How to Navigate iTunes 12.4

Go back and forth

As you move around iTunes – between different types of media, the iTunes Store, and parts of Apple Music – click the new Back and Forward buttons to move between the store pages and views of your library you’ve visited.

Choose available views

If you never browse music by genre, say, right-click it and choose Remove from Sidebar, or choose Edit List to quickly switch multiple categories off or on. The latter is also where you can turn on the Compilations view.

Find your playlists

Playlists are in the sidebar, making it more intuitive that you can drag items onto them. Only playlists for the media type you’re viewing are shown at first; click the header and pick All My Playlists to compile different types in one place.

Recently added items

These are no longer shown at top of each and every view of your library. Instead, they’re a discrete view at the top of the sidebar. Sadly, Apple has dispensed with the manual setting that determined how far back this view goes.

View as a grid or a list

The Albums and Music Videos views now offer a list view as well as the grid of cover art. It puts items in a long, scrolling list, artist after artist. Click an empty spot in it and type a few letters to jump to an artist instead of scrolling.

Shuffle and loop playback

Before, you had to right-click an icon in the status area or go to the Controls menu for the full list of shuffle and repeat options. Apple’s sensibly split these into separate icons that you can click multiple times to toggle their settings.