Get Instant Access to Your Account Settings for Media and Purchases on Your iPhone - Gadget Hacks

There are galore ways to unfastened up the media relationship settings for your Apple ID connected your iPhone, but they each necessitate 2 oregon much steps. However, determination is simply a hidden instrumentality Apple hasn't told anybody astir that tin get determination successful one, and it's not Siri.

When you pat connected your Apple ID successful the Settings app, you tin presumption immoderate of your relationship settings with speedy links to your subscriptions and default payment, among others. But accidental you privation to spot your relationship info related to Apple's integer media services, including the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Store, Apple News+, Podcasts, TV, and Books. You indispensable spell to Settings –> Apple ID –> Media & Purchases –> View Account.

You tin besides presumption your Apple ID relationship settings related to integer media successful astir of the aforementioned apps.

• App Store: Tap your illustration picture, past your Apple ID.
• Books: Tap your illustration picture, past "View Account Settings," and past "View Account Settings."
• iTunes Store: Scroll to the bottom, pat your Apple ID, past "View Apple ID."
• Music: Tap your illustration picture, past "Account Settings."
• Podcasts: Tap your illustration picture, past your Apple ID.
• TV: Tap your illustration picture, past your Apple ID.

These media relationship settings amusement things like:

• Apple ID (tapping it volition spell to appleid.apple.com to edit it)
• Family Sharing
• Manage Payments
• Country/Region
• Add Money to Account
• Gifts
• Ratings and Reviews
• Personalized Recommendations
• Movies Anywhere
• Subscriptions
• Purchase History
• Account Access (to negociate third-party services with entree to Music, TV, etc.)
• Hidden Purchases
• Newsletters and Special Offers
• And more

To get faster entree to this menu, you tin physique a shortcut connected your Home Screen that opens close to it. Open the Shortcuts app, commencement a caller shortcut, and adhd the pursuing actions:

1. URL (with "itms-ui://" successful the field)
2. Open URLs

That's it. Next, pat the sanction up top. You tin rename it and take an icon and colour if you want. Otherwise, prime "Add to Home Screen." You tin besides alteration the sanction and icon here, but this lone applies to the Home Screen, App Library, and Spotlight Search — not to the Shortcuts app itself. Tap "Add" to prevention the bookmark connected your Home Screen.

Tap your caller bookmark, and the URL scheme volition unfastened the modal expanse for the relationship settings. You'll person to authenticate yourself with Face ID, Touch ID, oregon your passcode to presumption the settings, oregon you whitethorn person to motion successful with your Apple ID and password.

You tin besides delegate the shortcut to Back Tap oregon inquire Siri to unfastened it if you don't privation to unfastened it from the Home Screen, App Library, oregon Spotlight Search. With Back Tap oregon Siri, the modal expanse tin look connected apical of immoderate app. Siri won't unfastened these relationship settings without the shortcut.

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