installed apps: non-jailbreak methods
How to delete pre-installed apps in iOS 10.
This is great news. iOS 10, which was unveiled at WWDC 2016 and released on 13 September, lets you delete unwanted, pre-installed apps. This is easily the best and most satisfying solution to this problem.
Read more: How to update your iPhone or iPad iOS 10 now.
Once you're running iOS 10, deleting Apple's own apps is easy - just press and hold the icon until it starts wobbling, then tap the X in the top-left corner. A few Apple apps still can't be deleted, but a lot can.
I have seen posting on this board, commenting on problems with iTunes music syncing. I just thought I would add my problems to the list. I sent the following to Apple feedback but I don't expect anything to come of it. I'm very disappointed with the state of music syncing in iTunes. In fact, I recently got rid of iTunes match, because I was have some of the same syncing issues with that service. I thought it would be better with regular USB or over the air syncing. Silly me. GRRRRR
I have a 128 GB iPad Air 2 and a 128 GB iPhone 6 plus. I bought the large storage capacity versions of these devices solely for the reason of being able to store a large part of my iTunes music library. Syncing is horrible. Period. Syncing over wiFi seems to rarely work. It gets to the last part of the sync cycle and just stalls. Hardly ever really finishs. When it does, the songs are not updated. Syncing via USB works somewhat better but only by a kludge of a procedure and it takes forever.
Here is a recent example of the problem. I added a few songs to an existing playlist and created a new playlist of 9 songs. The new playlist of 9 songs were bought from the iTunes Store. After an extremely long time (30 minutes or more), it tells me that I am over capacity, that I am trying to copy too much. The last time I synced, it told me I had 20GB of free space. Now it tells me that I am 20GB over capacity. The only way I can free up space is by deleting playlists and apps which I have had access to since I first set the phone up. So I go through the laborious effort of deleting apps and music to get the capacity down and finally it will sync. But then it will only add songs that I have bought from the iTunes store. The few songs that I have ripped myself, years ago, that I am trying to add to an existing playlist, will not transfer at all or sync. Finally, out of desperation, the only way to get it to sync (and I read about this by just doing an internet search for this exact problem) is to uncheck "sync selected songs, artists and playlists" and let it start removing the content. And then check the "sync selected songs, artist and playlists" checkbox and let it start adding songs back. Then the playlist that has the non-iTunes store songs will update. Sometimes even the iTunes store songs won't be added when I initially try to sync. It's ridiculous to have to go through these steps just to add a few songs to my phone.
And regarding the being over capacity when I am trying just to add a few new songs, twice now I have had this experience of it telling me that I am over capacity. I guess what I should do is completely erase all content and reinstall from the backup and maybe that will fix it but again... ridiculous to have to go through these kind of contortions just to add a few songs.
Thank you for letting me rant.
davejack , Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
registered: Jul 2, 2001
If you are brave enough to let Apple's notoriously bad Cloud services mess with your music, but if you're doing a regular iPhone/iPad sync via iTunes, when you click on the device icon, clicking on the iPhone's Music field brings up this screen, where you can choose various music syncing options.
Every time you sync your Apple device, the lyrics disappear from the [device], and you’d have to uncheck, re-sync (removing/purge all music from device), re-sync and check the box, so iTunes transfers all the music tracks back again.
1. ☐ Sync Music
2. [Sync device]
3. ☑ Sync Music
4. [Sync device]
It seems that many users are having problems in regards to viewing lyrics on Apple’s latest iOS Music app.
Probable solution being:
having to re-sync ALL songs alongside custom lyrics that were manually added.
That being said if problem still persists, there is an explanation:
According to Kirk McElhearn (author of Macworld's "iTunes Guy" column), this is a flaw in IOS 10's Music app. It therefore will need to be fixed by Apple.
(original article link) (article on tumblr)
Apple has added lyric search and display to iTunes, and this feature was available in iOS 10 betas. You could view lyrics for your own music, if you had added lyrics to the tracks, and iTunes and the Music app would look for lyrics if you hadn’t. However, in the shipping version of iOS 10, this feature has been changed. You can only view lyrics for Apple Music tracks. If your music contains lyrics that you added in iTunes, there’s no way to view them in the Music app.… I’ve added lyrics to a lot of my music, and I can view those lyrics in iTunes. I would expect to be able to view them on iOS, which I have been able to do for many years.
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