My ipod Touch keeps saying, authorization failed. Please connect to Itunes. when ever i try to download an app?

you MUST do THREE things FIRST....

1. Make sure you have an itunes store account active (do in itunes create account) AND it MUST have proof of your ID logged in and a funding source, debit or credit card or bank account direct debit or a GIFT card (if you use a gift card it can take up to extra 14 days to prove your ID and fully activate the account). You must be logged into the itunes store on itunes.

2. under the STore menu in itunes make sure your COMPUTER is 'Authorised' to that store account (you will need to enter your store password for this)

3. the ipod is plugged in and paired to that itunes (say yes to the pair - waring all existing items will be deleted message).

the ipod will then sync to itunes and get ALL its music and store account info and settings form itunes. (you configure the ipod in itunes when its plugged in its settings appears (for that ipod Only)

The ipod is designed to work with and be the slave to itunes on the computer to which its paired. each iPod can only be paired to ONE computer at a time but each computer can have up to 255 ipods on the same library/Account..

If you do not pair a ipod to a computer you cannot alter its settings.(settings are altered in itunes with the ipod attached its settings summary page appears once plugged in and that's where you alter the settings for THAT ipod only(

If you pair your ipod to a new computer it overwrites what's on it. (say yes to the Pair with these computer message)

Simply dragging music onto an ipod does NOT make that music playable it then acts as hard disk. To make the music playable you MUST use itunes to sync with it as only itunes can put the music files in the correct file names (not the same as on the computer) in hidden folders and create the hidden indexes for them to be playable.

When you pair the ipod to a computer it erases ALL the previous library and tracks and replaces it with what the current computer want it to.

if you want to erase the ipod you select RESTORE form the ipod's tab in itunes then it re formats and re installs the ipods firmware resetting everything to default values and removing the lock (except for the touch which asks for the code to allow this)

the ipod needing a master player to sync with is NOT unique to apple Creative, Zune, Sony al have one of one sort or another.

Same problem here! At first I thought the things I was searching for weren't real apps...and then I searched for angry birds and knew something was wrong! Good thing I looked up angry birds or I wouldn't have tried to look up those other apps later when the app store is working again. Haha hopefully it gets fixed soon!

You must authorize the computer first. Go to Store (im not sure but its on the menu bar of itunes) then go click "Authorize Computer" and that's it. Don't be pissed its christmas