Why can't I transfer purchases from my old Apple ID to my new Apple ID?

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Torv Carlsen Author

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Why can't I transfer purchases from my old Apple ID to my new Apple ID?

Posted on Sep 23, 2021 1:39 PM

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Answer 1

Torv Carlsen Author

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Sep 23, 2021 2:06 PM in response to Katana-San

I do have Family Sharing.

I have two Apple ID's, one for purchases a second Apple ID for iCloud. Family sharing is associated with the Apple ID for iCloud. I simply want to associate my thousands of dollars of purchases from my old Apple ID to the Apple ID with iCloud. It should be a simple matter of making one Apple ID dominant over the other. I don't understand why this simple task is so difficult.

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Sep 23, 2021 1:51 PM in response to Torv Carlsen

Torv Carlsen wrote:

Why can't I transfer purchases from my old Apple ID to my new Apple ID?

The short answer is "because Apple says you can't". The longer answer is that no one here in this user-to-user technical support forum can answer questions about why Apple does or does not do something.

Why are you creating a new Apple ID? If your email address changes, you simply update your existing Apple ID with the new email.

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Katana-San

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Sep 23, 2021 2:48 PM in response to Torv Carlsen

Hello again~ I would agree with *IdrisSeabright’s* last post and move the storage to the Apple ID associated with your purchases and also with the other post about the why’s and wherefore’s of Apple’s decision making :) Good luck.

~Katana-San~

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