dell 4700, Windows XP, none
This is apparently a Game Center problem. There must be somewhere that the Game Center screen names can be managed.
If anyone from Apple is monitoring this discussion may I suggest that you come up with an answer, a help link, or something because my solution to this problem is to not allow my child to use Game Center.
Hmm, where did the "edit" option go? It was there before. Oh well. And when did I give Apple permission to set up a discussion account for me? When I came to this discussion Apple went into my profile and took my first name and location and created a screen name for this discussion without asking my permission. Shame on them!
While this does not affect most of the people here, as of Oct. 17, 2011, Apple was have user id and password problems associated with the move to iCloud.
For those with Game Center issues. It appears that Nicknames in Game Center only apply to the account on the iPod and do not show up in the AppleID account online that is associated with the e-mail that is associated with the Nickname. However, the password for that AppleID is the password for the Nickname. So if you have changed the password online for the AppleID then the password for the Nickname in Game Center is changed.
I have yet to find someplace online (not on the iPod) where I can edit Game Center information or see the details of the Game Center account.
And I haven't found anyplace with any help for Game Center. Apple's philosphy seems to be:
Our stuff is intuitive. So we don't need to provide any help.
Only one person at a time will be using any of our hardware so we don't need to allow the same e-mail to be used as the contact for more that one account.
If someone has a problem it is easier for them to simply set up a new account than for us provide any support or information on how to fix their problem.
Very frustrating for parents who actually care about what their children are doing online. I stick by my previous statement. If I can't fix a problem or monitor my child's usage the solution is to prevent them from using it. And in the future that means not buying Apple products.
We're pretty sure we figured out the problem. When my daughter's set up their IPads originally we put their information in as their Apple ID. My sister thought maybe it was a problem with my daughters being so young (similar to an email address not being allowed because they are too young). We set everything up under my name and it worked perfectly.
Apple Support recommended we use fake birth years if we want to set up Apple IDs for my daughters so that is the plan today. The minimum age is 14 that is allowed.
Hope this helps!!
hollyfromorlando is correct. I had the same problem with my first iPad2, fuss around for more than an hour eventually realized it was because I setup the iPad using my daughter's information(It's a gift for her), and she was underage. After I created a new account(on iTune, not on iPad) using my own info, everything resolved.
I am very disappointed with this iPad, That error msg made no sense at all, why can't they just say: "you are too young to install any program, please ask your parent to login" or something like that? This is not the only problem I have had with this iPad, in numerous occastions, the error msg given by Apple usually make no sense at all. As a programmer myself I think this is the worst piece of software I have ever used!
"You are not a member of the Administrator group" message
