My previous Macbook Air would not allow me to update my iphoto. A box would appear that said "iPhoto cannot be updated because it was refunded or purchased with a different Apple ID". So I bought a new Macbook Air, and now this one won't allow me to update iPhoto either. The same box appears. How do I rectify this?
MacBook Air 13″, OS X 10.10
iPhoto is not a thing anymore. iPhoto was replaced by the Photos application quite a few years ago. It shouldn’t even run at all on a new version of macOS, like you would have on your new computer. Photos is updated simultaneously with macOS updates.
iPhoto is not a thing anymore. iPhoto was replaced by the Photos application quite a few years ago. It shouldn’t even run at all on a new version of macOS, like you would have on your new computer. Photos is updated simultaneously with macOS updates.
I am sort of stumped then. Because it’s not like you can uninstall and reinstall Photos since it’s part of the operating system, which makes things even weirder since surely then it wouldn’t be locked to some different Apple ID… How did you go between your old Mac and your new Mac. Clean install and sign in to iCloud? Migration assistant?
This could help perhaps: Get help with the Photos app on your Mac - Apple Support
Otherwise, I suggest you call / visit Apple.
Photos is only updated as part of the operating system. There is no way to update it outside of that.
Could you post a screenshot of that message you get?
I apologize for referring to photos as iphotos. My Macbook did it's automatic updates. I was notified that some applications could not be automatically updated, and I would manually have to do it. Photos was one of them, and when I clicked on update, that is when I got the notification. How do I fix this?
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