iTunes won't sign in

I have the same thing happen on my Mac. Worse is that I decided to log out of my account and now I can't log in at all since it constantly asks for my sign in information. But logging in to appleid.apple.com works just fine so I'm stumped. Tried clearing iTunes cache, disabling firewall, and reinstalling iTunes with no success. I'm logged in to the Mac App Store and iCloud but my iCloud says that my account is unavailable at this time. My Mac App Store account never asks for my password once I'm logged in (since I selected that option), so no real problems unless I attempt to purchase. Based on what the message from iCloud says, I suppose my account is under maintenance or something. But it has been several days now, so I'm a bit worried Apple has lost my account rather than it being under maintenance.

I'm having the same issues. It appears iTunes isn't receiving the login credentials, as I can enter in the correct or incorrect password and I get the same "unable to connect" message in return. Logging into appleid.apple.com works fine, as does using the iTunes store via iOS. I've tried the fixes suggested by Apple and nothing has worked.

Edit: I just reset my router to give me a new IP address and now everything works just fine. Weird.

Same issue. Started today and has lasted over 12 hours. Tried two seperate networks, a test user account, cleared iTunes plists and caches, changed iTunes/Apple ID password and a bunch of other things to no avail. Contacted Apple Support and the initial two replies had nothing to do with the issue (waiting on a third reply).

Basicly, iTunes can load the store and all links that are NOT associated to my account. However, if iTunes needs to access something related to my account (i.e. sigining in, authorizing a rental, updating Genius, etc.) it becomes stuck in an an endless loop of "Accessing iTunes Store..." Occasionally it will error out with one of two error messages ("iTunes is unavailable at this time." or "There was an error in the iTunes store."). Both error messages state to "Try again later."

Hoping that this is only a one day, temproary error. As of right now, I am unable to even login into my iTunes account on the Mac (I am able to access my account just fine via my iPhone).

I think there might be some down time or something, I can't browse the iTunes Store on my mac either, and iTunes Match is basically not functioning. I can't say when this began but I was able to purchase an album earlier today.

Will check again tomorrow.

Having different, but similar issues yesterday & today. Click on iTunes store, get the white "iTunes Store" "screen", nothing else. Eventually, store shows up, but, can't login to account ("The iTunes store is temporarily unavailable").

Using latest version of iTunes. Was working on Tues, started acting up on Wed. iOS devices having no issues accessing the store.

ADD: and when doing an iOS app update, infinite "Accessing iTunes Store...".

Hi,

It has been unavailable for over 24 hours now. What's odd is I still have access to iTunes Store and match on my 2nd imac and my ipad.

Jim

Re: the blank/default iTunes Store splash screen: looks like I'm getting that while iTunes Match spins its wheels trying to do its thing. Once it (guessing) fails, iTunes Store shows up automatically.

I was having the same issue, with the same trouble shooting and more... What I did to finally get it to work was scroll to the bottom of the store. clicked on the US flag (I have a US iTunes account), and select the us itunes store again. worked immediatedly after. Hope this has the same result for you.

Hi,

Your a genius!!!

I'm in the UK. Clicked on UK store. Took me to list of all stores. Selected UK again then signed in to store.

Now been able to re activate match.

Jim

Worked for me too. Thank you!

Appears the resetting of region (for now) works for me as well.

Thanks!

My issue has resolved itself.

Had same problem, but had to restore mt lion over previous, keeping all personal stuff intact and that worked

It was exactly the same for me. I could access iTunes on the same computer with a different (new) user, but any other route would lead me to the Connecting to iTunes Store loop. In the end I had to restore ML as well as my content using Time Machine.

Out of curiosity did anyone sync an iOS device prior to this happening? I'm trying to figure out if there's a correlation. I did sync my iPad the night before.