How to View and Download iTunes Past Purchases in the Cloud

With the launch of iCloud, specifically iTunes in the Cloud, it means that all purchases made on iTunes is now been saved in the cloud (Internet) at Apple’s server. iCloud allows all purchases through iTunes to be shared and synced with all iOS devices and computers that the customer owns automatically and instantl. Previously all customers’ purchases can be synced to other iOS devices only by connecting to iTunes software.

The good thing about iTunes in the Cloud is that now all your past and previous purchases from iTunes is now readily available for viewing, and downloading if you want. Before iCloud era, iTunes Store customers have to check unintuitive purchase histories inside “Account Information”, which does not allow interaction nor direct download from the history.

Here’s how you can view and manage all iTunes purchased items of music, apps and books in the iCloud, and initiate manual downloading if the content not yet available on that device. Note that iCloud Automatic Downloads only applicable to new purchases, so if you have any past purchases that not yet synced to the device or computer, you have to manually download previously purchased music (songs), apps and books from the cloud, for free.

How to View and Download Previous iTunes Purchases on iTunes in Windows or Mac OS X (Requires iTunes 10.3 or newer version)

In iTunes, click on the Purchased in the left sidebar under Store section. Then click on Download Previous Purchases in the bottom right corner.

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