Itunes Tips

Daily Tip: How to share iPhone and iPad apps you like via the App Store

By Georgia, Monday, Oct 3, 2011 a 9:27 pm

Apple has posted a short tip on how to share the iPad and iPhone apps you like right from the iTunes App Store page. If you click or tap an App Store link here at TiPb, or are simply browsing and come across something you know will interest a friend or special someone, it's great to be able to send it them via email. Here's how.

Daily Tip: How to quickly navigate to the content you want in iTunes

By Georgia, Friday, Aug 5, 2011 a 12:34 am

Curious how to quickly get to specific section or category of content in iTunes for Windows or Mac? Luckily Apple has provided convenient drop-down menus for all the major sections like Music, Movies, TV Shows, App Store, Books, Podcasts, iTunes U, and, um... Ping.

Daily Tip: How to download previously purchased apps, songs, and books in iTunes

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 15, 2011 a 10:03 pm

Heard about Apple's iCloud beta and wondering how you can use it to download all your previously purchased apps, songs, and books in iTunes? Well you're in luck, because with iTunes 10.3, it's easy (although music is currently limited to US users only. Sigh.) Read on to find out how, after the break.

[Inside iTunes]

Daily Tip: how to contact iTunes support with billing and account questions

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 a 10:03 pm

Double-billed, have a purchase you didn't make, or just have a problem with an iTunes purchase and wondering who to contact an how? There are millions of users and credit cards on file with iTunes, so every once in a while weird issues are bound to pop up. Unfortunately iTunes doesn't have a phone line to call but they do have a pretty good support team that answers e-mails and deals strictly with iTunes billing issues. Keep reading and we'll show you how to contact them!

Daily Tip: How to authorize and deauthorize iTunes computers linked to one account

By chrissyboy6969, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 a 10:22 pm

Do you want to know how to authorize and deauthorize iTunes linked accounts? If you purchase your media content through iTunes and want to play it back on different computers in your home, you are restricted to a maximum of five Windows or Mac PCs linked to a single iTunes account. If you sell, re-install, upgrade or replace a computer, you can soon run into the problem of not being able to authorize a new one, due to reaching your maximum of five. In this daily tip, we show you how to authorize a new computer, deauthorize an existing computer and also how to completely reset your five authorized computers. Read on to find out how!

Daily Tip: How to change the device name of your iPhone or iPad

By Georgia, Monday, May 9, 2011 a 9:56 pm

Wondering how to change the device name of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? When you first set up your iOS device in iTunes you get to choose its name but that doesn't mean you can't change it later. In fact, it's simple and straightforward to do so, and we'll show you how, after the break!

Daily Tip: How to fix the "app could not be found" error in iTunes

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, May 6, 2011 a 10:36 pm

Getting an error that the app you want to install from iTunes can't be installed on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad because it "could not be found" and wondering how to fix it? iTunes is a beast of a program and for all of its convenience it can be downright frustrating at times. But fear not, we suffer through these problems so you won't have to. (Or at least so we can help you fix things faster). For some tips on finding your can't be found apps in iTunes, follow on after the break!

Daily Tip: How to reclaim disk space by deleting old iOS backups

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Apr 18, 2011 a 11:55 pm

Sync and backup your iPhone, iPod touch, and/or iPad to a laptop or small PC drive, starting to run low on disk space, and wondering how you can reclaim some of it? If you consider that iOS devices can hold anywhere from 8GB to 64GB of space, and that some of us have multiple iOS devices, all that data can add up. Even though iTunes will often do incremental backups, new devices, restoring as new, updated devices, or a lot of new content can create hefty backups, especially over the course of several months and years.

If you need to get some of that space back and you're not afraid to delete files -- and you should be afraid in many cases, so consider this expert/ninja-level only! -- then follow on after the break!

Daily Tip: How to stream a podcast over 3G via iTunes

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 15, 2011 a 9:44 pm

Forgot to download the latest episode of one of your favorite podcasts before leaving the big bandwidth of Wi-Fi and curious how to get your fix over 3G? Well, TiPb makes sure our iPhone Live! and iPad Live! podcasts are under 20MB so you can download them over 3G anyway, but for longer podcasts you don't have worry either -- you can stream them. We'll show you how after the break!

Daily Tip: How to use multiple iTunes libraries on a single Windows or Mac PC

By Georgia, Monday, Jan 31, 2011 a 6:16 pm

Not keen on using one iTunes library to manage several family member's iPhone, iPod touch and iPad content and curious how multiple iTunes libraries work? While it's not exactly obvious it is fairly easy to use multiple iTunes libraries on the same Windows or Mac PC. We'll show you how after the break!

[Inside iTunes]