Your Apple account information. How to protect your data.

Something that many ask and, few know, is the configuration of our Apple account. We are going to detail this information a bit, which, in addition, will allow us to protect ourselves from the famous attacks on iTunes accounts, for example.

To enter our apple account in iTunes, we must click on "connect", which is in the upper right part of our iTunes, within the "iTunes Store" tab.

Subsequently, we enter our Apple account, followed by our password. If you do not have an Apple account, we will simply click on "Create a new account" and fill in the requested information with our data.

Once the welcome message is shown to us, what we have to do, to access all our options, is to click on the same site, only this time the word "connect" will no longer appear, but now our address will appear of e-mail.

Finally, we will enter our password again and click on the option «View account».

Now we will have access to all the options of our iTunes account.

The first of these is simply the Downloads available. It tells us nothing more, how many downloads we have pending and warns us that once we start the downloads, be they movies, music, games or applications, we can only use them in the iDevices associated with our computer. (Remember that we have a maximum of 5 iDevices / Computers for our computer, so the sixth one will not synchronize it for us)

The second tab is Personal Data. in which, there are four different configuration areas.

- Apple ID: we can change our Apple identity and our iTunes Store password

- Billing information: This is perhaps the most important point of the account, since it allows us to modify all the billing information. Including the means of payment. I recommend, to those who are not regular buyers of applications or games, to select, as a means of payment, the option "no payment method" since it will allow us to download those with a cost "free" and it will protect us from any type of attack computer scientist.

- Country / Region: Associate our iTunes account with a specific App Store. For those who do not want to complicate, select the one of the country where they live.

- Authorizations for computers. As I mentioned earlier, our computer can only be associated with 5 iDevices and / or Computers. This option allows us to disavow all and manage the new ones. Case is, for example, the moment in which we buy a new iPhone and yet we have synchronized to our iTunes account, 2 computers, 2 iPod Touch and our old iPhone 3Gs. We must disavow all of them and reauthorize the 5 that we want to have synchronized: The Mac, the PC, 1 iPod Touch, the old iPhone 3Gs and the iPhone 4.

The third tab will give us our purchase history, where we can verify the last ones and, something quite important, we can check if we suspect that someone has fraudulently used our account, verifying that they have bought it, we have actually acquired it ourselves.

The fourth tab refers directly to our Ping account, a service that, as some of you already know, allows us to share information about the songs we like and even publish it on Twitter.

The fifth tab, gives us the information of all the reviews that we have written. We will be able to reread all the comments and evaluations that we have been leaving in the applications that we have purchased. We can also manage iTunes alerts, Ping recommendations and subscriptions to continuous works, such as television series, being able to see how many events we have available.

Finally, the sixth and last tab, allows us to reactivate all the alerts on which we have clicked «do not ask again»

Remember that part of this data can also be configured from iOs and, additionally, it gives us the option to activate or deactivate the Genius for Applications service and subscribe to newsletters and Apple offers. You can access it from iOs in Settings / Store.

I hope this information can be of help to those who do not have time to research these things. We are aware that there are people who work long hours to find out these things when they get home.


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  1.   fMac said

    Be careful with the second screenshot that your login appears.

  2.   Crowns said

    Hello. In the version of iTunes x64 for windows 7, the "Authorizations for computers" section only shows me the number of authorized computers, but no button appears to disallow them all. Is it because of the W7 version? or is it somewhere else? Thanks.

  3.   franktastic said

    "Remember that we have a maximum of 5 iDevices for our computer, so the sixth one will not synchronize it for us"

    this is not true ... you can synchronize the ones you want.

    In my iTunes, I have 12 iPhones, 3 iPad and 3 iTouch synced, each with its iDevice names, each with its applications, each with its backup, each with its contacts, each one ...
    I also tell you that I have about 1500 apps (most of them paid) from the Apple Store and that I share with all my friends who synchronize with my iTunes.
    Obvious to say that of all these iDevices, only in a 3GS I have jailbroken, so that it is not said that I have not tried it.
    All my iphone terminals are free from the factory.

    Hello!

  4.   franktastic said

    «Authorizations for computers. As I mentioned earlier, our computer can only be associated with 5 iDevices and / or Computers »

    what happens is that you are mixing 2 different points.
    - You can synchronize with your iTunes all the iDevice that you want but ...
    - What you are referring to is that you can give a maximum of 5 authorizations, to 5 iTunes, from 5 different computers, to use the apps / music / ... of the iTunes user, which has nothing to do with the previous point . You have to give these authorizations on each computer.
    - When you have reached 5 authorizations on the different computers (win / mac), you can cancel all of them but only once a year, otherwise you have to contact apple directly.

    Hello!

  5.   Crowns said

    Hello. On the iTunes support page it says in one of the points:

    “If you forgot to deauthorize a computer that no longer counts, and you have five authorized computers, you can deauthorize all authorized computers at once. You can use this method once a year.

    Choose Store> View my account, and click Remove all authorizations. If you do not see this option, it is because you do not have five authorized computers. "

    Thank you.

  6.   pas-pas said

    And also in the last screenshot you have an email address to hide