So my significant other and I share an Apple Family, as well as an Apple Card as co-owners. It's just the two of us, but I used to be in a family with my parents. I have the Apple One family plan, and I would like to share that with my family. Since my parents and two siblings are already in an Apple family, I would like to add my significant other and myself to their accounts, but I do not know how our shared Apple Card would factor into it. Would we remain co-owners if our existing family disbanded, and then similarly would members of the new family (parents and siblings) have access to the card if/when we joined them?

I'd only be joining their family account for the sake of sharing Apple One with them, but I'd like our actual credit card and such to remain separate and inaccessible to the rest of the family. I assume Apple would have safeguards for privacy and allow us to decide who else, if anybody, has access to the card, but Apple may equally assume that nobody is using family sharing with an Apple Card outside of an immediate household.

I just haven't been able to pay anything for Apple since last month. Every day I went to support and asked for an analysis, and they told me to test it again in 24 hours. I can't pay or buy anything else. I need help and I need to resolve this without help from support as they don't want to help. I've already added cards from other banks to my account, but nothing helps. I need help

I'm running an ancient Mac mini as nothing more than an iTunes jukebox. I have an extensive collection of (14,000+) of music files ripped from my decades of CDs. These are housed on an external HDs and backup drives.

It's beyond time I upgrade to a new Mac mini. Is it even possible for the current Apple Music on MacOS to read my old iTunes Library database and play those music files directly? I have no desire or need to stream the same music from Apple's servers. Much of my library is obscure and not available from Apple Music. I'd hate to have 20+ years of playlists and albums no longer available after I upgrade.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

As the title says, I have a USA Apple ID which I've used for a long time and made purchases in it and I want to activate Family Share. However, I don't live in USA, so when it asks me to input a credit card, it declines mine. The same happens with Paypal. I created another Paypal account with the Americas Region but it tells me to input a card and the same thing happens. Anyone know a solution? Of course, if I change my Apple ID country everything would work fine, I've done this before, but I lost some of my purchases.

A couple weeks ago, I upgraded from an iPhone 11 to iPhone 14 pro, and set my phone up by restoring from backup. Unfortunately, it appears that all of my non-purchased downloaded music (e.g. albums that I burned or had digital downloads for) is visible, but not playable, and I get the "this item is not currently available in your country or region" error when I try. Furthermore, it seems like some of my songs didn't even transfer/restore from backup, as I can see that some full albums I had are missing songs. If it helps to know, I don't have an Apple music subscription. I've read a little into how to fix this, and I see that one solution would be to go into iTunes (where the original files are stored), connect to iPhone, and transfer. The problem is that my PC that held my iTunes library and downloads was wiped a couple years ago, and I never got around to restoring it, so my old iPhone 11 was the only device that had my library. I have now wiped that iPhone 11 and passed it on (this was before I realized that my songs didn't transfer), so the only potential device I have holding my library is my new iPhone 14 pro. I tried connecting it to iTunes on my PC (Windows 11 laptop) and viewing the iPhone's music library through there, but it unsurprisingly shows up as empty when I do.

I still have the entire iPhone 11 backup from before I wiped it, so maybe somewhere in there is my music library, but I have no idea if I could access it that way, or if it would matter since restoring from backup didn't work in the first place. Is there any hope at getting my music back, or should I just be happy I can still view the downloads (even if I can't play them), and start using it as a list to reacquiring and downloading my library?

For some reason whenever I connect to my speaker all these iPhone Bluetooth connections come with it. It makes my speaker sound bad because my phone is connected to too many things and I can’t forget the devices. What do I do?

I spent all day loading music I own onto my brand new iPhone 16 Pro Max only to have iTunes delete it all after a sync and I got an authorization error on a song I purchased and authorized! ALL DAY!

Funny, I bought my first iPhone which was Apple’s first model because I wanted to play my music on it.

Does anyone have any advice for iTunes seamless music syncing?

Every like 5 minutes my phone automatically opens safari to this website, does anyone know how to stop this?

does it come with my apple music subscription for free or something

I’m living and working in Japan at the moment so my App Store is, naturally, set to Japan - however, I’m back in the UK for the Christmas and New Year holidays so I was wondering if there is a way to download apps only available in the UK without having to change my App Store country?

I’m the using the 3-month free trial for Apple Music so it would it mean cancelling that which I really don’t want to.

Hi, so my right AirPod seems to have stopped working suddenly and inexplicably. I’ve already tried charging for 20 minutes but still nothing. Any ideas?

Hi! I am planning on switching to an iPad from a mac but I was wondering if you can backup devices on an iPad just like how you could on a mac using iTunes. Thank you for any response.

(In my defence, I had no choice) So my iPod is stuck between the “low battery screen”, the Apple logo, and the support screen. I’ve tried to put it into recovery mode and it does not work. It won’t reset and my (updated) Macbook does not recognise it. I got it today and it worked fine until I plugged it into a windows laptop and unplugged it. The update it’s on is unknown, it’s a 30gb 5th gen model. I believe it does genuinely have battery, though I could be wrong. I’ll charge it overnight and see if that helps

Hey everyone, here's a funky one for you. I had an M1 Mac Mini, with an external hard drive for all my iTunes media and where my iPhone back ups lived. No problems backing up on the old system, I remember having to use terminal to point the backup to the hard drive etc. I just got a new M4 Pro Mac Mini with 2TB of internal storage, so now everything is on system, nothing external. I reconnect all the media, I delete the old iPhone backup and then go to do a fresh back up. iTunes/Finder tells me I can't back up my iPhone 16 Pro Max because the backup is corrupt...what? Not sure what to do. Any help would be awesome! Thank you!

Apple has been charging my card mostly everyday(not exaggerating) since October 2023 until now. I have no active subscriptions. They’re charging a card that is not even connected to my iCloud. (A few screenshots provided, that’s not even half of them) I’ve calculated and added each and every transaction and the final price is $808.86 In the span of 8 months. They’re so bold to even do 4 transactions in one day. What is going on?? At first it was only small transactions like 4.99 so I ignored it. But multiple transactions day after day, eventually adding to $800?? This sh*t is ridiculous!

For the past 4 months even after I’ve canceled my iTunes subscription, I’m being charged $3.17 for some odd reason, I can’t pinpoint any single subscription on Apple because I DONT HAVE ANYMORE!! Yet it is still appearing to be billed form “iTunes” just curious if anyone has an answer or this is happening to them as well.

I was casually rebooting the iphone in itunes and then it somehow disconected and it is stuck like that please help

This is my 4th time transferring data between phones using iTunes and the first time I noticed it didn’t back up something. I was always under the impression that it was a 1 to 1 copy, but it didn’t backup my TikTok drafts.

Is there anything else iTunes doesn’t back up? I have a few days before I wipe my old phone for a trade in so I want to make sure everything is on my new phone.

I’m also aware that Apple Books files don’t get transferred but I never used that app anyways.

So... Apparently, iTunes no functions as a means to transfer Music from PC to iPhone and the Apple Music PC App doesn't seem to work for that purpose either ( at least I haven't found out how ) which kinda raises the question of how I am now supposed to get a Song I just downloaded on PC because it wasn't available on iTunes. Just dragging a Song into Apple Music on PC doesn't seem to sync it with Apple Music on my iPhone 😑

Edit:
Found the solution in a footnote... We now have to install the Apple Devices App ( Synchronization of Files ) and use it in combination with the Apple Music App ( Importing Music and Curating Playlists ).

The song *technically speaking* isn't mine, it's a song I edited to my liking and wanted to put in my own playlist via iTunes for my own listening, but it's not recognized as a song, I'm automatically (& only) prompted with the option to add it as an audiobook, and in file kind options I only have the alternative to add it as a podcast, there is no song/music option.

I've tried altering metadata with Mp3tag, file formats such as Mp3, WAV, ALAC, AAC, none of worked. I stopped before trying PowerShell or regedit'ing.

I found an old iPad 3 and I am trying to get it to turn on. I connected it to a charger, and it didn’t turn on, but when I connected it to iTunes it shows up and says: iPad is in DFU mode. I tried force restarting, getting it out of dfu mode, and then restoring iPad in iTunes. But when I start restoring it, it just gets stuck on “Preparing iPad for restore…”

Does anyone know why and how to fix it?

I can't for the life of me figure out the solution here and everything I've seen about it online is confusing me; here's the situation:

• I used an old PC to drag and drop media files into my Iphone.
• Apparently Iphones are different from Ipods in that they can only be connected to one computer's Itunes at a time. My Iphone was connected to an old PC for a while that I've since stopped using, and I can't currently use because I don't have a keyboard for it.
• I have a new laptop, downloaded and signed into Itunes, hooked up my same Iphone to this new laptop so I could start adding songs and videos again.
• I can't drag and drop files into my Iphone on this new laptop UNLESS I erase virtually ALL media files from my Iphone so it syncs up with whatever is in the new laptop's Itunes library. That is the pop-up message I keep getting.

I just want to add to what's already on my Iphone, I do NOT want anything deleted. How can I accomplish this? Or is my Iphone now just entirely inaccessible without that old PC? What happens if someone loses all possible access to their old computers, how can they use Itunes ever again? Please just give me any solution that doesn't require downloading third party apps or paying subscriptions for online tools. I just want to get music onto my phone via my new laptop, hopefully that's possible.

So I have a $50 gift card from Apple Store which I can only use in USA but I live in Europe. What can I do? I have changed the country on my settings but is not working.