iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed

Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode.

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After the dustup this summer about Home Sharing disappearing I didn't see it mentioned in the "thorough" review.

 

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deckeda[/url]":3dq7bktq]After the dustup this summer about Home Sharing disappearing I didn't see it mentioned in the "thorough" review.

It is back. It is tricky to find, though. In the Music app, it's in with the sorting options. When I started the Videos app, the first thing it asked was which library to use. As far as I can tell, everything works the way it used to.

Yeah, tricky to find (in the drop-down menu with "Albums", "Artists", etc.), and very hard to detect -- once you're sharing a library, there are almost no UI cues that you're looking at a shared library rather than a local one. (Most reliable way to find the answer is tap-tap back to the "Home Sharing" menu and see where the check box is.)

I have a moderately-large library (7500 tracks), and I'm happy that Home Sharing actually works now -- attempts to connect in previous versions, since iOS 5 or so, time out. But connecting is still tediously slow, taking minutes. I don't understand how both iTunes and Apple TV can offer basically the same functionality while loading in a few seconds. Sure hope the new Apple TV won't be sharing the iOS code...

Thank you both; that tells me it's not working for me yet despite being setup everywhere correctly.