Comments on: iTunes keeps asking to allow or deny incoming connections

By: Michail

Michail — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:10:35 +0000

This doesn’t really work – what helped me was to disable Home Sharing from the Advanced menu

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:12:02 +0000

I have also had this problem. There is no need to delete ITunes, just download and reinstall, this will fix it.
I have done this on my Macbook Pro and Mac Pro and they are now both free of this annoying popup message.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:08:15 +0000

This box pops up so fast that it cant be read on my computer. It only happens when i turn on my computer so im not sure if its related to the itunes problem.

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:07:40 +0000

i have this problem ,but when i try this method, it only works once, then when i load up itunes again, same problem. ive looked all around forums etc, to no avail!

By: johannes.mac

johannes.mac — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:02:39 +0000

I’ve had this bug for about one year and figured out that turning the library sharing off would “fix” it.
What Frank said about package-signing could probably be the issue on my iTunes, I’ve added some extra genre pictures.

Well, I can forsake on sharing but not on the genre pictures, so I would keep it off. But it is good to now what the problem is.

By: duncan

duncan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:44:34 +0000

To the comment “that isn’t a bug,” I say “Bollocks”

If Apple simply provided the “Always Allow” option when it detected a change and displayed this warning dialog then it could be said to be ‘not a bug’.

The incompetence and user-contempt that the current implementation displays can only be described as a bug and one Apple could fix very simply as I described above.

Lazy and dumb Apple.

Please fix this.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:12:17 +0000

Finally! I’ve been trying to stop this popup for months! I eventually turned off my firewall because I couldn’t stand it anymore. I turned it back on now and everything is fine. I didn’t change any icons either. So I don’t know what caused it in the first place.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:38:30 +0000

If you have the firewall enabled and change the icon (or probably any other file) within the iTues application package, you’ll get the “incoming connections” message every time you open iTunes.

Re-installing iTunes as described will fix the problem, until you try changing the icon.

It’s probably some package-signing security thing, but annoying for those who want both the firewall and a custom icon.

By: clem vall

clem vall — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:07:36 +0000

that isn’t a bug, I had the same problem for sometime looking arround apple’s website I found an article saying that the registered softwares like apple’s (itcan happen with other programs too) make an integrity check of the app before being allowed throug the firewall… if something is different, the system ask the user to allow the connections or not,
some times changing the icon with candybar can cause this

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:47:29 +0000

I was plagued by this problem and was surprised it hasn’t yet been addressed by Apple (to my knowledge). It was very obnoxious, and I admit I was one person who turned my firewall off to prevent the pop up from happening.

Your fix seemed to work on my MBP. Thanks!