iTUNES WITHOUT APPS

Our household has four iOS devices. That means everything has to be downloaded four times. How can Apple possibly think that is a good idea? I can only hope that either Apple or someone else is urgently writing an app for the Mac and PC which will do for apps what iTunes used to do. BY T IRISH

GRAHAM SAYS…

The background to this letter is that Apple has recently issued an update to iTunes which has removed the ability to access the App Store and backup apps from iOS devices. It does mean you’ll

now have to install apps on your iOS device, which is going to be a bit more work for some, if they have multiple devices. However, people have been complaining for ages now that iTunes has become a bloated mess, trying to do too many things at once. So, we’re generally in favour of Apple slimming down iTunes’ functionality a little bit. MISSING ISSUE

As my post is unreliable and I like to browse an actual paper magazine, I collect my copy of MacFormat each month from WHSmith; availability used to be in the first days of each month but this has gradually gone back into the last days of the previous month.

So, having got the August (#315) and September (#316) issues, this week I bought what I thought would be October (#317) – but on the cover there’s no Issue 317 and no October. Instead, it reads: ‘Issue 318 Autumn 2017’. What’s happened to October (#317)? BY COLIN STEVENS

GRAHAM SAYS… Sadly you’ve missed an issue, Colin. The October issue (#317) featured our ‘Get to grips with iCloud’ article. See p76 of this issue to order a copy. It might also be a good time to chat to your postie and consider a subscription to MacFormat. That way, you’ll save money and never have to worry about missing an issue again! See p40.