{"id":33,"date":"2011-09-18T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-09-18T15:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:48:06","slug":"apple-id-not-used-with-itunes-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/apple-id-not-used-with-itunes-store\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Apple ID not used with iTunes Store&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to use the App Store to buy the Lion OS upgrade for my new Mac I got this message:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This Apple ID has not yet been used with the iTunes Store. Please review your account information.<br \/>\nCancel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Review<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I just got my Apple ID so I could buy Lion, of course it hasn&#8217;t been used with iTunes. I verified my email and account information. What&#8217;s this all about?<\/p>\n<p>I can log in to my id at <a title=\"https:\/\/appleid.apple.com\" href=\"https:\/\/appleid.apple.com\/\">https:\/\/appleid.apple.com<\/a> without problems. I was able to use the id to log into Apple&#8217;s support forum. So at some level the id is working.<\/p>\n<p>When clicking on the Review button it talks about checking cookies and checking the computer date\/time but nothing that is relevant for my situation.<\/p>\n<p>I launched the iTunes application and somehow entered my credit card associated with my Apple ID. Then I downloaded a free talk from Stanford just to see that things were working.<\/p>\n<p>Trying iTune again and I cannot sign in to my account. I get the same old error message.<\/p>\n<p>How do I get my Apple ID to work for buying things?<\/p>\n<p>Searching with Goggle finds millions of people with the same error message but no solution for this case. There was no response in the support forum either.<\/p>\n<p>Evenually I figured out a solution.<\/p>\n<h3>Solution<\/h3>\n<p>If your new apple id doesn&#8217;t work, create a new one and do it using iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to use the App Store to buy the Lion OS upgrade for my new Mac I got this message: This Apple ID has not yet been used with the iTunes Store. Please review your account information. Cancel \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/apple-id-not-used-with-itunes-store\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flenniken.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}