[NBC Content Coming Back To ITunes
Addison Mauldin
Any movies PURCHASED will only be available for as long as the studio or rights owner allows it to be. If you purchase a movie from iTunes that purchase can be removed at any time and there is nothing that you can do about it, unless you want to purchase that movie again!
So the crunch of this is, purchasing an iTunes movie is merely (not guaranteed though) allowing you to keep and view that movie a little bit longer than renting one. It can (and highly likely will) be removed from your movie collection at any time in the future, at either the whim of the studio or indeed Apple.
I only have around 90+ movies and TV series (quite a lot in terms of cost) and always thought I could keep them until I die! Not the case. Other people no doubt thought they owned a lot more movies/tv series, think again.
Also there is a strong element that BUYING a film it would be yours, forever. That is the difference between renting and buying. In this case, buying (a lot more expensive) is no different to renting.
If you download your purchases from the iTunes Store and back them up then you can keep them for as long as you can avoid losing all of your copies at once. Much like a DVD or Blu-Ray purchase is yours for as long as you can avoid losing or damaging the disc. Physical media doesn't guarantee you access to the content in perpetuity.
Perhaps the difference is that some of us have been using iTunes since the days when it was clear that you only got one successful download of each item and you were prompted to backup. The rules have evolved gradually over time. I believe that in some cases Apple have moved to change the agreements with some suppliers, e.g. for apps, so that a developer removing items from the store prevents new purchases, but does not prevent previous owners from accessing the content. They may try something similar with movies too, particularly given that they don't supply downloads of 4K content which can only be streamed.
True, movies are locked to an Apple ID, so you also need to ensure that you maintain access to the account. Past purchases carry on working regardless of whether the item is in the store or not. For apps there are other considerations such as iOS moving on when the app stops being developed, but that is a feature of software purchases on all platforms.
I bought the iPad mini 6 for both of my kids. I set up their own apple ID's and set up screen time controls to lock down any inappropriate content as well as app limits. The screen time restrictions that I put in place keep turning off/resetting on their own. My children do not know the screen time pin (which is different from any pin used in our family of devices/IDs). I have watched the settings change right before my eyes. This has to be a glitch in the system. Is there a way to notify apple to patch this? Their iPads were updated to the lasted IOS when we set them up on Christmas. I have also checked to make sure there isn't a more recent update and they are up to date. Any advice on getting their iPads working correctly with the parent controls I keep having to reinstate?
This is both a blessing and a curse for us parents. When there is an iOS version mismatch it can create random issues. When the parents device is on a newer version of iOS than the kids, there is no issue as it knows how to talk to the older version as well. However, if the kids device is on a newer version, it might not know how to talk to it. When it gets an unknown response, it displays nothingness. Then you close it and it sends the updated version of nothing to your kids phone.
I then updated my phone to 16.3.1 (hers was still 16.3) and now everything was working as expected, I reset everything on my phone, her phone updated as expected, I changed it on her phone, my phone reflected the changes.
I am making a lot of educated guesses here. I tried to confirm by having a buddy of mine that was having the same issue check versions and he also had the problem of kids having newer versions of iOS. Updated and everything worked.
My daughter's phone (bought last summer) keeps the parental controls on - no problems. She doesn't play games, mostly reads news, youtube and a few websites. However, my son's phone (bought a few months ago) is constantly dropping parental controls. He downloads lots of games and plays many at the same time (switching back and forth), also watches youtube. I've reentered the settings multiple times a week for months now. Super frustrating.
I updated my OS to 16.4.1 a few days ago and so far screen time hasn't stopped working (for 2 days). It would be nice if Apple's Community team responded with a verification that updating the OS will fix the issue.
its happening for me as well.. I would like to see a parental control audit report on what changed when.. Also I only see my kids screen time settings on my phone not on the ipad. Once I doubted my kid of tempering.. Feature is unusable..
Welcome to Apple Support Communities. If you haven't already, we'd recommend changing your Screen Time passcode, then testing again. This might help refresh things and stop this from happening. The following guidance is from How to reset the Screen Time passcode for your personal device.
It's not a passcode issue, it sometimes happens while I am in settings and with both kids' devices next to me! It keeps happening over and over. We've tried to make sure all settings are identical on mine & husband's phones, tried doing things from icloud, etc, but nothing helps!
My eldest kid (8) showed me that if she makes an app crash, all parental controls come back. She knows how to make an acrylic nail crash, and when it goes back to the Home Screen, all parental controls are off.
Like someone mentioned on this thread, my kid also easily bypasses the restrictions (well, they are given an option to do so on the platter..how dumb.) and unfortunately does long hours on the iPAD which I don't desire.
Had got a new iPAD as he persisted, even though we have been in a Windows and Android ecosystem. I have decided to SELL the iPAD now only for this reason, parental controls on Windows and Android work perfectly fine.
Same thing. I put all the settings in and almost immediately they reset on my son's phone and on my daughters it lasts maybe a day then resets. Looks like this has been a problem for a while and I will not allow my kids to just have every app at their fingertips all day long. Plan on switching all of our phones back to Samsung of I can't get it resolved.
So I updated a machine with a bunch of files on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, and when I upgraded it asked me if I wanted to store these folders on iCloud as well. I hit YES and it began trying to upload everything. Now, I guess I had a large file in one of the folders because the total upload was almost 9GB (i have 200GB of available iCloud space). It failed the upload and has just been stuck on 57kb of 8.89GB uploaded for over a day. I've tried restarting and it hasn't moved. I haven't found a way to quit it either. This has been making my machine incredibly slow and has caused the fans to speed up like crazy. Anytime I try to access an Open or Save dialog, the app I'm using crashes, whether it's Preview, Xcode, Photoshop, or even Safari.
So I went to the iCloud system preferences and unchecked the "Desktop and Documents" item. I figured it wouldn't delete things that were still locally saved on my disk. But I was wrong and now every single file on both my Desktop and in my Documents is gone. Not in the trash, nowhere to be found. Gone.
Can any one help me with this? Has anyone experienced something similar? The iCloud upload is still there and still isn't progressing at all (not sure what its trying to upload anyways since the files were all deleted). My computer is unusable and my files are all gone. I have a Time Machine backup from last week, but I will not have access to for almost 2 more weeks so if there's a way to recover my files sooner and kill this upload task, that would be amazing.
I had the same thing happen to me. I unchecked the iCloud Drive Settings and then rebooted. When it came back up, it was still trying to upload the files. I think the process was called "bird". You can check in the Activity Monitor. Once I dragged all the files out of the /iCloud Folder (local) back to my documents, then I let it percolate and things ended up being okay.
I think Apple needs to put a bit more of a delay in that (e.g. maybe two acceptance boxes). When I clicked on the yes box, I completely forgot that I had several gigs of files in both my corporate and personal Dropbox folders as well as my Onedrive folder. It was the Ondrive yakking at me saying the "default folder has moved" that tipped me off to what was going on. Moving those folders created a bit of a "***" moment. It's all good and the experiece I hope will help others as well as Apple really understand the complexity of moving the contents of the Documents folder to the cloud.
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