Multiple logins required after launching iTunes?

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Multiple logins required after launching iTunes?

Each time I launch iTunes (after a restart, or after some time has passed, say a day, without using it) I'm asked 3 times in a row to login to my Apple ID account. The first time, it indicates it is to check for available downloads. The second and third times both indicate it is to allow "automatic downloads".

It doesn't seem right, does it? No-one should have to retype their password three times, every time they simply want to run iTunes. It's fairly recent behavior, and definitely feels 'broken'...

Any ideas how to make it stop? I mean, aside from not allowing iTunes to check for available downloads, or disabling automatic downloads? I'd like to keep those functions if possible...

Thanks in advance!

Posted on Oct 23, 2014 5:21 PM

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Answer 1

jmon71

Level 1

14 points

Dec 16, 2017 7:01 AM in response to c thomasfromhamilton

edit-never mind. I am on windows itunes. I still have a logon 3x for itunes.

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Answer 2

ebsjr

Level 1

16 points

Oct 23, 2014 10:07 PM in response to Robinson Collins

Yes, it is very annoying, Most of the time I select "cancel" and just play my music.

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Answer 3

Nov 17, 2014 6:21 PM in response to Robinson Collins

Go to iTunesPreferences/Advanced and reset warnings and cache. This should fix it!

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Answer 4

Dec 7, 2014 7:27 AM in response to c thomasfromhamilton

No, that is not it.

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Answer 5

Jpme226

Level 1

8 points

Feb 17, 2015 4:07 PM in response to aroughdraft

I went about trying the above a couple of times, it did work ...or ...well it seems to have worked I should say...for now...

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Answer 6

Jpme226

Level 1

8 points

Feb 17, 2015 4:09 PM in response to Robinson Collins

Hey Robinson...I hope you got this worked out. I was having the same problem with my MacBook. Started right after I loaded yosemite on my new iMac and this MBP.

Maddening to get the urge to listen to iTunes on this MBP while working on my iMac only to spend several minutes having to login several times.

I went to preferences > advanced > clear cache reset warnings and it seemed to do the trick as suggested below..

hope it helped!

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Answer 7

Jul 17, 2015 4:49 PM in response to c thomasfromhamilton

Thank you (and to Jpme226 as well) for the reply and solution. Resetting the warnings and cache does appear to have solved it, at least for the moment. If it reappears I'll post here again but for now I'm calling it solved.

Thank you again!

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