Turn off iTunes Match Permanently, and....

This is a user-to-user forum. No one from Apple participates. However, turning it off on the server side wouldn't help you. Try holding down the Shift key while clicking it off.

Thanks!

Won't let me :turn off" only gives me the option to "turn on" Match even though it is already on --HELP- Message to Apple/Cloud -- it doesn't work so please turn it off!!

OMG! There's no "Turn Off iTunes Match" under store, it just says to turn it on, yet there is still a cloud next to music and I still can't get my music into itunes! I've literally been trying to figure this out for 6 hours.

Have you tried signing out of iTunes?

Jim

@Jimzgoldfinch Yes I tried signing out of itunes. A couple of times actually.

@TaraLeeSav if the menu says "turn on" then that means iTunes Match is not enabled. The cloud you see next to Music is most likely because you have the option to "show iTunes purchases" enabled in iTunes preferences. This is a service called iTunes in the Cloud which allows re-downloading of purchased items directly in the iTunes Browser. It is not iTunes Match.

In iTunes goto File > Add to Library

From here you can access the iTune files you have stored on hard drives.

Just hit the button. easy as.

May be Apple can be more forthcoming in dealing with us who only want iCloud/iMatch 'on the side'.

Instead we are served with the whole enchilada. Uncool and unlike Apple of the SJ era.

You don't have to exit iCloud/iMatch. They still have their place.

I have iPhone and iPad2 but don't bother with iCloud/iMatch with these. Instead I load them from my MacMini as I would my iPods.

I am a bit miffed that I have to go through this step. I am also miffed that I have to do this unaided.

How do you it "back n" after turning off?

When I turn it on I get screen to Add this Computer. I think that will try to go thru the whole process again. And surely it knows this computer is already assigned. And yes, I am signed in.

iTunes Match is a joke. A POS piece of software. Morons wrote it and anyone who uses it is a pretty stupid as well. The programmers should be fired and exiled to TimBukTu. The worst POS SW ever.

thanks Rod. you are a champion. i hated it

So bad. Apple just seems to be getting worse and worse for the user and just wants my money now.

I had all the Apple match stuff turned off on my 2 Macs and iPhone because I saw they were going to charge me for something I didn't need.

Somewhere down the line match was turned on on my little mac (which other people use) and the renew date came up today and I get an email for £21 to use this really rubbish service. Then I red this article and realise you've made it very easy to turn on and very hard to completely turn off, hiding the settings accross the devices.. Shame on you once again Apple.

I see what you're doing with the icloud too to make money. Connect your devices, music and contacts under a 5 gb plan (free) 5 gb is nothing when timesing that by the many years you own these device and build up data. Oh what's that? if I go over you start charging me? I never had a problem before you had this system. Clever, asking for money for nothing.

Thank you!

What you need to do to get rid of the cloud showing up in iTunes is to go to preferences (Apple= (cmd + ,) Windows= (ctrl + ,)), clicking "store" and then unchecking the box for "show iTunes in the cloud purchases." Boom. Issue resolved.

What you need to do to get rid of the cloud showing up in iTunes is to go to preferences (Apple= (cmd + ,) Windows= (ctrl + ,)), clicking "store" and then unchecking the box for "show iTunes in the cloud purchases." Boom. Issue resolved.