Trouble accessing purchased TV shows both individual episodes and season passes missing since iPhone 4S was released. Anyone else having the same trouble?
I have this trouble anytime I access iTunes--whether it is via desktop, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, or Apple TV 2. I can't view all of my previously purchased material.
Please help. I called in to support days ago and was told there was an issue being worked on, but now it's nearing the two week mark and that is unacceptable to me.
Hi Everyone
After a month of going between iCloud & iTunes support on this - where we even were even at the point that iTunes attempted to restore our purchases but it still wasn't restoring all missing purchased episodes & those that were restored weren't appearing on all devices, we found the answer to our problem... And I bet it will solve your problem.
Log into our iTunes from your computer
Go to the store via iTunes (this worked on iTunes 11)
Click on your account
Under your account, there is an option for "Hidden Purchases" - click on this
Under each media tab it tells you what purchases have been selected to be hidden
Choose the media where you have purchase missing - for us it was TV Shows
Choose the individual episode / series / item
There will be an option to unhide - click on this button for each item
We found for iPad / iPhone we could see most of why was lost. On Apple TV 2, we had to reset / restore
This actually fixed our problem - I should point out that at no point did we select for any of our purchases to be "hidden" in the cloud and I would say this is a bug in iTunes / iCloud that Apple needs to address. I also think that an option for hidden purchases makes no sense for the majority of iTunes / iClouds users.
Hope this fix works for you - Cheers.
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