Last night I was setting up Mother-In-Law with her new iPhone. This necessitated (among other things) installing iTunes on her laptop, and setting up an iTunes account. Which caused me a noticeable amount of hassle, all things considered.

Setting up the account should be easy. Except it’s not – bearing in mind that it’s not something that just techies do. Maybe as a techie I read too much into the entire thing. I don’t know. The main issue was with setting up a password, believe it or not. I tried the first one – say bumbag99 – , and got this error…

The full error message - click to embiggenify

The first part, by the password itself, looks like this…

Information about the format of the iTunes password

Fine. I’ve got letters and numbers, maybe I can’t type. So here we go again, ‘bumbag99′.

And lo, the error returns.

Then you finally see the bit at the top – completely separate to the main password error…

An extra error - nice to know about it

Nice of them to let you know everything at once, and in one message, isn’t it?

Bumbag99, and all done. Only took three goes.