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Q: Apple ID account 'accidentally' deleted, will I lose the music I bought via iTunes on my computer?

My younger cousin deleted my Apple ID account (somehow by using my iPhone, she had my old id and password info) and I had to create a new account. I'm away from my computer (MacBook Pro, 2011) in a foreign country for a few weeks and cannot check to see if the music I downloaded from iTunes still exists on my computer, or if I will totally lose it? I'm worried because that's a lot of money!

 

 

Thank you!

Posted on Dec 19, 2014 5:05 AM

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Q: Apple ID account 'accidentally' deleted, will I lose the music I bought via iTunes on my computer?

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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Dec 19, 2014 6:44 AM in response to Puga2
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    Dec 19, 2014 6:44 AM in response to Puga2

    You're worried somebody deleted the account on your computer in another country using your phone??? (*puzzled*)  Where is the phone right now?  Where is the computer?

     

    You cannot delete an Apple ID.  Anything purchased with it will with some exceptions still be accessible when you log in again.  What you do on a phone will not affect the settings on a computer.  In order to remove music from the computer you pretty much have to be sitting at the computer logged in and delete the files from the computer.  Now if a person changes the phone to their AppleID it will no longer be in connection with your account.  I don't know if that will cause music to disappear from the phone, and it might take trying to sync with a computer to cause the "this phone has not synched to this iTunes library before, syncing now will erase the content on the phone" message.