iTunes 10.5.1 password irritation

This is the correct resolution.

1. From the menu, click iTunes | Preferences (Command + ,).
2. Under the "Store" tab be certain that "Automatically check for available downloads" is deselected.
3. Close and relaunch iTunes.
4. From the prompt to log in enter your iTunes password.
5. Once logged in you will see your iTunes account name displayed in the upper right hand corner.
6. At the far right of your user name click the drop down triangle and click "log out".
7. Close and relaunch iTunes.

Your mysterious login prompt should now be history!

Using your resolution now I have iTunes starting up on it's own and crashing. The problem is that it's in an endless loop of doing this and I can't stop it! It seems that this password prompt rears its ugly head in different ways! Maybe Apple has just given up on this problem and will have it all taken care of with the release of the Mountain Lion OS (which I think is scheduled for later this month?). Very frustrated here as now this constant starting and crashing of iTunes has made using my iMac next to impossible!

Bob

Nope! Nothing plugged in! Now I got to try and see how to get out of this loop! Maybe Apple will get tired of getting constant crash reports! So far I'm up to 600 crashes since last report!

I have a fix. when it asks for your password the first time enter the wrong password until it asks you if you forgot your password. After that press cancel, and it should shut up.

really annoying and fascist. Maybe we dont want to sign in to the store ecerytime we open itunes.

This worked GREAT! thanks!!!!

SteveKnepp

This is the correct resolution.

1. From the menu, click iTunes | Preferences (Command + ,).
2. Under the "Store" tab be certain that "Automatically check for available downloads" is deselected.
3. Close and relaunch iTunes.
4. From the prompt to log in enter your iTunes password.
5. Once logged in you will see your iTunes account name displayed in the upper right hand corner.
6. At the far right of your user name click the drop down triangle and click "log out".
7. Close and relaunch iTunes.

Your mysterious login prompt should now be history!

If you do not use the iTunes music/media player to automatically load charges on to your credit card with an apple id then you may have either:

Disabled/hidden the iTunes Store in parental preferences

or

simply not accessed the tab for it in the sidebar for a while

In either case if you are getting username (so-and-so @ whatever .com ) popups on restarting iTunes asking for a password (annoyingly twice after dismissal) to enable automatic store purchase downloads it is because you forgot to log out from the iTunes Store!

Simply re-enable the view of it or select it and hit the upper left "Logout" button.

Next time(s) (henceforward) it will no longer insist on re-authorizing that partially logged out identity for the store to use.

It is an ecommerce security issue for iTunes Store to re-enable purchasing automatically, anybody could use the store as you any time your User was logged in. While this could still happen if you leave your computer unlocked while you are absent in a given session, it should/must not go on across them!!

This popup was added as a convenience to save you typing only, since iTunes closure logs you out (Apple's Store Server itself must do so). But, should a download have not completed and system or app been shutdown it simplifies any resumption of downloads, by remembering the last-used Apple User ID for you.

If a user doesn't logout, this convenience feature becomes an irritant if you don't know or haven't noticed that the store has been abandoned in this state...

Officially "Logging Out" of the iTunes Store removes that last-used Apple ID, eliminating the download-resumption-password prompts.

Has anyone who updated to iTunes 11.0.1 found that this is fixed?

It appears to be fixed for me.

I can select all options in 'Reset Safari' (v6.0.2 (8536.26.17)) and iTunes (v11.0.1 (12)) does not subsequently make password requests.

You may find it useful to follow some of the recent advice to clear historic/cached iTunes account information, and log in a couple of times before the 'fix' is fully effective.

Turn off wireless sync with iPhone and the problem goes away.

I'm having this problem for the first time today and I do not have wireless sync set up for my iphone or ipad and I do not use Safari.

Hi,

Do you use a mac or a windows pc? As far as it concerns mac, this issue is already known (I think the problem for pc is similar). As far as I found out, it has nothing to do with actually using Safari or not or using the wireless sync.

The issue is that iTunes is storing a cookie in Safari's respository in ~/Library/Cookies, and balking when the cookie doesn't exist (such as when Safari is reset) or has the wrong value - therefore, if you disable cookies generally in Safari, iTunes will be confused somehow even if you use a different browser than Safari.

For me helped the solution described by Livebox ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3493177?answerId=17995897022#17995897022 ) and to set the cookies settings in Safari to block cookies "from third parties and advertisers" (before that it was set to block "all" cookies - which caused the problem).

(I therefore use Firefox because there I can deny all cookies and it does not affect iTunes).

I hope this will help you as well.

For me, I saw this in iTunes 10.7 all the time. If I reset safari, then when I opened iTunes, it asked me for password. Since updating to 11.0.2, it doesn't ask me for password upon open, just when I want to view wishlist (which oddly I'm still logged into iTunes). So at least it doesn't ask upon open of iTunes anymore (after a Safari reset).