Do you still sync apps via itunes?

iOS
#36

There are some things which don’t show up after they have been removed. Stanza (ebook reader) is a case in point.

#37

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#38

Little bump for this thread. With the advent of iOS11 and itunes 12.7, you will no longer sync apps and ringtones via itunes. Well, you can still do it manually by dragging an app or ringtone from Finder onto your phone in itunes, but the actual sync functionality is gone. I wonder if the bell is tolling for itunes.

#39

Could be. Apple wants us all to be streaming Apple Music with our infinite data allowances and infinte funds. Not for me. Seriously if iTunes (or other music apps for using your own music) disappear, so, probably, will I.

#40

I stopped syncing apps long ago mostly because they were bloating up my HDD but mostly because it just wasn’t needed anymore.

I use Google Play Music I do still have some music synced from my iTunes library which is handy if I’m offline (which is almost never).

Ring tones… well I do actually have a few custom ring tones, all hand made, except one, and that’s the only one I would want to keep. My ring tone (since day 1 of the 3G) is the iPhone Ring from the original TV ad in the US. Why that isn’t a stock tone I don’t know. Seriously I’ve had the same ring tone (and message tone) forever… I’m old and like it that way :stuck_out_tongue:

#41

The removal of the app store from iTunes my be the last straw for me and make me move to Android.

I find browsing and buying apps painful on the iPhone or iPad so I think my love affair with Apple will now be over.

Bye bye, it was fun while it lasted by after almost 10 years it’s time for me to move to Android and back to Windows and avoid the Apple tax and (what are for me) stupid changes to usability along with abysmally high prices and crippled upgradability

iOS 11 is out
#42

I think that, until every time I update my Windows Bootcamp.
Then, when I see how long it takes, I happily retreat back to the MacOS!!

#43

Luckily apparently you can still sync apps over manually if you have the file downloaded which is good, sad Apple had to make things more complex though.

#44

Good god. It hasnt happened yet. Has it?

#45

Happened with yesterday’s release of iTunes 10.7 :o

#46

With multiple iOS devices and a family account it is better to download once via iTunes and then sync devices, yes?

#47

Bugger. I havent updated. Guess I wont. Well not yet anyway

#48

In the not so distant past that used to be our issue too, especially for large apps, since our internet speed was so terrible.

Then Apple brought in App Caching through MacOS Server which meant once it was downloaded once everyone got the local copy (which was brilliant!) so the problem largely went away for all those shared apps and OS updates. If you have lots of iOS and/or Macs around this is a pretty good option if you have bandwidth/quota concerns.

Then came auto updates and things tended to happen overnight when things were connected to power so it didn’t matter if things trickled in slowly.

These days I’m lucky enough to be on unlimited 100Mbit cable and it’s not something I even think about anymore :smiley:

#49

All going to be moot now, eh, with the apps disappearing from itunes?

#50

This is such a bummer for me. I am on mobile broadband. I update the apps for 2 iPhones and 1 iPad on the Mac and then sync. I haven’t updated iTunes yet and will keep it that way as long as I can.

Kevin

#51

my iOS devices when synced with the mac don’t seem to be properly updating all apps in an older version of iTunes anymore anyway.

#52

I think it was a bad move to remove the App Store and App syncing from iTunes. I know many people don’t use it and that fine, but there were many people who did.

It should have been a user option on whether apps synced and backed up using iTunes. I have to manage 6 iOS devices in the house and downloading an app only once for all my iOS devices was great for me.

The main thing I will miss though is being able to browse the App Store on my iMac. It was so much nicer to see the apps on a large screen rather than on my iPhone.

Hopefully the App Store can return sometime, maybe not in iTunes, but as a stand alone app like the Mac App Store.

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#53

I agree, but for slightly different reasons. I don’t particularly care that Apple removed app syncing from iTunes, it wasn’t a huge deal for me, but the removal of the App Store now means that I cannot browse apps from my Mac.

I can’t click on an affiliate link on my Mac and buy an app when I’m reading a review on the web, which is cutting an already limited revenue stream for many Apple blogs, this one included. Forcing people to browse iOS apps from an iOS device — I honestly can’t think of a reason why Apple would want to.

I use the iOS version of the App Store so infrequently I’m not even sure if you can see the same information that used to be in the iTunes Store from your iPhone/iPad, but one thing that will go away is browsing iPhone/iPad-specific apps. The iPad App Store gets both, but on iPhone, it’ll only show you iPhone apps, AFAIK.

This was not the move I was expecting when people were clamouring for iTunes to be less bloated. Here’s hoping the iOS App Store comes back to the Mac someday.

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#54

Also, if I’m writing a review, a task I often do on my Mac, how the hell am I supposed to get the link for an app? Use the universal clipboard feature? Email the link to myself?!

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#55

Yes, not a lot of thought seems to have gone in to this change as there is a large amount of ill feeling around it from a large number of people - even more so than the removal of floppy drive or optical media (it’s getting right up there with the headphone socket removal :smile:)