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So I have "legacy" apps purchased or downloaded with another apple ID. I don't want any of them now, but I'm not hunting them down individually. Is there a way to sort them by ID purchased and then delete? Thx!
Mac mini, macOS 13.0
Ha, only if I had known I was making such a mistake back in the day. I know I'm not alone. So I say to apple, how can u let the same (fixable) mistake of new users fester for well over a decade? For years I've read requests to have the function to combine accounts, no matter where they originated, and as a retired developer, I know it can be done. :)
I see, but you could have simply made your MobileMe account at the time with your existing AppleID. That’s what I did. So when the shutdown of MobileMe was announced I moved my account to a iCloud account so I could keep my @me.com email address. But my original AppleID is still the primary login ID for all of it.
So my AppleID still uses my personal email as my primary login ID (which since about 2005/6 has been one of my own domain emails so it never changes again no matter what my ISP is) but my @icloud.com and my @me.com email addresses are simply alias login IDs to that same, single AppleID. I can login to my one and only AppleID with any of those three email addresses as they are all aliases to the same AppleID account.
I know none of that helps sort your situation now, but just pointing out that in the history of AppleIDs, it has never been necessary to create a new AppleID whenever Apple has introduced some new online service, or retired an existing service. Although I’ll acknowledge its not always been clear how to just keep one AppleID and use new services, or move on from old services when they’ve been retired (like MobileMe).
The only way is to hunt them down individually as there is no mechanism to sort apps by AppleID. Sign in one AppleID into the App Store and check it’s purchase history. Then sign that AppleID out and check the other one.
Wow, that's my option? I can't even print the entire list of both accounts to do a comparison! So in short, the answer is that I can't...I have to hunt each one. I sure wish on day one (and it was day one when I first purchased an app in iTunes), Apple had told me NEVER to change my apple ID, thus helping create this ridiculous situation. And then not to provide some tool to correct... even worse.
You can change your AppleID if your email changes. The primary email used as the AppleID is editable when you login to your AppleID information. It always has been. I’ve had the same AppleID since 1999 (they originated as login IDs for free Apple developer accounts), despite several email address changes in that time.
Yes, I did the same but later switched my focus to a new .me account when they came out. That was automatically converted to .iCloud (great), but the original remained. I'd now only like one account, the .iCloud. I'm thinking I could delete the first account, but then I have a large percentage of apps tethered to a dead account. I don't think the apps are deleted from a machine when the account is deleted, or are they?
Deleting the account doesn't delete the apps.
Too bad, AS THAT would be a grand solution (for me).
How to sort or find apps that have been purchased with two apple IDs?
