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Learn how to set up payment, resolve purchase issues, and access items that you’ve already bought from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store.
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Set up an Apple ID to use in the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store, and with Apple Music and Apple News
Your Apple ID is the account you use to access Apple services like the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, iCloud, iMessage, Apple Music, or Apple News. You can sign in to all Apple services with a single Apple ID and password.
Learn how to create an Apple ID
Manage your Apple ID
Learn how to manage your Apple ID and make changes to your account.
Learn about managing your Apple ID
Sign in to the iTunes Store on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV
After you sign in to the iTunes Store with your Apple ID, you can browse and buy music, movies, and TV shows.
Sign in to the iTunes Store
Authorize your computer in iTunes
Authorizing your computer lets you sync or play content that you download from the iTunes Store.
Authorize your computer
Deauthorize your computer using iTunes
Make sure that you deauthorize your Mac or PC before you sell it, give it away, send it in for service, or make major hardware upgrades.
Deauthorize your computer
If iTunes prompts you to authorize your computer when you try to play iTunes Store purchases
If you're asked to authorize your computer when you try to play iTunes Store purchases, log in to your computer with an administrator account or make sure that you're signed in to iTunes with the Apple ID that you used to make the purchase.
Learn what to do
Access your music collection on all of your devices with Apple Music
To access all of your music across your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, and Apple TV, first sign in to Apple Music with your Apple ID.
Turn on iCloud Music Library
Transfer content from your previous iOS device to your new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Set up your new iOS device from a backup of your previous iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Transfer content
Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes on your computer using USB
With iTunes, you can sync your music, movies, TV shows, photos and more. After you sync, the content on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch matches the content in your iTunes Library on your computer.
Sync with iTunes using USB
About Family Sharing
Family Sharing makes it easy for up to six people in your family to share each other's iTunes Store purchases and pay with a single credit card.
Learn about Family Sharing
Share purchased content with Family Sharing
Learn how to share your iTunes Store purchases.
Share purchased content
Use Home Sharing to share iTunes content with other devices
Share and stream content from your computer’s iTunes library to other computers, iOS devices, and Apple TVs. Use Home Sharing with up to five computers on your home network.
Share iTunes content with other devices
If you see an error in iTunes on your Mac or PC
When you use iTunes on your Mac or PC, you might see an error code or alert message. You can fix most errors with these steps.
Follow these steps
Find an iTunes error code
You might see alert messages that include specific error numbers in iTunes.
Learn what to do next
If you can't connect to the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or App Store
Check your settings and network connections to try to fix the issue on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV.
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