

That's how you download something you've purchased in the past. So if I were to switch between All and Not in my Library, you can see now that disappeared because it is in my library currently.

You can see the cloud icon is now gone meaning that I have that in my library now. If I click on it, it will go and download that song. So you can see here the little cloud icon. You can see after ten, fifteen plus years of purchasing things on iTunes I've got a lot here and I can select anything I want and simply download it again. You can switch between everything you've ever purchased or things that you've purchased but are currently not present in your library and you can Search for something over here. This is where a lot of people get tripped up because they think it should be in some menu up here.īut you click on Purchased and it will load in all of your previous purchases. Now you look on the right here and this is where you'll find a link to things that you Purchased in the past. Once you go to the Music section over here you want to look for the Store button at the top and you go to the Store. Then you want to go to the Music section. That's why it's important to have one Apple ID per person and stick with it. If you've changed Apple ID's you're not going to have access to the music you purchased with your old Apple ID. Well, the first thing you do is you want to go to the Account menu and make sure that you're logged on using the same account that you made to purchase. Once you've made a purchase in iTunes you can now free download that music whenever you want even it it's years later.

Maybe, for instance, you've bought a new Mac and you never bothered to download those songs to it. Video Transcript: A common question people have with iTunes is how do you get back music that you purchased in the past but no longer seem to have in your library. Check out Re-Download Purchased Music in iTunes at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
