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iTunes Back Button Functionality Broken

I'm in iTunes 12.5.4.42.

In previous builds, the Back button would take you, logically, back to whichever screen you were on prior to the one you're currently on, and it would continue to do so if you kept wanting to move backwards.

As an example, let's say I'm building a playlist.  I'm in my Library, and I create a new Playlist.  Let's call this my starting point.  Next,  I click to the Browse tab, taking me to Apple Music (We'll call this Page 2).  I perform a search for an artist, landing me on a results page (Page 3).  I click the artist's name, landing me on the Artist's page (Page 4).  I scroll to Albums and click "See All" (Page 5).  I click on an album, landing me on that album's page (Page 6).  At this point, I'm previewing songs and using the ellipses to add them to my playlist.

At this point, if I click the back button, where should I land?  Obviously, I should be back at our (Page 5), the Albums page for that particular artist.  As of now, it's a crapshoot where I'm ending up.  Most of the time, it seems to be taking me back to Browse, or the Apple Music landing page, my (Page 2).  Sometimes it's taking me back to the Artist page, my (Page 3).  There's no rhyme or reason.

Previously, iTunes remembered your path sequentially, just like a web browser, which makes the most sense.  In the above scenario, I could even click to my Library to view the playlist while I was building it, and then use the back button from that page to head straight back to the album I was working from.  Now, when I go to check my playlist and hit the back button, I'm forced back to the Browse landing page.  I have to re-search for the artist, re-choose the artist from the search results, re-click "See All" to view all of the albums for the artist, relocate the correct album, and continue.  I have to do this every time.  And, on an even more basic level, I have to perform the same set of tasks when I'm simply trying to go back to the full list of albums for that artist.

Now, obviously, I can use the "Go to Artist" feature to shorten this up, but I'm using a feature that was intended to make something else easier (namely, "Oh, I like this song, let's see what else this artist has to offer.") to attempt to put a band-aid on a feature that, up until now, worked as expected.

Apple, please fix this.  And by "this," I don't simply mean this godawful oversight of a coding error; I'm referring to your somewhat sudden and massive drop-off in software quality control.   If you're having trouble finding people who truly understand the nuance of user experience and are willing to take the time to get it right, let us know.  I've never worked in the software business (I run my own restaurant, and if my quality of service made as much sense as your recent UX QC I'd be out of business by now), but your community is filled with people who possess a level of attention to detail that we used to idolize your company for.  The magic of Apple was always that you didn't get these little things wrong.  There's a reason that your old "it just works" mantra has become a bit of a joke over the last few years.  You're missing the little things, consistently, and it's so disappointing.  Fortunately for you, your competitors haven't even caught up, in these regards, to where you were years ago.  Unfortunately for you, rather than keeping your lead or building it, your sliding back in their direction and pushing out software that simply doesn't show the polish we've all come to know and love.

If your higher-ups are using this software on a daily basis, I sincerely hope they're standing in meetings with the designers and coders and demanding they do better.  If you need someone with a bit of common sense to walk into a room and give a three hour presentation entitled, "Come On Guys, You Have to Be Kidding Me With This Nonsense." say the word and I'll put together a Keynote.

Hi Foolgladly,

That's a great writeup. You should send this to Apple. (We are just a user forum.)

In iTunes, select from the menu: iTunes > Provide iTunes Feedback. They really do read all these things, I'm told.

Cheers

Seriously, what on earth. I'm browsing through an artist's albums on Apple Music. I click an album to see which tracks are on it. I have no way to go back to the artist page. It's insane.

This cannot possibly be an unusual use case. How has this not been fixed?

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