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Peter5678 Author

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Firewall keeps asking permission for iTunes

I have the following happening, everytime I start iTunes: My Firewall, the one in Mac OS 10.6.3 (turned on), keeps asking me if i want to give permission to iTunes to allow for incoming connections. I answer with yes, and iTunes appears in the Firewall preferences screen as being accepted. But every following time i open iTunes, I get the same question.

iTunes works fine, but this is just annoying. I tried restarting the Firewall, adding the programs manually, same result.
As I think the Firewall should be on, this will just keep happening and in time will really start to annoy me.
Does anyone have this same problem, and more importantly,... does anyone have a solution??

Kind regards, Peter

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3), I love my Mac

Posted on Apr 27, 2010 4:07 AM

36 replies

Mar 3, 2012 8:32 AM in response to DnCstl

Thanks DnCstl, you fixed a very annoying problem with a very simple solution.

kriss13

Level 1

4 points

Sep 17, 2012 4:55 PM in response to Peter5678

Thanks a ton.. deleting itunes and reinstalling resolved the nag.

seems faster also naw 🙂

Jan 16, 2013 5:26 AM in response to Peter5678

Found that HomeSharing was the culprit. It hasn't been asking for permission since I turned home sharing off.

Files>Home Sharing> Turn off.

For me there wasn't any need to re-install iTunes.

I'm using Mountain Lion.

May 9, 2013 6:28 AM in response to DnCstl

it worked for me for one time after I removed it from the list. But everytime I opened iTune, it seems to write itself back into the Allowed List so the annoying ask for permission prompt appears the second time I start iTune! I am on OS10.6.8 and iTunes 11.0.2.

Oct 6, 2016 12:00 PM in response to DnCstl

This fix is still working on El Capitan! I recently upgraded iTunes to 12.5 and got hit with this problem. Removing the redundant entry in the firewall prefs fixed it. Thanks!

Oct 6, 2016 12:03 PM in response to kevinfromport angeles

Oops, not so good. Like Lamstones I found that it only worked once!

Firewall keeps asking permission for iTunes