How to Deauthorize All Computers in iTunes

How to Deauthorize All Computers in iTunes

iTunes Authorization grants the ability to access your own stuff obtained from iTunes, but each Apple ID has a maximum limitation of five computers per Apple ID that can be authorized. Because of that five computer limit, you may eventually run out of available authorization slots for an Apple ID, and a new Mac or Windows PC may be blocked from accessing purchased iTunes content until that new computer is authorized. If you have hit the authorization limit of five computers, and/or you no longer have access to a computer to , your next option is to use a Deauthorize All function instead. Using Deauthorize All will deauthorize every computer attached to the Apple ID from accessing iTunes content, unless or until those computers have been re-authorized again through iTunes. Quick side note: Many Mac and PC users wont ever notice anything about iTunes Authorization, and if you havent heard of it before then you likely have nothing to concern yourself with. Typically when a user discovers the existence of iTunes Authorization, it is because a new device or computer is locked out of accessing their own content acquired through iTunes because the iTunes Authorization Limit has been hit at 5, thus requiring the deauthorization process.

Remember, you can directly if you have access to that machine. Deauthorize All is a broad brush and not specific, it deauthorizes every computer attached to the Apple ID. You will then need to manually that you want to be able to purchased and downloaded access iTunes data from. Need to free up all authorization slots for an Apple ID? Need to deauthorize a computer you no longer have access to? You can this approach to deauthorize all computers then. Afterwards, you can start authorization individually on a per computer basis again. Heres how you deauthorize every computer related to an Apple ID: Once you have deauthorized all computers, you will need to authorize the computers you want to have access to iTunes content with that Apple ID again. This has to be done one by one on a per-computer basis through iTunes as .

Typically you will want to authorize every computer you own and use regularly with iTunes and iTunes content, whether it is a Mac or PC, so that you can access the stuff you have bought and downloaded. iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad do not need to have authorization to access the same content however, and for whatever reason the authorization requirements are for iTunes on desktop and laptops. As mentioned earlier, you do not want to casually deauthorize all computers through iTunes, since it can be a bit of a nuisance to manually authorize individual machines again. This approach is really best for when you no longer have access to a particular computer but you must deauthorize it anyway. Perhaps one day Apple will offer a method of remotely deauthorizing specific machines via iTunes, but for now the Deauthorize All method is the option for Mac and PC.