Comments on: Many people turning Genius off

By: Stev

Stev — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:20:37 +0000

Genius hangs my iTunes so I cannot turn it off, nor can I use iTunes as its hung.

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:35:07 +0000

I got genius turned off, but how do I get shuffle songs back?

By: Col.inB

Col.inB — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:47:48 +0000

I hear ya. It’s amazing to me that the people who don’t have a problem have a hard time believing those that do. I have the same trouble with itunes Genius – it’s rendered the whole program completely useless.

By: cleek

cleek — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:40:08 +0000

“you need to go to the MENU item named “Store”…Then select “Turn Off Genius”. ”

sounds great. except that menu item is disabled while Genius is updating. and Genius never stops updating.

iTunes has become total crap.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:12:36 +0000

You don’t need to go to the iTunes Store – you need to go to the MENU item named “Store” (that’s at the top of your iTunes window between “Controls” and “Advanced”). Then select “Turn Off Genius”. The sidebar has nothing to do with turning on/off genius.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:41:47 +0000

The problem isn’t that everyone is stupid and read or figure out how to turn Genius off, it’s that it seems to react differently to certain computers. I can read. I know how to turn the darn thing off–it just won’t let me. I initially selected to turn it off. Then one day it was suddenly back on when I opened iTunes. Now, whenever I open iTunes it immediately says “Genius Accessing iTunes Store” but it never finishes updating or sending the info and when I try to go to the store while it’s doing that I just get stuck on the white iTunes Store screen forever. And since it won’t connect to the store I cannot turn Genius off. Ever, apparently. Nor can I get any song info oralbum artwork or buy anything with my remaining iTunes store balance which is now rendered useless. Now I’m stuck with a program with which only half of the features work. That’s ‘Genius’ alright.

By: David Letterman

David Letterman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:37:23 +0000

There is no off position on the Genius switch.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:10:02 +0000

I want iTunes Genius completely gone from my computer, not just ‘shut off’. When it is ‘on’ it freezes iTunes and crashes my computer!! It’s the worst automatic application ever by Apple. I always have the option of off selected, and it appears to randomly turn on after so many times of going to iTunes and I don’t realize it until it has frozen……It should be an option to install, not a part of an upgrade!!

Any suggestions on how to completely get rid of it?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:04:19 +0000

I wouldn’t mind Genius so much except that everything else in iTunes has to wait while it does its synching when I start up iTunes. I’m turning Genius off.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:32:05 +0000

My 16GB iPod touch has 14.52GB of memory. That definately doesn’t round up to 16.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:20:01 +0000

I have a question…..Why does the “8 Gig” Ipod Nano I just bought only have 7.42 gigs of actual memory? Since when did 7.42 gigs round up to 8? Also, why is it acceptable to round up memory at all, even if it was 7.5 gigs?

By: Aivan

Aivan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:51:50 +0000

well i finally did turn Genius off,click on the main menu at the very top of the window where you read (file,edit,view,controls,STORE,advanced and help)click on store and the click turn genius off and thats it! it was really easy just confussing. good luck to all

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:46:00 +0000

….or – you can click “help” type “genius” and there is an option shown to turn Genius on or off. It is in the menus – but you guys obviously don’t like to use those…

…and help is just what it says on the box.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:43:06 +0000

Dan had it correct, I VJ and have over 40 thousands songs and videos, takes forever to have genius running. I simply turned off airport then opened the genius bar went t store clicked turn off, and, viola done!

By: Trevor Hopkins

Trevor Hopkins — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:16:22 +0000

This is horrible – apple are looking increasingly corporate and unpleasant with this kind of marketing lead feature. Maybe PCs are cool after all.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:31:30 +0000

I have several thousand songs and the genius results take FOREVER to update when I plug in my iPod. Simply turning off the sidebar so that I don’t see the does not solve the problem.

How about making the update optional? I usually plug in my iPod five minutes before leaving for work so that I can update podcasts. I don’t want a genius update. I want it to finish asap so that I can hit the road.

By: Spendabuk

Spendabuk — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:40:01 +0000

> he meant click on the Store menu, at the top of the screen.

then what!?!?
which menu item? it’s really not obvious

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:40:51 +0000

Arsalan, when Dan said “Click on Store”, he meant click on the Store menu, at the top of the screen. You don’t have to go to the Apple Store to turn Genius off.

By: Arsalan

Arsalan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:19:15 +0000

Guys I have been using the net for over ten years, and I can’t believe I’m saying this but even after reading your instructions, I still don’t know how to disable Genius!!!

Dan, I’ve followed your instructions specifically and with the internet connection closed, I simply cannot open Genius nor can I open the itunes store.

Why is it that I have to go to the itunes store to disable Genius anyway!? How unbelievably counter-intuitive. And those tiny tiny tiny buttons below genius were invisible to my eye before I read about them on this page.

PS to all fans of Genius: It’s not the intrusion that I dislike about genius, it’s how much it has single-handedly slowed my entire computer down (a very new macbook, if you must know). This is an application to people who either obsessively download music or need a program to tell them what type of music they would probably like. I have friends for that, thanks very much.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:25:19 +0000

Gilbert,

Genius crashes my ITunes too when it tries to send my information to ITunes. To turn it off, first close your internet connection before opening ITunes so that Genius will not activate and crash while you are trying to turn it off. With your internet connection closed, open ITunes.

Then, click on the Genius icon on the left hand side of the screen and select “Open”.

Once Genius is open, click on “Store” and the “Turn Genius Off” option will be available for selection (if Genius is not Open, the Turn Genius Off option cannot be selected).

This feature was poorly conceived and designed. Ironic that Apple named it “Genius”.