OS. And the new App Store makes it easy to get, update, and redownload appsall without a Mac or PC Apple. Starting with this version, manage all your Apps from the App Stores Purchased Tab on each device. However, transferring files to Apps via i. Tunes remains. So you can continue to use i. Tunes File Sharing the same way as previous i. Tunes versions. Additionally, i. Tunes continues to back up all your i. Devices, in just the same way. BUT, you are no longer able to browse the App store directly within i. Tunes or sync Apps to ANY i. Device. Theres a lot of confusion about whats changed and what you can and cannot do. So lets look at a few tips and tricks to get you started with i. Tunes 1. 2. 7. Related Articles. How Do You Go About Re Downloading an App that you had purchasedItunes Movies For Ipod Absolutely Anything FullRe downloading Apps will need to be done on your device itself. If you are looking for Apps on your Mac. Book, you will need to open the Mac App Store. Click on Purchased at the top of the window and you will be able to re download your apps from here. Similarly, you can re download your prior App purchases on your i. OS device by opening the app store app. Tap on Updates Purchased My Purchases Not on this i. Phone. Tap on the little cloud icon to re download the app onto your i. OS device. How do I transfer Custom Ring Tones to my i. Phone using i. Tunes 1. The new i. OS 1. 1 allows users to download new ringtones directly onto their i. Phone. On your i. Phone, go to Settings Sounds Haptics, then tap on any sound. At the top of the page, tap Download All Purchased Tones to check for any previously purchased tones not currently downloaded to your device. Please note that Apple does warn that you may not be able to re download some previously purchased tones. If you have custom ringtones on your i. Tunes, you need to transfer them to your i. OS device manually. Drag and Drop the new tone from the i. Mac Tones directory under i. Tunes Media into the Tones section of On My Device in i. Tunes. Tones is towards the bottom of the list. Once you have transferred, click on Sync so that they are moved to the i. OS device. On your i. Phone, choose Settings Sounds Ringtone. Here you confirm the custom ringtone you just transferred over. Are My Media Files Still Available on the new i. Tunes 1. 2. 7 Your i. Tunes media files music, podcasts are still available in your i. Tunes Library Files. On your Mac, use Finder to retrieve these files by going to Go Home Music i. Tunes and on Windows the file path is C UsersusernameMy Musici. TunesHave Outdated Apps or Custom ContentIts all there, just hidden in your i. Tunes Media Folder. Look in these locations for those apps, media, ringtones, or other content Mac UsersusernameMusici. Tunesi. Tunes Media. Windows 7 or later Open C UsersusernameMy Musici. Tunesi. Tunes Media. So if you have an app or other content in your i. Tunes media library that is not available for re downloading, you can use your computer to manually transfer these files onto your i. OS device. Once you find the app file, drag and drop it on your device in the i. Tunes sidebar. Use this same process to manually add your custom ringtones, books, and other media. If youre updating to i. OS1. 1, this version no longer supports 3. OS 1. 1 or anything higher. To learn more, Apple offers a white paper that shows you how to do this. How do I transfer my own content such as movies to apps like VLC Player In order to do this, you probably need to use the File Sharing feature in the new i. Tunes. When you connect your i. OS device to your computer running i. Tunes, click on the device and on the left hand column, you find File sharing. Watch Loud House Movie The Movie Full Version there. Clicking on it will reveal the Apps that can transfer documents between your i. Phone and computer. You should probably be able to use Infuse or VLC here to move content. Hide and Unhide Your App Purchases With i. OS 1. 1With these updates to i. Tunes AND i. OS 1. New App Store, its easy to not find what you need, in particular, your past App purchases are very hard to locate. On top of that, for some reason, in i. OS 1. 1 Apple now allows you to hide purchased apps from your App Store. And its no longer dependent on having Family Sharing turned on or not. To find your purchases, open the App Store and tap your profile photograph or icon to open your Account Details. Scroll down and locate the Purchased section, tap on that to reveal your purchases and any connected family members purchases. Once done, there are two tabs for appsAll and Not on this i. Phone. Hiding apps is easy, just swipe on the app to reveal the Hide function. But Unhide Apps Okay, were perplexed. We use to unhide apps using i. Tunes. But after this recent update to i. Tunes 1. 2. 7, that function is gone. And so far, even in i. OS 1. 1, its not replaced within the App Store App or via Settings on your i. Device. The only way weve figured out is to download it again using the search function and it does show up again. But then none of your data from the hidden app transfers Its like starting an app from scratch. Were hoping that Apple fixes this problem really soon. Its a big surprise for those of us that hide apps and use i. Tunes for our app management and syncing. And yes, an unwelcome surprise. Where Are My Podcasts Some folks report that items in their Podcast drop down menu are grayed out. Others find that their Podcast Library is completely gone. And often, folks are even unable to subscribe to any podcasts through the Podcast store. Still, others find that their entire podcast library disappears after updating to 1. Tunes. Often this results in a blank screen, even when attempting to download a podcast. If after updating to i. Tunes 1. 2. 7 youre not seeing your Podcasts, expand your i. Tunes Window so it fits full screen. Then look for the blue Continue button. Click that button to go to your Podcast library. If that isnt working, a workaround is doing a search for a particular Podcast within the i. Tunes tab for Podcasts. At that point, they show up in the dropdown list of your search results. You Cant Sync Apps with i. Tunes Anymore. We like the idea of the change BUT this was not properly executed. You can no longer browse or search i. OS apps on your Mac using i. Tunes. And all app management is now conducted via each device, including syncing between devices and rearranging apps on your screens. It appears you may not be able to unhide your apps in this new version. If you have not yet updated, consider un hiding the apps before you upgrade to this new version. Tough on Family or Work Managers. If your the designated family i. Device manager or manage your workplace i. Device apps and updates, i. Tunes 1. 2. 7 is bad news. In previous versions, you only had to download an app ONCE and then install it in seconds via i. Tunes because the apps already on the hard drive But 1. OTA over the air. And that adds a lot of time to your i. Device management There are some options for folks that manage apps and content if they do not connect to the internet or have spottyslow internet. Mainly, Apple Use provides the tool called the Apple Configurator. Learn more about how to use this tool by visiting Apples Configurator site. Challenging for Persons with Limited Internet Access.