iTunes update has removed app management for iDevices

Posted by: Dungassin on 21 December 2017

My grandkids are always pinching my iphone/ipad to play games which I put on there for them.

Recently I have noticed that many of the games no longer work, saying 'update needed'.  So, I duly plugged the iphone6plus into my iMac, fired up itunes, and damn it, but it no longer shows what apps are installed on the phone!

After a bit of head scratching, I searched 'tinternet and found that this functionality has been removed by Apple.  PITA.  Now you have to manage iDevice apps on the device itself.

I've deleted the offending apps and installed a couple of new (free) games for the kids to play.  But why oh why have Apple done this?  Are they just trying to make life difficult?

Just off to see if I can still manage the multiple screen layouts from itune on the iMac, just to tidy things up.

(sigh)   

Posted on: 21 December 2017 by Dungassin

Just checked.  Nope you can't manage the screen in iTunes now.  You have to do it on the iDevice itself.  Cumbersome.  When it was done in iTunes, you could see all the screens at once, and reordering was easy.  Now much more fiddly to do on the small touch screen if you've got my dad used to call "navvy's hands".

'Progress'.  Ain't it grand?

Posted on: 21 December 2017 by lutyens

dunno, my phone is running too slow to find out now! 

Posted on: 21 December 2017 by Eloise
lutyens posted:

dunno, my phone is running too slow to find out now! 

Maybe needs a new battery...

Posted on: 22 December 2017 by Derek Wright

yet another rant

Posted on: 22 December 2017 by Massimo Bertola
Dungassin posted:

 But why oh why have Apple done this?  Are they just trying to make life difficult?

 

Hi,

if this can be of any consolation, Naim, after only 45 years, has finally released an amp (three, actually) with the speakers output sockets placed in the proper position. Don't despair.

Max

Posted on: 22 December 2017 by Dungassin
Derek Wright posted:

yet another rant

True, but I still stand by what I said.  So many of these things seem to be change for change's sake rather than any benefit to the user.