Your iCloud session has expired

It seems like it happens about every other time I reboot. I do not use iTunes match.

I am suffering the same issue, and like you I don't ( and never have ) use iTunes Match

this is starting to become annoying

Your Apple ID password is the same thing as your iCloud password. Apple ID is used for all different types of Apple services, iTunes, iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage and a few others. If you reset your Apple ID password, that resets the password for any other services that account is used with.

Having deleted Apple and iCloud cookies with to no avail, I accidentally solved the problem by merely logging into my iTunes account. (I've never used and never intend to use iCloud.)

Me too. No iCloud, no iTunes match, ever. This just started happening today although I've been buying tunes and updating my iPod all week.

I rebooted 3 times today - it happened every single time. And I have a complicated password that I need to cut and paste.

I do have a separate (older) iTunes & apps store account from my iCloud account.

What did end up working for me was not just deleting the apple.com cookies, as suggested by @JHdeVilliers, but by going in and deleting all website data. It's a pain to have to do this and re-login all your apps but it's a fix. Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Remove All Website Data... > Remove Now.

iTunes no longer continues to ask me to input my iCloud password (due to expiration it said) every time I open it.

Hi,

I had the same problem with that message and keep enter my password but never solve the problem. I found out something;

1. sign out , store> sign out

2. close iTunes

3. reset the Mac

4. open iTunes + shift key

5. store> sign in

enter your apple id and password.

done

If only my iCloud Music Library Session would expire altogether. I am also one of the VAST army of Apple users who have no desire to share music (or photographs) between devices.

I never had iCloud Music Library turned on - but every time I reboot, I have to enter my iTunes password.

I have tried numerous things turning of this and that, etc etc and yesterday I was in the apple store and asked a creative about it and we dished all the itunes preferences in my library,( which any one can do without any harm, make sure it is the library in your list), and low and behold today it has done it again.

I think it is a bug, as I too have never signed up for iCloud music and I do wish they would sort it as it is doing my head in. All I know is it has only occurred since I downloaded el capitan and also the latest up date. I also have a macbook and the latest spec.

Let us hope it gets sorted soon.

Since the workarounds stated above haven't been working for everyone (they didn't for me) here is something that will:

You need to block iTunes from calling the following:

pd-st.itunes.apple.com

The software and store will work fine without it; you can use LittleSnitch. But I agree that Apple should have found a stable solution to this issue by now.

@jhoughton4

Looked like a good idea. I denied outgoing connections to pd-st.itunes.apple.com but Little Snitch flags this up as an invalid rule.

First you need to deny all outgoing connections from iTunes.

Then when you reboot itunes you will get lots of Little Snitch notifications.

Allow all the individual connections apart from pd-st.itunes.apple.com (forever deny).

If it shows up as an invalid rule it will be because you have set some kind of general rule for your iTunes on LittleSnitch which will be conflicting with what you are trying to do. Doing it this way should eliminate this.

Many thanks jh4, that appears to have worked.