Multiple game center accounts for single appleid?

Same problem here, using Facebook also complicates it!!

My wife and I use the same IPad, I have an Apple ID, she plays the games. Whenever she tries to access her games through the FB App it shows my name as the player. The FB App control in the IPad Settings only allows one account to be linked. I've added the second Game Center user as posted above and she logs in yet it still doesn't work correctly!

Very frustrating!! :)

Hi I've just seen this - and I am having the same problem with my son's game center. How did you solve it? I contacted Apple but they were not very helpful... My son and daughter both play dragonvale on their ipods and have a nickname each which were both set up using my apple id. However on Monday my son signed out of his (which he never normally does but did on this occasion) and now when he enters the apple id and password on his ipod when entering game center it brings up his sister's game center profile and not his. We tried on her ipod and it still brings up hers not his. He is still visible as a friend on hers so we can see the account is still 'alive' but how on earth do we get his back. If he tries to log in with his nickname under 'view account' it says ' this nickname is taken by another player' but that player is HIM. Is there any way we can sort this - even tried deleting his sister's account which was set up after his and she is not that interested in it - to see if hers went would my son's come back - but no joy! he doesn't want to lose it and have to start again as he has been on dragonvale for months and has lots of achievemnets and is at a high level.... any help would be appreciated!

Many thanks

Having exactly the same problem. My wife and I are playing poker, but since one day I signed onto her ipad as my gamecenter ID, both our accounts have somehow become mixed. Whenever she logs in, it welcomes her on her ID, but plays on my ID. And vice versa. Not just on the ipad, but on either of our phones. Neither is this a shared AppleID, but totally separate AppleID's

We can't play on our own accounts, and have spent days trying to fix it. Everything from logging in/out, starting from game center, uninstalling Facebook. Uninstalling game on all units. Restarting phones and ipad after each variation.

This is doubly alarming, because thank god we're married and trust each other. If we weren't how does this huge oversight (bug) account for in-app purchases?

Hi. The game Center ID is the nickname You assigned it so Go to reset apple ID password put that nickname in and then reset the password. Then log back into game center with the nickname not the apple id.

You can link multiple game centres to the main apple ID if it's for children, determined by the date of birth when you create them, so kids can login with their own password and not the main apple ID password.

Incidentally the game in question for me was Dragonvale too and I emailed the developer of the app and asked if they could transfer the game to another game Center ID which i created (before I realised how to fix the issue) and they said they could, so that was another option had I not resolved my login issue. For this create a new account and then email the developer and get them to transfer the game content from the original ID to the new one, they're more than happy to help.

Hope this helps.

This does not work for me. My only two choices are to create a new Apple ID account or to change the game center nickname. When I change the game center nickname on one device, it changes the nickname on all of the devices. What am I doing wrong?

this is somewhat maddening - I have searched many threads but no one seems to have an answer - I have the same problem as Rogue creative - nickname shows up on both phones that are on the same apple id - will keep looking around the web

We just had some Game Center issues. Here is how you can create multiple users on the same apple ID.

Go to Game Center.

If there is a username already visible, tap where the user name is and hit the "X" to the right of it.

Touch "create new account".

Go through the prompts.

If the account is for a minor, it will not ask for an email address. A child will use their nickname along with their password to login. BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN AND KEEP IN A SAFE PLACE. Apple's Game Center support cannot view minor accounts for some reason!

If the account is for an adult, they will need their own email address.

Finish going through prompts. Now you each have your own login and password.

Now each user can go to the game they want to play. They may be prompted to select which user is playing and login.

I am not sure why some of you would have the name change on all devices. It could be an automatic synching issue when connecting to iTunes or via iCloud. Check your iTunes preferences.

Hope this will help some of you.

Also, although you each created your own username and password, even with different email addresses for login purposes, apps will still be purchased under the original iTunes account. If a user wants to make a purchase on their own individual devices, they will be required to enter the password for the iTunes account, not the password for their Game Center account.

Hi,

I did exactly as you have done, so my son has a Game Center on his ipod with a nickname, and I have my one on my ipad, with different nickname. We both play Dragonvale and are linked as friends so I can 'visit' his game and he mine. Both use my Apple ID, which I know because when either of us buy jewels in the game it charges my account and the password I enter is the same.

He logged me out of my Game Center last week on my ipad and logged himself in, but when I went to log myself back in on the ipad it now won't recognise my version of Game Center.

Any ideas how I can get this to work now? I can still see my version of Dragonvale and if I try logging in as him and amending the Nickname to mine it says it's already in use, so it's still there.

This is driving me crazy, Apple support have not been able to help :-(

Thanks

Hi. I realised that my game Center ID was actually the nickname I had assigned it and so I went to the reset apple ID password put that nickname in and then reset the password. I'm back in and all is ok. My sons game Center uses my actual apple ID as the login.

You can link multiple game centres to the main apple ID if it's for children, determined I suppose by the date of birth when you create them, so kids can login with their own password and not the main apple ID password.

Incidentally the game in question for me was Dragonvale and I emailed the developer of the app and asked if they could transfer the game to another game Center ID (before I realised how to fix the issue) and they said they could, so that was another option had I not remembered my login.

Hope this helps.

Thank you, it worked! Saved a lot of tears for my nephew who's also playing Dragonvale. For those who just stumbled to this page in search for solution for the same problem, go to iforgot.apple.com to change the password of the Game Center nickname you wish to recover. Enter the nickname in the Apple ID field and proceed. Then, in case of Dragonvale, run the game and enter the existing nickname and new password.

Hi There,

You seem to be very knowledgeable on this topic. I have one apple id and I am trying to create two additional Game Center accounts for my children. When I hit create new account it asks for an email address, I only have my email address which is linked to my apple id so it won't let me create a new account. I went and got a gmail account and create one new account but any game they tried to play that I was already playing, it took them to me game status instead of starting fresh. Please help.

Lisa

Hi there,

I had a second game center account in my son iPod and, after iOS update to release 7, I found the first one fixed in iPod because I insert the apple id in game center login page.

To set the second game center account, I only insert the game center account, and related password, instead of apple id at game center login page.

This solve the question

Thanks to all

Antonello

Hello,

I play real racing 3 on my iPhone 5. I bought yesterday an iPad air and when I entered my Apple ID, Game Center won't log in to my account, it wants me to add a new nickname. I have my game centre account on my iPhone with all my friends so I don't want to make a new account for iPad. How can I transfer my Game Center account from my iPhone to my iPad?

Thanx in advance!

After 2 hours worth of searching with no answer, I decided to run a test and it worked. This is what I did to have multiple Game Center IDs on iOS7. (People responding may have over looked this detail because they assumed it was obvious, but it wasn't)

Answer: you MUST have multiple Apple ID accounts, however, you use the main one to log in to SETTINGS > ITUNES & APP STORE.

1. I deleted the Alternate Email Address associated with my account

2. I created an entire new Apple ID with this email address

3. I login in to SETTINGS > ITUNES & APP STORE with my original Apple ID (credit card on file)

4. I login to Game Center, iCloud, etc... with my kid's NEW Apple ID

So purchasing still goes under our shared account and game center, iCloud, etc... go under my kid's Apple ID.

^ ^ ^ ^ This is the simple straight forward answer I was looking for ^ ^ ^ ^