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User profile for user: Scottferrell929
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Why do you hide purchases?

What is the point of iTunes hiding past purchases?

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Feb 7, 2016 5:32 PM

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User profile for user: ed2345
ed2345
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Feb 9, 2016 4:57 AM in response to Scottferrell929

Scottferrell929 wrote:


What is the point of iTunes hiding past purchases?


Scott,


In the original days of iTunes, anything that you bought and didn't want could simply be deleted. Once iTunes started making all past purchases visible in the cloud, a couple of problems occurred:


  • Stuff you had long since lost interest in kept showing up.
  • Stuff you didn't want others to see became visible (e.g. on Family Sharing).


For both these reasons, iTunes added the ability to hide selected past purchases. It is of course optional to do so.


Hide and unhide purchases in iTunes or iBooks on your Mac or PC - Apple Support

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