I have 2 iPhones and an iPad for family members. I use my Apple ID to manage them. How do I assign a game center account to two other family members different than the one I use to manage the devices? I'd like to play games against them but we can't all use the same game center ID.
iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.2, iPad
I got it to work. Here's what I did. I signed out of my account in game center and created a new game center id in the iphone game center login interface. I also did the same thing on my ipad for our daughter. All three devices still use my apple id for syncing but they use their own game center id's for gaming. I can also sign my doughter out of game center on my ipad and sign back in with my id when i want to play on the ipad.
Hope this helps.
Dave
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
I know this is an old thread, but I don't see any links connected to "take a look".
Here's our situation, hopefully someone can help: We set up a GameCenter account on our iPad 3 for our grandson to pIay games. We want to upgrade to a new iPad and give him the old one. However, the GameCenter account he's using is associated with my husband's AppleID. We want to give our grandson his own AppleID, change the iPad from my husband's AppleID to his AppleID, and have him play games under the GameCenter account that he's been using. He has an email address we can use for the AppleID so no problem there. However, I'm hesitant to play around with this when I don't really know what I'm doing. I know how heartbroken he would be to lose all his game progress should I mess it up. Can someone give me an idea of the steps I need to take to successfully make these changes? Thanks!
It seems like different games behave a bit differently. I only have experience with Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. The basic steps would be:
1. Do a full backup on your iPad 3 (just in case).
2. Create a new full AppleID (using an email account -- it can be one that was used previously for verification purposes)
3. Go to Settings --> Game Center --> Apple ID: xxx@email.com
4. "Sign Out" and then "Sign In" with the new Apple ID
5. Create a "Game Center Profile" (with is a nickname -- possible to change it later)
6. Start the game -- it should welcome you under the new nickname. All game data should now be associated the new AppleID
If you want to make the old iPad fully independent, it's best to do a complete reset and set up as a new iPad. Even just logging out of iCloud, iTunes & App Store, Messages, FaceTime, Mail is not enough because the downloaded apps remember who downloaded them originally and whenever there is an update, the original AppleID holder has to give approval (which is annoying). So best to start from scratch and download the game on a clean device. But the game data should all be now connected with the new AppleID and most games will pull the data over (there may be a question asked if you want to do this or start the game from scratch -- careful as you have to answer the question correctly the first time!).
If you don't get the result you want, you can restore again from the backup you made in step 1.
All I can say is .. wow! That's super detailed and helpful. Thank you! We'll follow those steps when we pass the iPad along, which should be soon - awaiting final permission from his folks. 🙂 Truly appreciate the help!
I have the same problem and I cannot find the answer anywhere. Surely this is an issue with many families. Have you figured it out?
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?
Dave, you rock! Worked perfectly on my wife's other iPad, even though we have a single "house" account to manage our Apple devices.
i have the same problem and i cant find the answer anywhere. it doesnt work that way on the itouch! help?
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
Caofromnew York a BIG thank you I retread the link trail and realised what the issue was, am now back in my game Center, using the alias login. Cheers.
@lybryant What did you do to correct this problem? IM having the same issues but no idea how to fix it.
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.
Multiple game center accounts for single appleid?
