New iTunes purchases are downloaded to the mac and are not in the cloud

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New iTunes purchases are downloaded to the mac and are not in the cloud

Hi!

I'm quite new with Mac as I recently bought a new Mac Book Pro.

The first time I've turned it on I noticed that my previous purchases in iTunes (all of them purchased with my iPhone) have been presented available through icloud and I could listen them by streaming (or get them downloaded if I wanted).

I also noticed that the new purchases made with the iPhone after I bought the mac were not available through icloud but were downloaded automatically to the mac. The conclusion is that I have a mixed combination between old purchases available from the cloud and new ones that are downloaded automatically.

Question1: is there a way to have all of them - no matter if new or old acquisitions - available from the cloud?

Question2: what happens when I will connect the iPhone to the Mac? Will it transfer the purchases (music and applications) to the mac automatically? is there a way to have what I buy with the iphone on the iPhone and get them available from the cloud for the Mac only?

Questions3: the same happens for the applications that I get for the iphone. They are downloaded automatically to the Mac. For example I bought a game (750MB) for the iPhone and I had it downloaded to the Mac. As for Quesiton1, is there a way to prevent this to happen? 750MB on the mac for an application that doesn't run in the computer are a lot of waste space. I can understand the point of the backup but I'd rather have 750MB free on my drive.

Thanks!

Posted on Apr 30, 2013 6:35 AM

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griff w

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May 2, 2013 1:04 PM in response to campim

Hello campin,

Congrats on your now MacBook Pro and welcome to the Apple family!

So, I'm just going to address each question directly.

1) Short answer: yes. The article "iTunes 11 for Mac: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store" goes over the process of downloading all of your previously purchased content.

2) When you plug in your device you should see that iTune will allow you to configure the syncing options for each type of content. See "iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer" for more info.

3) Automatic downloads is something that you can disable, but is enabled by default. This is also something that be different for Music and Apps. See "iTunes Store: How to enable Automatic Downloads"

It's a lot of information, but that should help you out and enjoy your new MacBook Pro!

-Griff W.

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campim Author

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May 4, 2013 12:53 AM in response to griff w

griff, thanks for your answer that helps me!

I'm starting to think that it is not possible to prevent new purchases made with the iPhone to be downloaded to the Mac as soon as I open iTunes (ref. my question number 1). It is definitely important to be able to tune the iTunes to prevent automatic apps downloaded as you have correctly reported with answer to my question number 3.

Ciao.

Marco

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