Showing posts with label itunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label itunes. Show all posts
Friday, April 28, 2023

iOS App Update hangs without an error message in infinite download: a general approach

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Apple's FairPlay DRM management is notoriously fragile. It can be confused by family sharing, Screen Time controls, payment method chang...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Apple's App Store Apple Account balance: updated due to transition to Apple Cash

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Update 5/1/2023 - a few months after writing this I realized Apple is in the midst of a very poorly documented multi-year transition. There ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Apple Family Sharing and reviewing family member charges

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Apple's family sharing is complex and problematic. Family member charges are paid first from the Apple Account balance then secondarily ...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

Family Sharing: all charges go to Family Organizer - UNLESS there's an Apple Account balance

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One of the drawbacks of Family Sharing is all charges go to the Family Organizer. Even if a family member has a payment method stored in the...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Migrating from an Apple Store/iTunes shared media Apple ID to a standard Apple ID configuration

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I'm putting this up as a peacekeeper. I hope one day I'll fill it in better, but if you are trying to migrate from a shared Apple ID...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Monterey orphaned our physical podcast files. What can we do with them?

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Podcasts started out as distributing MP3 files; back then iTunes was a great podcast app (and music and audiobooks, and voice memos and more...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

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I'll provide some back story below, but it's tedious and a bit ranty so I'll put the most useful stuff up front. For *reasons* (...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Things I learned switching from Spotify to Apple Music

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I'll keep adding to this list. For historic reasons going back over 10 years all my owned music is under one Apple ID and my iCloud serv...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Apple Manage Devices / Associated Devices is still kind of broken

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If multiple devices share a Store Apple ID they will show up in Apple ID Devices . They will also show in iTunes (for that Store Apple ID),...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Converting from shared store ID to Family Sharing - and what didn't work

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Maybe this worked.  Or not. See update. Our five family members have long shared one store Apple ID. We’ve done this before there was Famil...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

"This item was not added to your iCloud Music Library because an error occurred"

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This is why Apple Stores are overloaded. I have 254 items like this. No explanation, no hints on fixing it. Low quality is expensive. PS....
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Salvaging the wreck of iOS Podcasts.app

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iOS 11 Podcasts.app isn’t as broken as i Tunes mediated iPad photo transfer  or the US government, but it’s not far behind. The current vers...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

iTunes Mac to iPad photo sync is broken

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I had a longish holiday break this year, so naturally I spent part of it fighting with another technology regression .  This regression was...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Can't remove last "App" from the App Bar in iOS 11.2.1 iMessage.app? Turn screen to landscape mode.

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On my iPhone 8 with iOS 11.2.1 I was unable to toggle off the last App (YouTube by alpha sort) in my plug-in list ( what I mean ). I turned ...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Apple's Apple ID fiasco is getting worse -- declining support for Apple Store ID that is not iCloud ID

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Like many veteran geeks I have a different iCloud ID and Apple store ID. This used to be a supported configuration. In my case it was essent...
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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Podcasts.app - sync Stations between iTunes and iPhone via iCloud, not via iTunes sync

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Apple removed playlists from iOS 11 podcasts.app. I loved playlists. They were a beautiful user friendly query building tool. Instead we ha...
Friday, November 03, 2017

Did iOS 11.1 (partly) fix iTunes photo sync?

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I’m back to wired sync for photo transfer after giving up on iCloud Shared Albums . The simplicity is a relief — except with 11.0 it wasn’t ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Life with Apple: Podcasts move to streaming only

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In a move that feels as inevitable as death and taxes, Apple has made podcasts effectively streaming only. The same thing is likely to happe...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

iTunes purchased movies showing only a handful of my purchased movies

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iTunes on my Mac shows 138 movies of which 135 have purchase dates. Those 135 were purchases from Apple starting in March 2009. If I visit ...