iOS 8.4 Quietly Disables Home Sharing for Music

In reference to www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/07/ios-8-4-quietly-disables-home-sharing-for...:

iOS 8.4 Quietly Disables Home Sharing for Music
By Chris Mills on 02 Jul 2015 at 8:30AM

With one hand Apple giveth, and with the other, it rips a long-standing feature away with no warning.

As part of the iOS 8.4 update that brought Apple Music, Home Sharing has been disabled for iOS devices. Home Sharing would let you stream your local iTunes library from your computer to your iDevice on the same network. It was a great way to press an old iPad into service by hooking it up to your speakers, and had been an iOS feature since v4.3.

Apple quietly updated its Home Sharing support page to reflect the change, which, by the way, doesn�t affect Apple TVs.

Looks like someone in Cupertino pressed the Ease of Use button.

I have decided to cancel new features in software, not because they did not work, but because it was too difficult to explain in the documentation.

Edited by micksharpe (Thu 02-Jul-15 10:50:17)

What do you mean? It's not a new feature.

I'm guessing you don't have an iPhone.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I'm guessing you don't have an iPhone.

You're right, I don't. I know that Apple are famous for quietly removing features from their products.

Yes, [censored] mad about this. I use this quite often.
Be careful too there are loads of stories about iTunes wrecking your library, do a backup first. Mine seems to be fine but I don't use match or iCloud music.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/01/apple-musi...
Bad week for Apple users who love music.

Edited by stniuk (Fri 03-Jul-15 09:12:13)

It is because of streaming and is a condition from the record labels.

I think you just made that up

I've heard that and wouldn't be surprised. Streaming still works on pre 8.4 devices, my old iPod touch stuck on 5.1.1 still streams and of course apple tv.
Auto update has been switched off.

Well, iTunes Match still works, so does Plex. To me, that indicates Apple couldn't get it working.

Edited by deleted (Sun 05-Jul-15 11:47:40)

I don't care what you think.

In reply to a post by ian_c:

I don't care what you think.

Looks like it may be on it's way back

http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/06/eddy-cue-apple-working...