Do you have issues with iTunes 10?

The search box has gone when any idevice is connected. How are you supposed to find what apps to sync now, you must scroll through them all now. Why?

It looks awful too, and just feels wrong. Some people have lost all their backup data too, I have no idea what apple was thinking with this update. The UI seems more cramped generally, not so easy to navigate and lack of colours and dividing lines for menu items and music tracks seems a huge step back.

It also seems slower to me and hogs more memory and system resources as well as hanging quite often too. I've had my crashes since the upgrade too.

Apart from that it's great. ;)

Hi sidesey,

I know what you mean about the resources and the crashes. My 3GS is doing the same thing quite often, at least 3 times a day, and I use mine a lot throughout the day. I even turn it off every morning and it still crashes several times during the day.

You mentioned the search box has gone and you're right to a degree. They've moved it so it's not so easy to find anymore. It took me 3 days to find it. Look in the upper right hand corner of the iTunes 10 screen and it will say Search, just type in the name of the program and it will show up in the list on the left side where it used to be, just like before.

They also removed the total number of apps that you have downloaded to your hard drive at the bottom of the screen, and they've now got the total number of apps that you have on your device (iPhone, iPod or iPad) in the upper right corner of the apps maintenance box under the Search feature. I really miss my total number of apps on my hard drive which I used all the time and I think it was up to 3600 or so apps, because I do a lot of testing and reviews for iPhone Life Magazine and friends.

Thank you for letting us know what you've seen already and keep looking for anything else to share with the other readers.

CYL...Patrick

I am pleased you have shown me the search box, that was really so annoying, I guess I should have looked harder, but pretty sure that box was there in 9 but greyed out, so couldn't enter any text there. As everything is now grey difficult to spot. I maybe wrong though.

I always count the no of apps in the separate menu folder, so not a huge issue, don't like the flat colours of the apps, music, photos etc at the bottom though.

Good to know someone who has more apps than me, if only by a few hundred. ;)

Thanks for the tweet and reply back. I haven't heard or read one person that likes 10, Apple must change it soon I hope.

Ping seems pretty rubbish too, it would help if it was connected with twitter or at very least address book so you didn't have to type or cut and paste each email address when trying to add friends. I didn't bother.

ATB

Andy

Hi Andy,

I think the search was on the left side in the previous version above the app names and you're right in noticing that where it is now, it is grayed out and not as noticeable which is why it took me 3 weeks to find it and when I did I said to myself duh, there it is and you replied before I could post it.

Thanks for pointing out, that when you do a search, the apps listing is then broken down by iPhone, iPod touch and iPad which is very cool so that now we know which programs will work with the devices we have hooked up. And some of us have 3 or more devices. With a family of 6, that would be a great feature to use, like iPhone for mom & dad, iPod touch for the kids and maybe iPad for the family to use when they're at home so they don't have to use the iPod touch or iPhone's small screen.

In order to put the apps on a certain device, you still have to attache the device to the computer so that it shows up as connected in the devices section. Then you can put apps on the individual device and/or individual page or folder. I don't know yet if we are still limited to 11 pages yet or if we can access more. In version 9 I was able to have more than 11 pages however, they did not show up on the iPhone as pages and I had to remember the app name and us the Search option to find it and then I could tap on it and it would load. If anyone else has more information about this, please share with all of us by leaving a comment. If I get to it first, then I'll definitely share with everyone on this issue in the blog.

CYL...Patrick

I have a touch but whenever I look for apps it thinks I have an ipad and only shows ipad apps, Why?

Hi Sam,

Sorry I didn't reply earlier to your comment however, I also ran into this problem some time last year and it took a few weeks to figure out what had happened. I found out that iTunes was set on iPad instead of iPhone.

Here's how I fixed my issue. Go to the iTunes screen and under the App Store section or tab at the top of the web page right underneath the bar that contains the App Store, you should see two buttons listed iPhone and iPad. Click on the iPhone button and itunes should only show you the apps for the iPhone.

I hope this helps you and any other readers that have experience the same problem that we have. I'm not sure what happened or why however, this solution worked for me and fixed the issue that I was having.

Thanks for sharing you question with the other readers. Remember that if one person has a problem and says something about it to others via feedback, then there's most likely others having the same problem but they are too afraid or embarrassed to say something.

Thanks again

CYL...Patrick