With this update, I just don’t know what the roadmap is here. Before today, I was assuming iTunes Remote had run its course and was heading towards extinction. Each of these tread on each other’s toes in different ways, but there’s not one app for everything either. There’s the iTunes Remote app, Apple TV Remote app, and the Apple TV Remote platter in Control Centre. Also, Apple now has three separate places to find ‘media remotes’. Remote controlling your Mac’s iTunes app makes little sense in an era of AirPlay 2 and HomePod speakers. Looking slighter wider, what is the point of this app existing.
Don’t get me started on the iPad version.
The transport controls don’t expand or shrink in the same way, the font sizes are wrong and Up Next is segregated into a separate modal. The Now Playing screen shadows the iOS 11 Music/Podcasts player UI but it’s only surface level. This would be okay … if the app didn’t try to mimic the modern Music app in other ways. The tab bar is still there, the Now Playing interface is in a horizontal navigation stack, and even the Search bar doesn’t use the iOS 11 integrated style. The structure of the app is still stuck in the past, a lookalike of the Music app pre-Apple Music. iTunes Remote reeks of ‘five years old’ flat design. It’s a nicer icon than the stock Music app now. It went from a white roundrect with an inscribed circle and harsh geometric triangle to a simpler coloured gradient and neatly-rounded play symbol. Rising from the ashes, iTunes Remote has been updated with a new design and support for the latest device form factors.
iTunes 12.7.5 is recommended for use with Remote 4.4. This update also includes an all-new look and feel on iPad and iPhone, in addition to stability and performance improvements.
ITunes Remote has been updated to add support for iPhone X.
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