How to "check for available downloads" on IPhone

I do not have access to my computer or ITunes on my computer at this time. Is there any way to download a pre purchased album strait to my IPhone without downloading it to my computer first?

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When you pre-order an item, you may not be able to download it at the exact moment it becomes available for regular purchase. You’ll receive an email the same day it becomes available to let you know when you can download the item.
Windows: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12504
Mac: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1709

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HT204370 check for available downloads for the store menu appears when i try to download my copy of Ted? why and how to follow through?

im trying to download my free copy of Ted when i purchased the blu ray copy, and i cant seem to get it to download, i seem to have it, i run windows 7 and use itunes most current version as well. i try to download it and i get a window that pops up and says: You have already purchased this item. You have already purchased this item but it has not been downloaded. To download it, select Check For Available Downloads from the Store menu.
after that i just don't know where to goe, where available downloads are located in the store, i look up the movie and it just says to purchase, i already have so i just need to downloade my copy, any help or advice?

http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact.html?form=account

Check for Available Downloads... (where are they?)

My daughter has purchased several songs from iTunes using her iPhone and my iTunes account. She never synchs with her Powerbook, so I can't do a Home Share to transfer them to my own, or any of the other computers on our home network. However, according to the iTunes menu, any song bought using our iTunes account should automatically download to my computer. At least that's how I set the preferences.
But it's not working - when I go to the "Check for Available Downloads..." menu it tells me that all my purchases have been downloaded but these new songs are not in my Library. Is iTunes not recognizing that she has purchased them with the same account? (my credit card is certainly being charged using that account) So where are they? How do I get them on our other other computers - and eventually on our respective iPad and iPods?
Any thoughts, instructions or clarifications on how this works, would be appreciated.

Do you have automatic downloads turned 'on' for your account on your computer's iTunes ? If not then you can turn it 'on', but that will only take effect from the next purchase.
Depending upon what country that you are in (it's not possible everywhere) then you might be able to re-download them via the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes : re-downloading.

TV Shows Season Pass New Episodes Gone from Check for Available Downloads

I was informed today from iTunes Support that new episodes that become available will no longer come through the Store > Check for Available Downloads option in iTunes. If you notice in your email alerts for the new episode's availability, it now says the new episode is found in your Purchased items in Itunes in the Cloud.
I was also told that if I checked the options "show iTunes Purchases in the Cloud" in iTunes > Preferences > Store tab, that I could just see the new episodes in my Library under TV Shows. I used to have this option and could access the new episodes and download them this way, but that option is now GONE as well from iTunes. I am awaiting feedback from my Senior Support Rep as to what is wrong there.
I have been simply going to the iTunes Store > Purchased > TV Shows and clicking the "Not on this computer" option in the upper right. I have to go show by show and click "Download" or "Download All". I have almost 15 Season Passes at any one time. This is a completely horrible way of downloading them.
When the new episodes were evailable via the "Check for Available Downloads" Option, I had my iMac scheduled to restart every morning around 4am Central. That was about 2 hours after the date/time stamp of the email notifications. Since iTunes was always set to start at login, it would automatically check for available downloads, and then download all the new episodes. I then had a cloning process scheduled that would clone my primary iTunes Media drive to a backup iTunes Media drive. That way if one fails I always have an up to date copy.
This new method totally screws up how slick this whole process worked. I understand streaming and the cloud is the direction they are taking here, but this is completely an about face. I want the new episodes available locally. I want it downloaded when I am asleep and always available locally when I want to watch. That way I dont have to worry about my internet availability. Storm can knockout my internet. The construction down the road can cut the optical cable. I may loose my internet due to a problem with the ISP. Having the files locally allows me to watch them worry free, buffer free, and when I want to.
I urge those who are annoyed by this change to provide feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
I really hope this decision to remove this functionality is not a sign to come. Next I will be downloading each song one by one when I buy an album because I can just stream it in the cloud.
I love my Apple products and servies. But this totally makes me hate them right now.

I am so angry right now I can not even see straight. So the "Show iTunes Purchases Option" out of the blue showed up in iTunes this morning. I dont know if a reboot fixed it or what. But the attached screen shows the lack of that feature along with the iTunes version.
So I am not freaking crazy. So I turned it on this morning to pick up 3 new episodes. I get home tonigth and sit down on my couch with my Apple TV ready to roll... and it has completely screwed my "watched" vs "unwatched" episodes. I come to my iTunes library on my iMac and sure enough TV Shows and Movies I know I have not watched or started are marked as watched.
I have not watched a single episode of The Following Season 1, and it basically shows I have watched all but the latest 4 shows. I have not watched the last several episodes of Revenge, and it says I have not watched only the last episode. I am guessing as to where I left off, but it looks like Episode 13 was the last episode I watched and iTunes said I had only not watched Episode 19. Vikings Season 1 - I have not watched a single show, but it shows I have watched all but the last 2 episodes, 8 & 9.
Movies - I have bought and downloaded many movies that I have not watched as of yet. For instance: Django Unchainted, and all 3 Matrix Movies. I have watched a couple of the Matrix movies but not all the way through. But I had gone back and marked them as "unwatched" Everything else I had not even touched to hit play or nothing. These are all purchases.
I hunted down all the episodes and movies I knew I had not watched... which took me quite a while... and then when I close and re-open iTunes and at least the watched/unwatched TV shows stayed as I marked them. This was not the case when this feature was first rolled out with iTunes 11. That is exactly why I never used this feature in the first place. Time will tell if it remains stable with the watch/unwatched situation.
Regardless, I am so tired of taking time out of my day and writing iTunes support and giving Apple feedback so they can perhaps look into it and see if its a larger issue than just my library. So they can also maybe realize that some of us actually love their product and want to see them continue to working awesome, slick, and incredible. But as someone who is looking at 8 active season passes.... I may never buy a season pass from iTunes again. The reason why EVERYONE still has a TV antenna and/or cable is because the basic concept of how you watch the programming DOESNT CHANGE. They should take this feedback simply as TV shows are not like Movies and Music. TV shows happen weekly. Having a consistent and repeatable process to get the shows and watch them each week is paramount.
I am usually very good with change and enhancements. But this one.... has completely made me an irate Apple Customer.

I can't seem to download anything on my iTunes when I use Check for available downloads. I have preorders that I can't download cos it just says 'iTunes store temporarily unavailable' even tho when I actually go on iTunes itself it work fine..

I've been in contact with Apple support team regarding this issue. I have about 9 items available for download(preorders mostly) but it's not listed under download. When I click on Check for available download, a message with 'iTunes temporarily unavailable' appears but when I go to the iTunes store itself, its working just fine. I've already been charged twice for the same movie which Apple have kindly refunded me for one of them but I still haven't managed to download that movie yet. Apple says its a problem with my computer and given me all sort of ways to rectify the issue and still no hope. Everything else seems to work just fine including the actual iTunes store, wifi syncing and cable syncing etc. Can somebody help me with this if you know how to solve this problem or if you've had the same issue now or before?
I am using the latest Software updates on my iTunes and these 9 items were purchased whilst on this new updates

Launch iTunes on your computer.
From the menu bar click iTunes > Preferences then select the Advanced tab.
Click Reset warnings and Reset cache
Click OK.
Restart your computer, launch iTunes.
Click Store > Check for Available Downloads...

HT1725 When I click on a Movie I get the following "You have already purchased this item but it has not been downloaded. To download it, select Check For Available Downloads from the Store menu." Then get err = 11111

iTunes quit unexpectedly during the download of a movie. When I click on that movie now I get the following message: "You have already purchased this item but it has not been downloaded. To download it, select Check For Available Downloads from the Store menu."
I follow the instructions, but the download still doesn't resume - err = 11111
Any advice?

Yeah, I am going to blast my iPhone for the 4th time today and pray this goes away. I had 6 apps showing updates, the 6 badge icon shows on the App Store on my iPhone and, having run them all, the 6 apps have two copies each on my iPhone: one that is the old version of the app and will not run and the other is a faded version of the app with an empty progress bar on the icon. Click those and you get an error message about connecting to iTunes, etc. as described in the article I linked to above.
It gets stranger than this. If I install a completely NEW app, the 6 that are stuck mid-update heal themselves and appear with the new version only, however now completely different apps (Hold Em for instance - which I did not update and didn't need an update) will not launch "app name Cannot Launch" message comes up.
Agh!

Unable to check for available downloads... Try again later.

"Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily available. Please try again later." Forever, really.
It all started when I attempted to "Download All Updates" (104 of them) and it crashed. Now it tells me that I've already purchased the items, and to "Check for Available Downloads", which throws the above error for going on three days now. Email support has not answered my inquiry / report.
In the meantime, the "Genius Folks" in the Apple Store inspired me to a partial workaround, at least to whittle down the queue. By installing the apps to my device, updating them there, and syncing them back to iTunes. But I still have a few stuck in some weird state, that iTunes is unprepared to process.
BTW, the geniuses never heard of this problem, even after I showed them that a quick Google search came right back with 404,000 hits. I've seen iTunes unable to connect to the Store when there were too many updates, for years, on both Windows and OSX, and many released versions, but I've always been able to download them individually, instead of in bulk. First time it crashed and left me hosed.
Seems like a server-side issue. Any suggestions on how to get through to the powers that be, and have my queue cleaned up? And maybe get the attention of the Q/A and development departments to actually acknowledge and fix a long standing and most inconvenient bug?

Thank you so much - I have spent the last 4 days scouring internet forums trying to solve this problem (I couldn't connect to the iTunes store/download any apps or updates) and just as I was about to give up I stumbled across your post. I can't believe I've had such big problems all because of the ampersand in my billing address! How did you discover this?! It's such a small detail! To my huge relief it's all sorted now and I can now update my apps and download again! I'll be cancelling my appointment at the genius bar tomorrow too! Thanks again very much!

I downloaded a movie on itunes and turned my computer off and when i turned it back on the movie wasnt there so i went to re download and it says check for available download and it still won't let me down load it. what do i do?

i downloaded a movie on itunes and turned my computer off and when i turned it back on the movie wasnt there so i went to re download and it says check for available download and it still won't let me down load it. what do i do?

Hi runner_girl7585,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. If you weren't ever able to watch your rental movie, you can report this to the iTunes Store:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
Cheers,
- Ari

Unable to check for available downloads.

I've been getting the message, "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." all September long and I'm not sure how to fix it.
I've been told by iTunes support that it should be up within 24 hours but it's been over 500 hours so far.
I've been told maybe my iTunes is out of date but I have the most recent.
I've also been told it's my ISP/ net connection but I have no problems downloading some things.
I have had 40 items unable to be downloaded for a while and that annoyed me but tonight I tried downloading 5 more songs and then I had to accept a new 'Terms of Service' so I did and then those 5 ended up with the 5 others in some kind of file purgatory.
Not sure how much this could help but iTunes Support doesn't seem to care and they just told me to ask here instead of them.
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And how do you check each pending download? My download screen has absolutely nothing on it. At the bottom of it there is "16 iTunes Downloads Available." I click on the download button next to it and get the same error: "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." Help, I just bought an app I'm dying to play on my iPod!

Unable to check for available downloads. The network connection timed out.

I downloaded iTunes 10.1.2 last week, and attempted to upgrade some music to iTunes Plus. I'm showing 35 items in my download queue, but when I attempt to download I get a message "Unable to check for available downloads. Network connection timed out."
I e-mailed Apple Tech Support multiple times, and received their standard list of links for things to try. So far I have reinstalled iTunes, turned off my Norton Firewall, checked the program rules settings, flushed the dns cache, and unchecked the "allow simultaneous downloads" box. Still no luck.
Apple's last e-mail requested I send them my account info so they could reset my password, and check my system. I'm still waiting for that to happen.
I'd appreciate any user suggestions for this problem.

Fundamentally it is an apple itunes server issue - if you have a lot of downloads the "check for downloads" request can take longer than the default windows internet connection timeout setting - which is 30 seconds on more recent versions of windows.
You can work around it though - without requiring apple to "segment" your download list, by adding a windows registry setting.
Apple re-enabled my downloads after I was burgled and then I was stuck - my "check for downloads" was always timing out - and the support guy had no clue - so I went digging, and found a a microsoft article here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181050 which tells you how to change change that default timout value by adding a registry setting. Besides adding the ReceiveTimeout setting detailed on that page - I also changed the KeepAliveTimeout - just in case.
HKEYCURRENTUSER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ReceiveTimeout
which I set to 180000 milliseconds (3 mins)
HKEYCURRENTUSER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\KeepAliveTimeout
which I set to 181000 milliseconds (3 mins and 1 second)
Use regedit to make the change - both settings are DWORDS with decimal values. You'll need to restart your PC to apply the change.
After the change and restart and one initial failed attempt the request for downloads worked - when the apple itunes server responded after 2 minutes !!

Checking for Available Downloads - ERROR

When going to the "Check for Available Downloads" drop down (because there are pending transactions), I click and wait for my downloads to begin. i get the error "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later".
I am currently fully connected to the iTunes store and searching around on it. I have downloaded the newest version of iTunes and made sure that my credit card information is up to date and loaded properly.
Why does this continue to happen?

I am having the same prob. I have been for a while and i dont know how to fix it. I was hoping I could find an answer here

HT1725 where is "check for available downloads? My last two purchases are incomplete, the money has gone from my account but I aint got the goods!

My last two purchases are incomplete, missing half of both albums. The "support" says "go to Store/check for available downloads" ....where the **** is "check for available downloads" ?? Never had this prob before.

Ok so I found it. BUT! it says there are no downloads available...what has happened to the other 16 or so tunes I have paid for? I "reported a problem" but what/how will they respond?

ITunes does not allow me to download at Store "You do not have authority to write in iTunes Media files. Adapt your authorisation in explorer and check for available downloads in Store

As administrator of my pc icannot download musc/video from Store: the message (translated from Dutch) "You do not have authority to write in iTunes Media files. Adjust your authorisation in explorer and check for available downloads in Store

Hey! I had the same problem you did just today when I was trying to get my second iPhone to sync. What you need to do with music or anything extra that you doing you have to creat a second playlist or picture or anything that you would like to use, so that you can add to the second device that you are going to be using. I am not sure if that will help but it helped me out a lot!! Good luck!

Where can i find check for available downloads on ibooks?,

Where can I find check for available downloads on ibooks?

Hello samantha0719,
not really sure about your question.
Do you have the the iBooks App? You can download
it for free from the App store on your iPhone. If you
already have it your ahead of the game.
Select iBooks, at the top right of the screen select Store.
At the bottom right you can select Purchased to see a list
of ePubs you have downloaded.
Or select Search then select the search bar at top and type
in a favorite title, author or maybe even free books.
Hope this gets you started,
A

"Unable to check for available downloads" since upgrade to 8.1

It appears a number of people are having this problem but are all under different headings...
I can purchases new music/items and have them download right away, but it appears anything that was waiting for me to download prior to the upgrade to 8.1 is stuck somewhere. When checking for Downloads (no matter which way you do it) I get an error that says "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes store is temporarily unavailable."
Troubleshooting guides suggest ensuring your firewall is allowing all permissions appropriately... I even turned them to "ask for permission" so that I would know it was trying. No luck.
When is Apple going to recognize there's a problem? If I can purchase new items and get them to download right away, clearly there is no issue with ISP or Firewall.

Having the same issue. I even downloaded a rental last night to have it disappear this morning and it says I have purchased the rental but never downloaded it. I have played with all network settings include as open as possible and no luck.

How to "check for available downloads" on IPhone

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