Monday, October 18, 2010

iTunes Apps: Check for Updates

The process of updating the apps of your iOS device is not as Apple like as I would expect. I find the use of modal dialogs to inform the user about the result of the Check for Update operation a bit obtuse.

After clicking Check for Updates one of two things happens, ignoring any errors. Either there updates, in which case the following dialog is presented:

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In case there are no updates iTunes informs the user via:

iTunes.png

A better solution would be to present the user with the Updates available page if there are updates. If there are no updates available iTunes could inform the user using the led-display at the top, just as when informing that a sync operation has been completed.

itunes app updates.png

This way the modal dialog can be removed.