delete wrong apple ID from the appstore login

sorry to change this conversation but can anyone help me here? I HAD two devices one being ipad and other my iphone 5. I had same apple id for both devices but different passwords but now i have lost or someone has stolen my ipad and i am trying to track the device but when i try to go into apple icloud it only lets me sign me in to my iphone account. Does the ipad need to be switched on or have track my device activated or is it juts a case of whoever has my device has erased everything and started a fresh , I mean can this be done or would they need my id and password to do this ? its been missing now for about two months it was my little girl who used it and i thought it would be somewhere silly like down the side of the bed or something so i didnt really bother to much but i canfind it anywhere so just googled the tracking information but getting nowhere with it. can anybody help here?

It didn't work :( and I deleted all my apps and now I can't get them back or download them again bc the apple I'd theyre asking for is my old one... Pls help!!!

For some reason, it also systematically log off on other apps/accounts.

This has been extremely annoying. Retrying to log in and out should be the solution, yet nothing. I've just updated to 7.0.4, which has yet to resolve the issue.

As a long time android user and recently testing ios devices. This error is extremely annoying when testing mobile security on applications.

To snodsFC1978,

This is info on Find my iPhone which may be on he iPad. It must be on to work, after two months that is not likely.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2697

Your password can't be different if the Apple ID (which is your email) is the same . Your Apple ID and password are tied to your iTunes account, not the device. If you changed your password, it is changed for all. This has nothing to do with a passcode lock which you put on a device.

To N.ajuot,

That is correct. Please check before you delete an App. If it's free, no problem. But if you delete a paid App, you need the Apple ID and password to download the updated App for free. In every case, on the computer or device, you must update an App with the Apple ID that was used to purchase the App. This is true for re-downloading music also.

If you changed your email, you must change the information in your iTunes account.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2204

This worked perfectly!!

On your Mac/PC open iTunes (make sure it is updated). On the tabs on the left click on "iTunes Store". This will change the window on the right to the iTunes store. The top right corner should have your Apple ID or Sign In written. If there is an Apple ID written click on it and Sign Out. The corner should then change to "Sign In".

Now click on Sign In and sign in with the wrong/incorrect Apple ID that you no longer wish to use or update from.

Once logged in, click on the down arrow that shows when you move the pointer on the top right corner where it should now show the apple id, and select Account.

The page that opens up should have a section called "iTunes in the Cloud" with a tab on the side saying "Manage Devices".

Click on Manage Devices. Its should list your iPhone or iPad that you no longer wish to use with this Apple ID. And click Remove.

Once its confirmed click "Done" and from the top right corner select Sign Out.

I have tried all the suggestions in this thread (yes, including Chris CA's); nothing works except the option to delete apps and then re-download them. There should be a big warning sign in the 'change your appleID' page to warn you that this will happen. I changed ny ID because my old email address was due to be withdrawn; I had no choice. Everything else works with my new ID; but not updating existing apps.

Even for free apps, the time taken to re-download and then enter any setups is a real pain; for paid apps it's worse. This whole scenario is appalling.

quilkin wrote:

I have tried all the suggestions in this thread (yes, including Chris CA's); nothing works except the option to delete apps and then re-download them.

Where are you seeing an option to delete & redownload?

I changed ny ID because my old email address was due to be withdrawn; I had no choice. Everything else works with my new ID;

You changed your old AppleID to a new email address or you created a new AppleID?

Chris CA wrote:

quilkin wrote:

I have tried all the suggestions in this thread (yes, including Chris CA's); nothing works except the option to delete apps and then re-download them.

Where are you seeing an option to delete & redownload?

I changed ny ID because my old email address was due to be withdrawn; I had no choice. Everything else works with my new ID;

You changed your old AppleID to a new email address or you created a new AppleID?

Thanks for your quick response, Chris. Deleting and re-downloading was suggested in some earlier posts here.

I definately changed my old ID to a new one. My password remained the same. If I had created a new one I could understand the consequences perfectly. (Yesterday, after posting my message, I did create the old ID again to see if that would help, but of course it then needed all my credit card details again before I could use the app store, so I gave up at that point.

A repeat of my post from 2 years ago. This thread has no solution. Nor does Apple.

None of these "solutions" address the problem and none of them fix them problem. The only reason I have 2 apple IDs is poor planning by Apple. Mobile Me users were ASSIGNED an Apple ID ending in me.com, despite the fact that I already had an Apple ID. Now the me.com ID has followed me to iCloud and I can't get rid of it. When I set up iCloud I attepted to use my original Apple ID but was disallowed due to it "already being in use"...by me of course, but no matter. Now I am stuck with 2 IDs. Apple has confirmed this. Constant sync issues, icloud issues, purchase issues accross all devices. This was designed to simplify my life?

I didn't create a second Apple ID. Apple did that. I don't want 2 Apple IDs. Tough **** says Apple.

There is no fix.

Chris CA. Replying to this common question, with question after question, after question...is an irritating habit of posters in *nix forums and is unnecessary here. Please stop doing so, and just answer the question:

how does a user delete an unnecessary apple id from his/her apple store, so as to delete updates that the user no longer wants to see and cannot initiate anyway because the apple id in question is not theirs and therefore the user cannot login anyway.

Those of us that are comfortable with root access and comfortable at a shell prompt should be able to zap the offending appleID with a simple command, and then the annoying update(s) in the Apple Store would disappear.

Please, Chris CA, stop replying with unnecessary questions and just give us the terminal command that will do this.

Thanx 🙂

Slowly26354 wrote:

Chris CA. Replying to this common question, with question after question, after question...

Where did anyone do this?

..is an irritating habit of posters in *nix forums and is unnecessary here.

then perhpas you should not read responses where you see this happening...

how does a user delete an unnecessary apple id from his/her apple store,

Answered on first page over 2 years ago.

and about 10 other times in this thread alone.

*THERE* we go. Now *here* is the kind of answer I was looking for. It doesn't work on Mountain Lion root accounts, but this kind of answer is at least in the right direction.

"*THERE* we go. Now *here* is the kind of answer I was looking for. It doesn't work on Mountain Lion root accounts"

It doesn't work on any version of Mac OS because it is for jail broken iOS devices.

Sigh....here is the answer.

If you have an update in the App Store that requires signing into an account that's not yours, it's because there's an app on your machine that has, in its Contents, a special file that is causing the problem.

For example, on my machine, I discovered a copy of Final Cut Pro left over from a former user of my old laptop, that was causing the problem. The old laptop was running Snow Leopard and so I never saw this problem.

If you don't need the app anymore, simply move it to the trash, empty the trash, then reboot. That solved the problem for me.

If you want to KEEP the app, here's a way somebody suggested to fix the problem. Since the first solution worked for me, I didn't have to do this so it's not verified:

1. In the App Store, purchase the Twitter App.

2. In the Finder, right-click on the Twitter app, and choose Show Package Contents.

3. Choose Contents. There should be a file in there called _MASReciept. Copy it.

4. Right-click on the app that you suspect is causing the problem, and choose Show Package Contents.

5. Choose Contents, and in that folder, Paste the new _MASReceipt file over the old one.

Cheers 🙂