iTunes 8, 9, 10: How to Hide or Show Ping (or Genius) Sidebar

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iTunes versions 8 and 9 contained a genius sidebar that displayed related music in the iTunes store. With iTunes version 10, this sidebar has been replaced with the Ping sidebar. Here is how to hide (or show) the sidebars related to these features.

This tutorial has now been updated for versions eight, nine, and ten.

Although I like the genius playlist creator in iTunes, the genius sidebar was just a huge advertisement. I suspect many users did not use it; and thus, with version 10, iTunes has replaced the genius sidebar with the Ping sidebar.

Not surprising, many users will not want to use the Ping Sidebar either.

With version 10, here is how to hide (or show) the Ping sidebar:

With versions 8 or 9, this will hide (or display) the Genius sidebar:

With either one, just pressing the marked icon will either expand or contract the sidebar.

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11 Comments -

1. JM said on October 9, 2008

   Thanks!!!! what a relief…
   got pissed off searching for it! lol

2. Spendabuk said on November 24, 2008

   how do you hide it permanently? it keeps coming back each time i start the app

3. mints said on February 6, 2009

   THANK YOU!

4. Anonymous said on September 17, 2009

   common sense? wowz lol….

5. io said on August 30, 2010

   thank you :D

6. Ballsnall said on September 28, 2010

   this brings up the ping sidebar not the genius sidebar now.

7. Anonymous said on September 28, 2010

   Thanks! I’ll update the post.

8. EJ said on September 28, 2010

   Is there anyway you can bring the genius sidebar back if you have the itunes version 10? I REEEEAAAAAAALLY liked that feature :(

9. Dan said on September 29, 2010

   Yeah, I liked Genius – very handy if you don’t follow bands much.

10. Rich Allen said on October 3, 2010

    So, is the genius sidebar gone TOTALLY? I loved finding new suggestions for music that way. Is it somewhere else I can find in iTunes?

11. Northway said on October 16, 2010

    fully agree – what a shame and what a commercial error

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