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How to Prevent Kids from Making Purchases on iPad or iPhone

Last updated on March 4, 2021 By Stacey Butler Leave a Comment

Whether your child has their own iPad or iPhone, or you let them borrow yours occasionally, you definitely don’t want them buying things without your permission. Certainly, you don’t want them purchasing anything expensive, but even if they are not spending a lot when they make the purchase, there are other reasons you may want […]

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How to Set Up Family Sharing

Last updated on March 4, 2021 By Stacey Butler Leave a Comment

Family Sharing is a way for you and up to five other family members with to share your App Store purchases. You can also share Apple subscriptions – like Music, tv+, Arcade, News+, iCloud, and Fitness+. You can set up Apple Cash, Screen Time and other permissions for a child family member. In this article […]

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The iTunes Store is Unable to Process Purchases at this Time, Fix

Last updated on February 18, 2021 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Several users have reported that they are unable to connect to the iTunes Store and they receive the following error message when they attempt to make purchases and install updates to apps. Affected users keep getting a popup message that says: The iTunes Store is unable to process purchases at this time. Please try again […]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks Tagged With: App Store, iTunes

Mac App Store not Updating Apps

Last updated on October 11, 2020 By Stacey Butler 10 Comments

Some users have reported an issue where the Mac App Store will no longer update their apps. Although the update information for the app shows in the App Store, when the update button is clicked, the app does not get updated and the app update still shows in the App Store. You may also receive […]

Filed Under: Not working? Tagged With: App Store, Mac

Mac App Store Displays Blank White Screen

Last updated on August 11, 2020 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Several users have said that the Mac App Store does not load and displays a white blank screen. This article explains what you can do if the Mac App Store loads an empty screen. It appears that especially earlier versions of macOS suffer from this problem. On your Mac, the best way to get apps […]

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Update Unavailable With This Apple ID, Fix

Last updated on August 7, 2020 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Several users have reported that they get an error message saying”Update Unavailable with This Apple ID. This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled” when they want to update their apps or games in the iOS, iPadOS, macOS […]

Filed Under: Guides Tagged With: App Store

Your Payment Method Was Declined. Please Enter Another Payment Method

Last updated on July 15, 2020 By Serhat Kurt Leave a Comment

Several users have said that their payment method is declined in the App Store or iTunes Store and when they want to change or update the payment method, they are encountering the following error message: Your payment method was declined. Please enter another payment method. This is an important problem. This will prevent you from […]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks Tagged With: App Store, iTunes

Apple TV App Store Not Working? Fix

Last updated on April 9, 2020 By Serhat Kurt 1 Comment

Apple TV Remote

You can download apps and games on your Apple TV through the App Store. Downloading apps is really simple when it works. However, you may run into problems trying to install or update apps. Sometimes Apple TV downloads won’t start, sometimes it may seem downloads are taking forever and won’t finish and downloads freeze and […]

Filed Under: Not working? Tagged With: App Store, Apple TV

Verification Failed: There Was an Error Connecting to the Apple ID Server, Fix

Last updated on March 23, 2020 By Serhat Kurt 28 Comments

iOS: There was an error connecting to Apple ID server

Several users have reported “verification failed” errors when trying to log into iCloud or the iTunes and Apple Store on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The error message says: “Verification failed. There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server.” See also: Cannot Connect to the App Store It seems that several macOS and […]

Filed Under: Not working? Tagged With: App Store, iTunes

iOS Apps Stuck Loading on iPhone or iPad, How To Fix

Last updated on April 21, 2019 By Serhat Kurt 2 Comments

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Yesterday I decided to check for updates on my iPhone. There were a lot of app updates. I decided update all. I went to App Store > Updates and Update All. There were 38 app updates. All of them successfully updated except one. That one did not complete the process. That one got stuck loading […]

Filed Under: Not working? Tagged With: App Store, Apps Not Updating, Loading

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