UPDATE ITUNES ON PC MAC OS

For this reason, and given that iTunesHelper. What about Windows While macOS users at least have access to some new Apple Music features like Live Lyrics and Spatial Audio through the Music app, Windows users are still stuck in time with. Note that iTunes will sooner or later automatically re-enable the process. To disable iTunesHelper.exe and prevent it from starting up with Windows, uncheck it under the MSConfig startup tab (Start > Run > Type MSConfig > Hit Enter).

Here again, you should not disable iTunesHelper from starting with you Mac - it consumes very little system resources, and disabling it could cause seemingly unrelated, thus hard-to-troubleshoot issues.ĭisable iTunesHelper.exe in Windows (XP/Vista/7)

UPDATE ITUNES ON PC MAC OS

On Mac OS X, the process is listed under System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items, along with other startup services. The iTunesHelper process also runs on Apple computers. The iPodService.exe process is self-explanatory, and disabling it in recent versions of iTunes will prevent iTunes from detecting iPods you may connect to your PC (or Mac, as the case may be). You may also run across other iTunes services called iPodService.exe or ApplMobileDeviceService.exe, on Windows - these are more recent additions to the iTunes ecosystem, and, like iTunesHelper.exe, should preferably not be disabled unless you are critically running low on computer memory. If your computer isn't crawling to a halt for lack of RAM, let iTunesHelper.exe run in the background. If your computer critically lacks memory ( RAM), you can kill the iTunesHelper.exe process keep in mind that iTunes will not launch automatically whenever you try to sync your iPod or iPhone.

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