Comments on: How to cancel a download in iTunes

By: Patrick Olsen

Patrick Olsen — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 04:33:12 +0000

When you pause the downloading the app, right or left click it depending whether you’re using Windows or IOS. Once you highlight it or right click it, HIT DELETE ON YOUR KEYBOARD and that will totally get rid of the unfinished download.. Hope this helps !!

By: rg

rg — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 02:22:53 +0000

Ok, can he or someone like him do same thing thing for me “6 yrs later”?

By: ashwin

ashwin — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:37:40 +0000

goto
EDIT > PREFERENCES > STORE > ( “always check for available downloads” – uncheck the dialog box)
problem solved !

By: genoki san

genoki san — Sun, 18 May 2014 18:03:51 +0000

Its May 2014 and you still cannot remove files from download queue!

How annoying.

Every time I purchase a new show, all of the files on download queue start downloading too!

That is ridiculous amount of bandwidth being used for unwanted media.

This seems such an epic fail for a major technology / user experience / digital media company. Why would this be designed this way?

Weird!

By: Krunk

Krunk — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:26:47 +0000

In reply to Zenmaste43. I'm pretty sure there's a setting in iTunes where you tell it to automatically download songs that you've purchased. You'll probably need to disable that.

By: Zenmaste43

Zenmaste43 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:10:31 +0000

My problem is stranger still. I already downloaded the music I bought on iTunes Store and eventually got tired of some of it, so I deleted the songs from both the iTunes on my laptop and from my iPhone that I sync with the laptop using iTunes. After that, when I sync my iPhone with the laptop, the laptop downloads those same songs again from iTunes and sticks them back on my iPhone again. I don’t know if this is because I bought them as albums and I want to keep only some tracks off the albums and not those that I deleted. Maybe the album’s presence forces them to download the “missing” songs every time I delete them. I’ve been keeping up with the latest iTunes versions for Windows and no version has corrected this issue since I first installed iTunes. It is obviously not an installation problem, but apparently a built-in feature.

By: Manoj

Manoj — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 02:26:12 +0000

In reply to Peter Parker. So Right

By: Peter Parker

Peter Parker — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:13:53 +0000

Well, its the year 2013 and you still can’t remove an item from the download queue in iTunes – the guys at the Apple shop could’t even assist me. I want to start calling names here – Apple is supposed to make user experience better not worse

By: Krunk

Krunk — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:15:01 +0000

In reply to Tony. Last I heard, the only way to permanently remove stuff from your iTunes download queue is to go through support. I believe there should be an option to disable auto-downloading on iTunes or your Apple TV, so that might be worth trying in the meantime until you get support to remove them from your queue.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:11:40 +0000

Hi! I know it has been a long time. Hope somebody is still checking this.

I bought an Apple TV and a MacBook Air, and I’m new to Apple products (other than iPhone and iPad). I purchased a season of Downton Abbey via Apple TV, but now the whole season is trying to automatically download onto my MacBook Air. Yikes! Gigs and gigs.

By poking around, I figured out how to pause the downloads but not how to remove them. I clicked on “Help” in the tool bar at the top, and the drop down menu gives me “iTunes Tutorials” among the options, and “Apple Service and Support” is at the bottom of the list. I’m glad to see that support is so easy to find, and I’m going to try both of these options to see what I can come up with.

I’m astonished that, after several years of people identifying the problem of not being able to delete from one’s own download list, Apple still hasn’t created that option. Amazing.