iTunes 11

How to Show the Sidebar Menus in iTunes 11

Apple already released their update in their iTunes

 software yesterday. There’s a little refining done on the graphical 

interface that is somewhat unnoticeable to the eyes of an average iTunes user.



 Overall, you might not be delighted with the updates made if you seldom use 

iTunes to purchased iOS apps, music, magazines, e-book and movies. But upon 

launching the new iTunes 11 after the upgrade is finished, I was surprised 

that the sidebar menu  is missing. I have to admit that I’m one of those average 



iTunes user that I’m really used to navigating within the iTunes using the sidebar 

menu.






So where did the sidebar menu go? In my 

frustration, I was going to write a blog post about this but when I try 
to save my work via Ctrl + S, the iTunes software suddenly became the 

I
 will 
app in focused. This incident happens because iTunes is asking whether

 download all the updates of all the apps installed on my iPad 2.

 So after receiving the Ctrl + S command that was really intended for my
 MS Word app and not for iTunes, the sidebar menu just appeared. To test

works I tried again the command and it 
 whether it really
 


just toggles to showing and hiding the sidebar menu.









A small icon located at the upper left corner of iTunes 11 can help 

bring back the Sidebar menu.





Before that happens, I’m looking for 

ways to turn everything back to normal on the Internet after the iTunes 
upgrade to version 11. But all of my efforts were futile. What I didn’t 

After clicking that icon, there’s an option to show the Menu bar. If you
notice is the small icon at the upper left corner of the iTunes 11 GUI. 
 choose that option by clicking or via Ctrl + B command, the top Menu 


bar will appear. If you will try to see what’s inside the View menu, you


 will find the “Show Sidebar” option that is also doable via Ctrl + S 


keyboard command similar to saving documents in most text or word

 processing software.




Though I’m not familiar with all the 

updates and changes made to iTunes, I really hate when developers tried 
to change how software looks or behaves. This could mean nightmares to 


 by software upgrades. A little notice will do or perhaps a pop-up 
mes
casual users like me not knowing how to cope up with the changes brough
tsage telling you that “we did something terrible that you might not 
be able to use this software again” so that you will know how to use the


 newer version.