"Your account is temporarily unavailable."

Same here in U.K. I changed my AppleID email and now get the "The Store is unable to access your account information" message on iTunes and iPhone when I'm trying to purchase anything. I hope it gets sorted out soon.

I had this happen a couple days ago (Central Coast, California) and I couldn't log in - got the same error messages. Waited until the following day, and all was well. Oddly, I was able to access the Mac App Store and iCloud, no problem. But not the iOS App Store - either iPhone 4 or iPad 2. Wonder what's going on.

Not only am I getting the ACCOUNT TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE error message, but also the in-store credit balance says I only have $10.00. Wrong. There should be roughly 20 x that amount. ***. Will I be required to prove my transfer of $400 from an AMEX REWARD PROGRAM ... And the showing my purchases since then. Thank God, I saved all iTunes e-mails and have access to iTunes Purchases from within the iTunes store.

Same here in Berwyn. Wouldn't it have been nice for Apple to send us a courtesy email explaining this? instead we waste countless hours wondering if our hardware/software/ISP has a problem. Thanks a lot.

I have brought some of these issues up to apple support...

here is what I have discovered...

Most of the problems are occurring on computers using the itunes application, not on the idevices...

If I download one update, or updates individually it works. However, if I use the Download all Updates button, I get the same error message everyone else seems to be getting "temporarily unavailable". If I then go back to individual downloads... same message as before. If I now wait a few hours, individual downloads or purchases will work again.

I also found that itunes match does not seem to want to work although previous sessions of itunes match can still be accessed via my iphone and ipad.

I believe Apple is investigating this and it goes beyond the security issues caused by earlier hacks.

I am still having an issue with this. I have an Iphone 4S. Has anyone heard any new news on this? I can't even make purchases or update apps one at a time. I have to agree with jbirid5792, I did panic and thought someone had hacked my Id. A little notice would have been great 😠

The most problems seem to be iCloud-related. I'm so glad I held off on doing iTunes Match. I can now update my iPad as well as my iPod Touch, but no luck with the iPhone yet. I had to sync it to my pc just to install an app I purchased on the iPod Touch!

If this continues, I'm visiting the Genius Bar tomorrow...

Thanks for all the input. Was wondering if I fat-fingered my password too many times as I happen to have some BIG Jimmy Deans. LOL Seriously, was wondering why I coulldn't update apps on my MAC. This forum helped me find out why. Thanks to ALL you have made comments. Will just wait it out. Shout out to all those in the UK...three years spent there in Cambridge.....loved every minute of it!!

Go to settings > app store > click on apple ID > view apple ID, type in password if asked, then you will see your card information and address. under your card information, the security code box is empty with the word 'required' in the white box. Put in your code and that will allow you to download whatever your trying to purchase or update.

I had to reset my Apple ID password in order to be able to make this post. I was using Itunes and my account became unavailable while I was trying to update my phone, My wife has a separate account that is available, so it is not an internet connection problem. What's going on Apple?

I was able to update an app directly from my iPhone and iPad, but I am unable to add songs to mt new macbook pro.

Glad I found this thread. Brand new MBAir out of the box today and four hours spent trying to get iTunes Match and iTunes store to work. Plus two hours on the phone with Apple Support. They weren't any help and had me reload Mountain Lion. No one even mentioned this issue. UGH

Okay... iTunes just crashed on my pc while trying to sync my iPod Touch. The only way to update my iPhone or iPad(it failed AGAIN) was to download the apps to my iPod Touch first, transfer "purchases" to my pc, then sync the other devices. But iTunes crashed during the sync. Trying again now.

Worked with the iPod Touch.

Worked with the iPad 2.

Worked with the iPhone!

It's convoluted, but it's a good temporary solution. As long as you don't want to buy any iPad apps...

Issue still persists...hopefully it works tomorrow. I am trying to download an entire album and it doesnt work. I did have success with a single song though, pretty weird. I wonder if they are experiencing a server issue.

Ok, I also had this problem for several days on my home Mac Pro running 10.8.

However, I could make purchases and download updates on my work machine (also 10.8) and on my iOS devices.

Looking at my account details on the home machine I tried to make changes to some details and got an error message that said something to the effect that my changes could not be saved as my account had been modified by something else in that period.

So I restarted my Mac - something that rarely happens - and everything works, problem gone.

Just out of interest has anyone else done this?

Also wondering if when in iTunes, logging out of my iTunes store account and back could have fixed it. Anyone tried this?

I'm running iTunes on a pc with Windows Vista Ultimate. I did try the restart, to no avail. I did restarts on all of my iDevices with no luck. Now they seem to work, except that I keep getting Apple ID Password prompts at random intervals while using my iPhone. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, it just keeps happening.

I'm trying a sync now. Hopefully that will solve the issue.