Q: Setup Family Share with Two Apple IDs
Apple has long prevented customers from merging two Apple IDs associated with the same person. With Family Share I thought I might be able to finally share all of my purchases between my two Apple IDs. But I'm not sure how to go about it. One Apple ID is associated with an @mac.com e-mail address. The other @me.com. But when I go to add the former Apple ID account, I get a message that I can't add my own account as a family member. So I'm a little stuck.
Shouldn't I be able to add my other Apple ID as a "family member", so that I can access all the purchases made through it?
Has anyone done this, is there a trick to making it work? Can I re-assign my other Apple ID to a "different user" account to bypass this problem?
Posted on Dec 26, 2014 11:52 AM
Thanks judysings, this was helpful.
Here's what I did:
Using Family Share, you can share all of your Apple IDs with your primary account.
In order to do this you'll need to change the e-mail addresses for all of your old Apple IDs you are no longer using in iTunes.
Then, set up a user profile on your Mac for each of them. T
hen invite all of them (up to 6) from your host Apple ID, and accept the invite for each user profile in its own iCloud settings on the Mac.
Now all of the content for all of your Apple IDs will be available under the one Apple ID you are currently using on all of your devices.
Took me a while to figure this out but it works like a charm.
Posted on Dec 28, 2014 5:24 PM
