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Feb 19, 2015 7:39 AM in response to guerjamby gail from maine,Who originally "installed" them, and who purchased them can be two different things. I have apps on my iPhone 5s that were purchased with an Apple ID that I haven't used in over 5 years. When I set up the phone from a backup of my iPhone 4, they were copied onto my device (as they should have been). So, I installed them with my current Apple ID signed onto the device. However, I originally purchased them with my old Apple ID, so they still require the password to that ID to update.
There is simply no way an App can get tied to an Apple ID that was not the one that did the purchasing (or original download).
You will have to delete them and re-purchase (or re-download if free) to get your Apple ID tied to them.
Cheers,
GB
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Feb 19, 2015 7:43 AM in response to Phil0124by guerjam,This procedure doesn't work for me. Although my apple id (and I'm sure of it) was used to purchase and download the apps in question, updating them still prompts me for my wife's apple id. Even after trying the procedure you described. Something seems wrong with the software.
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Feb 19, 2015 7:51 AM in response to guerjamby gail from maine,You deleted them from your Mac? And then went to the App Store and re-purchased them?
GB
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Apr 6, 2015 5:49 PM in response to sengguohongby Allie D.,I just called Apple and was able to fix this issue!!!! So I wanted to share....
The app I was trying to upgrade was iPhoto. All I did was delete iPhoto and reinstall it from the App store. When I went to reinstall it, it asked me for my Apple ID and that was that. I didn't back up my photos prior to the uninstall because I had them all on another computer. Magically, they were just in iPhoto when I opened up the freshly downloaded version. I guess Apple kept them on my computer. If I were to do it again I would have backed them up just in case though. I hope this helps someone out there.
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Apr 6, 2015 7:41 PM in response to Allie D.by Dah•veed,There is no magic involved, the photos are not contained in the iPhoto app. All of the photos are stored in the iPhoto library.
Mac HD/~/Pictures/iPhoto library
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Apr 28, 2015 10:32 AM in response to sengguohongby azra.82,I had the same problem with App Store on my iMac. Here's what helped me:
Start the App Store on your Mac and klick on the star-icon (top left in App store window) then klick on "account" (you find it to the right in App store view) and then type in the new Apple ID and password that you want to use to update and download apps...
Hope this helps you.
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May 3, 2015 6:41 AM in response to mralph72by PJ Wake,You're right. I bet your daughter hasn't done what Dah.veed suggested, because the process he refers to is substantially fiction.
It's nothing like what he describes. At least now. Perhaps it was like that once.
When you first go to the app store on a new Mac, rather than the carefully gated procedure he describes, filled with warnings and clear indication of what you're doing, it simply pops up a request for your Apple ID, with no indication that it's going to bind it to the "free" applications.
You don't get any warnings at all until you go into the App store and run Update explicitly from there after it has already completed the application binding.
At that point there is a warning, in tiny, barely legible print, framed in language that will only have any meaning once you've discovered this problem.
That this process is broken is something of an understatement. Perhaps it was fine under Mavericks, but under Yosemite, it's seriously flawed.
All you can do is throw the applications in the trash and re-purchase them. A top notch job in alienating new users from Apple.
Even better. New Macs come with Yosemite pre-installed, complete with an iPhoto install that won't run on Yosemite.
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May 30, 2015 9:40 AM in response to ChewbaccaFreakby Nir0,Thanks for the help!
It worked! But once u delete the apps you have to buy them and they are pretty expencive.
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Jun 24, 2015 3:57 PM in response to sengguohongby sunk818,I'm using 10.10.3. Not having an issue if you Sign Out of the old Apple ID. Delete the App from LaunchPad (click on the app until the app wiggles, then move it to trash). Open App Store, then get it again. Enter in your new Apple ID, it should download okay. I was getting an error, but it was because the other user was signed in to the Mac App Store.
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Jul 2, 2015 10:54 AM in response to sunk818by ilselets,LOL, this problem is terrible for things like Xcode at work. Xcode is free on the Mac anyway so why does it have to be associated and all that.
I keep needing to update and go to one of my coworkers for him to type in his password even though this has become "my" mac for the last year.
I hope to fix this once and for all, but it would be nice if some more thought was put into these kinds of things. I can't think of why something free like Xcode requires an app id in the first place. I'd understand if it was the beta version or something and it's exclusive in some way, but I just want the standard release.
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Jul 14, 2015 11:48 PM in response to ChewbaccaFreakby chaimon771,thank you ChewbaccaFreak!
so many time I try to fined out the solution!
and you let all know what simple is that!!!
it's great!
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Jul 22, 2015 6:32 PM in response to gail from maineby Terry_N,gail from maine wrote:
That may work for free apps (don't know), but it won't work for paid apps. If a paid app was purchased by another Apple ID and you now want it associated with your current Apple ID, you have to buy it under that Apple ID.
Hence the very first clause of my post:
Terry_N wrote:
If the software in question is something your Apple ID has also already "purchased" (including for free), [...]
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Jul 22, 2015 7:04 PM in response to Phil0124by Terry_N,Phil0124 wrote:
Nope. Apps are forever tied to the Apple Id that bought / downloaded them
That can never be changed no matter what you do. Whether Free or Paid it does not matter, they work the same way.
They are licensed to an Apple Id and only that Apple Id can be used to update them.
Could you refer me to some reference on that still being true in the latest versions of OS X? Given the ability to read the bundle contents and execute an app bought by another Apple ID, there's no inherent reason the App Store app could not swap out the license within an existing bundle for a different one. Any part of the bundle that could be read could be reused in the updated bundle, and, e.g., re-signed (or however they implement the association).
I guess it's possible that when I told it to update, it just silently deleted the existing bundle associated with the other account and downloaded a full copy of the latest version, rather than only a patch, but outwardly it did just as I said. (Come to think of it, when it comes to apps, as opposed to OS updates, do they ever download an incremental update, rather than a full copy of the newer version? If not, then insofar as they ever "update" apps, it did it for me with a different Apple ID than was used to install it originally.)
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Jul 22, 2015 7:23 PM in response to Dah•veedby Terry_N,Dah•veed wrote:
Cardinal rule of ASC, test the advice that you give BEFORE posting. [stunning maturity omitted]
lol I did. Where do you think I got those steps? I found this thread with a search because I was having this problem myself. Why would I spend my time composing a made-up non-solution to a problem I'm having rather when I could put that time into continuing to search for something that did work?
Dah•veed wrote:
Only the apps bought with an Apple ID will appear in the Purchases pane when signed into the MAS with that Apple ID, no others.
Is reading a post before replying to it not also a cardinal rule of ASC? The very first clause of my post:
Terry_N wrote:
If the software in question is something your Apple ID has also already "purchased" (including for free), [...].
Where did I imply unpurchased software would show up in a user's Purchases pane?
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Jul 23, 2015 6:49 PM in response to Terry_Nby gail from maine,Maybe you could explain what you mean by:
Terry_N wrote:
Given the ability to read the bundle contents and execute an app bought by another Apple ID, there's no inherent reason the App Store app could not swap out the license within an existing bundle for a different one. Any part of the bundle that could be read could be reused in the updated bundle, and, e.g., re-signed (or however they implement the association).What do you mean when you are talking about "reading bundle contents"? What are licenses for an "existing bundle"?
Can you explain what it is you are talking about? Is this something outside the purview of a normal app user? I am not familiar with the terminology you are using here?
Cheers,
GB