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How To: Manage Devices In iTunes
Please note this feature is not available in all countries at the time of publication.
iTunes now allows users to de-authorise individual devices associated with your Apple ID.
You will notice I currently have 4 devices associated and should I select Manage Devices on the right hand side I will be presented with the following information:
You will notice that now users are able to manually remove a single device. In the past users have been restricted to de-authorising all devices in order to add new devices. For example, if I sold my Mac I would need to de-authorise all devices from the account ID before I could add a new Mac if I ran out of available authorisations.
This new way allows users after 90 days of authorising a device to then remove the associated device from their account.
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