HT1977 my husband has an iPhone and an itunes account. can he purchase an app through his itunes account then connect his iphone to my laptop to then get it from there?

My spouse and i both have iphones. I also have a mac and we both have seperate itunes accounts. My spouse wants to purchase an app on my laptop and then sync it to his phone. How do we do this? Also can the app that he purchase also be put onto my phone? How do we do that?

While it is a good idea to do iOS updates on the devices, if it is working alright, you can wait. It sounds as if there is an issue with the Internet connection on the computer you are trying to do the update from. It can time out, 3rd party security software on the computer can interfere with the update. There are any number of reasons. Depending on what type of computer you are using, you can check to make sure iTunes is up to date and then try again. If using security/anti-virus software, you can temporarily disable that and attempt the update again.

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