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If you had any problems authorizing your Windows computer, check out the section on how to deauthorize all your computers below. Note: You can only authorize a computer or device with a different Apple ID once every 90 days. To deauthorize your Mac computer, open the iTunes or Apple Music app and click Account in the menu bar. To deauthorize your Windows computer, open the iTunes app and click Account at the top of the window. If you have deauthorized your computer, and you still have too many authorized devices, you can deauthorize all your computers at once.
Finally, click Deauthorize All. You can also see which devices are authorized by clicking the Manage Devices button below.
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This article leaves out one very relevant fact. You can only deauthorise all your computers once a year. This makes the facility almost useless and requires a call to Apple if you get caught having sold a computer which you forgot to remove from the list of authorized computers and have done one of these deauthorise all options within the last 12 months.
Apple really do need to understand how this should work. Microsoft and Adobe rather belatedly allow you to go to a web site to deauthorise a specific machine which is using a download of your subscription.
Apple need to do the same. They have been very poor at explaining their authorization model. And to this point, why do they have the restriction? Because of this and other issues have you seen how long iTunes takes to download content to iOS devices — OS X no problem, but iOS devices can wait days before music downloads are up to date?
I am looking at other alternatives for managing my music and other media content. Deauthorizing computers is so inconvenient and annoying you would think that nobody at Apple has ever done it or ever sold or used more than 5 computers.
How about Apple TV? You can do purchases from that too. In the pop-up window, confirm that this is what you want to do. In a few seconds, all the computers on your account will be deauthorized. It's very important to understand that this step means that every computer that was previously able to access purchases made through that Apple ID has been deauthorized. So, you'll have to reauthorize the ones you want to use. Authorization is a form of DRM applied to some content sold through the iTunes Store and Apple's other online media stores.
Since iTunes authorizations can be shuffled around, you can deauthorize any number of computers to re-open those authorization slots for other computers. For example, if five computers are authorized, you must deauthorize one before you can authorize a new computer. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
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