Qualify or deauthorize your computer for iTunes Store purchases

Learn how to authorize your computer to play your iTunes Store purchases, deauthorize a computer from accessing your iTunes Store purchases, and check how many authorized computers you have.

  • What you need to know nigh authorizing your figurer
  • How to authorize or deauthorize your Mac
  • How to authorize or deauthorize your PC
  • Yous can authorize up to five computers at a time to play your iTunes Store purchases.
  • Each computer that you authorize counts equally one authorization — fifty-fifty if you lot authorize the aforementioned reckoner multiple times.
  • If yous have 5 authorized computers and desire to authorize a new computer, you have to deauthorize i of your computers.
  • You tin can only authorize a reckoner that you have admission to. Yous tin't qualify a computer using another reckoner or an iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on.
  • You tin can authorize your Mac in the Apple Music app, Apple Idiot box app, or Apple Books app. Once yous authorize your Mac in i of these apps, y'all can access all of your iTunes Store purchases.

How to authorize or deauthorize your Mac

  1. Open up the Apple Music app or Apple tree Tv set app. In the menu bar, cull Account and make certain that yous're signed in with your Apple ID.
  2. Choose Account > Authorizations, then cull Authorize This Computer or Deauthorize This Computer.
    Apple Music app showing the Account menu, Authorizations, and Authorize This Computer.
  3. Sign in with your Apple ID and password. Forgot your Apple ID?
  4. Click Authorize or Deauthorize.

See how many computers are authorized

  1. Open the Apple Music app or Apple TV app.
  2. Choose Business relationship > Business relationship Settings.
  3. Sign in with your Apple ID and password. Forgot your Apple ID?
  4. At the top of your Account Information page, look next to Computer Authorizations to encounter how many computers are authorized.
    The Apple Music app showing the Account Information page

If you need to deauthorize a computer that yous don't take access to

To deauthorize a figurer that you don't have access to, you lot accept to deauthorize all of your computers. So authorize each calculator that you lot accept again. You tin can deauthorize all computers only once a year.

  1. Open the Apple Music app or Apple tree Television set app.
  2. Cull Business relationship > Account Settings.
  3. Sign in with your Apple ID and password. Forgot your Apple ID?
  4. At the top of your Account Information page, go to the Apple ID Summary section.
  5. Next to Computer Authorizations, click Deauthorize All.
  6. Authorize each calculator that you use again.

How to authorize or deauthorize your PC

See how many computers are authorized

  1. Open iTunes.
  2. Choose Business relationship > View My Account.
  3. Sign in with your Apple ID and password. Forgot your Apple ID?
  4. At the elevation of your Account Information page, look next to Computer Authorizations to run across how many computers are authorized.
    iTunes showing the Account Information page

If yous need to deauthorize a computer that you don't have admission to

To deauthorize a computer that yous don't have access to, you have to deauthorize all of your computers. Then authorize each computer that yous have again. You can deauthorize all computers but in one case a year.

  1. Open iTunes.
  2. Cull Business relationship > View My Account.
  3. Sign in with your Apple tree ID and countersign. Forgot your Apple ID?
  4. At the top of your Business relationship Information page, become to the Apple ID Summary department.
  5. Side by side to Computer Authorizations, click Deauthorize All.
  6. Authorize each reckoner that you utilize again.

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