Transfer purchases to another ID

Darn. Are you saying trying to attach an email address that was used with one AppleID, to another AppleID caused your trouble?

Let's say you were using tgarcez@me.com with one AppleID, then associated this email address with a different AppleID, is that the case? If yes, then did you try to unlink the address from the first AppleID before associating it with the second AppleID?

Yes I think so, I didn't remove it first though. The main issue us the the actual appleid address is linked to two seperate appleids!

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I will have to be really careful when attempting these steps then. Right now though, I don't think I will, any time soon. iCloud Drive misses so much of the Dropbox/OneDrive functionality (namely a PROPER file/folder sharing between users) that it's of no competition for these two (and many others on the market).

I had similar problems to others posting here. I had an Apple ID I was using for some years, until Apple started changing their infrastructure, adding iCloud, etc.

Initially, Apple was incapable of using existing Apple ID's with iCloud, so users were compelled to create a second account for iCloud. As these features changed, things became a lot more messy. Instead of fixing the problem, Apple cites the EULA and washes their hands of the whole thing.

Along comes iOS 8.0 and Yosemite with a new feature called "Family Sharing". Although this is a good feature, it still does not solve the base problem; users still cannot transfer purchases between Apple ID's. How dumb do you have to be as a global company to not be able to find a way for purchases to follow an individual? The stupidity and laziness of this astounds me! It is so frustrating. Steve Jobs would never have allowed this kind of interaction with customers.

You give each user a ten digit code or something and follow that instead of the Apple ID. And, linking to email addresses, which can change frequently for most people. REALLY!?! This is how a global company chooses to deploy things to people?

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isd503 wrote:

Steve Jobs would never have allowed this kind of interaction with customers.

And you know this for a fact? Did you personally know Steve? Know exactly what he would have said? Because I'm pretty sure when this was being implemented he was still alive, and was making the decisions about how it should work.

The way Content Management works With Apple ID's is not how Apple wants it, its how the Media companies and rights owners that supply the content you wish to move want it.

They want to avoid Piracy as much as possible. Being allowed to merge ID's opens a hole slew of piracy possibilities the Media companies simply cannot accept.

There is no reason at all you ever need to create a new Apple ID at all, unless you want to have a central Family ID to share content. But the content will still belong to that ID.

For all other uses, apple id's can follow the user, if the user bothers to do a couple of simple things. Not create Apple Id's willy nilly, and keep the email address used for the Apple Id up to date. That's All.

Adding iCloud should not have affected your Apple ID. In fact people with @me.com, and @mac.com addresses were directly migrated by Apple to iCloud.

That's all dandy, but how about this. I already have a "central Family ID" that I was forced to create couple of years ago, when Apple thought everyone on Earth was single. In order to share my "central" purchases with my family, I had to create an ID for that. And that's all right, I've learned to live with that. But with the iOS8's onset of the "family share", I would really like to know what I am supposed to do NOW. I would like to get rid of the old "purchase" ID and go Apple way of family sharing. It is becoming apparent there is no easy way of doing this. So I either experiment, wasting time and risking trouble, or continue the old way. And that's THE problem, not what Jobs did or thought the other day.

And I don't see how allowing merging of IDs is a "piracy" concern. I OWN these IDs, allright? I created them, I can prove it, I can log in, whatever, It's me and my ID double, not a **** farm of ID thieves. Or don't merge them, just let me transfer purchases to another ID - I already paid for them, with my cc! Isn't it enough to prove the eligibility?

As for the email debacle, my main ID is associated with a long dead email address. It's just for the ID purposes, right? But why the **** is it suddenly such a big deal to let a user change it, FFS? It sits there, reminding me continuously about the *slight* possibility Apple might one day decide to send me some very important email to that particular address. Apple already allows logging in with alias emails, so how about letting us choose'n'change ID names from time to time?

On a totally side note, I've just learned the "h*e*l*l" word is not welcome here. HUH? Is "J*e*s*u*s" or "H*e*a*v*e*n" allowed? W...T...F...

Of course I did not know Steve Jobs personally. I see where you're going but that is NOT the point. I have been working in IT since the late 80's and when the Internet first became available to civilian users. I have watched these companies grow and their leadership respond to various activities over a very long period of time.

I know enough, as an observer over several years, to know that Jobs would very likely not have approached this topic in the same manner Apple is still pursuing it today. He was the MOST concerned Apple employee when it came to the "user experience". He wanted things to be unique, but functional. He always "found a way", even when dozens of Apple employees and executives did not agree. A CEO should never let any employee tell them something cannot be done. Jobs would have found a way to eventually fix it if he was forced to initially implement it a certain way.

Also, you did not read my post. I was forced to create the additional Apple ID's to participate in Apple's emerging technologies. I have been waiting for them to tell me I can consolidate the ID's for years now. I certainly did not create them because I wanted a new Apple ID.

There is a way to protect copyrighted materials without compromising the user experience for millions of people. Apple just needs to get off its *** and figure it out. This is a huge problem, documented all over the Internet by thousands of people. Fix it for God's sake! No bandaids, fix it right.

@Pola Rain

you can't transfer purchases, but you can change email address for your actual Apple ID 😎

Here is howto: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5621

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I know I can. The question was: can I exchange the email address with the one that I used to use with ANOTHER ID. IE is that address permanently fixed to the account or is it "released" immediately, or after a specific amount of time when I delete it. There is only one way to test it, and as tgarcez pointed it out, it is potentialy risky.

Either way, my 5 years romancing with Apple are finally over. What tipped the balance is Apple's inability to adapt. I know it's nothing new, but this time it's one too many. They have DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive and zillion of others to take example from, and yet they release crippled and ridiculous iCloud Drive that doesn't even allow you to change it's destinatnion folder on Windows, not to mention let share folders and files properly. Yes, Apple gurus have 2TB drives as their primaries and they don't have families to share folders with. Obviously everyone on Earth should follow suit. They introduce "family sharing" but don't let countless of families who'd already implemented their own workaroud solutions of multiple IDs transfer to this new ideal world. Basically, if you're single, you're all set. If you have multiple devices shared among your close ones and you don't fancy effin' around (which "family sharing" inevitably forces you to do if you had separate "store" and iCloud IDs) - you're left on your own. And oh, btw, it's 2014. Memory chips are cheaper than their potato counterparts. But Apple releases stupidly small 16GB versions of their phones, no 32GB, then charge an arm and a leg for 64GB like it's gold or something. I always praised Apple products for their imepccable quality, and thought their price tag was well justified. But this? This is a joke. Well, enough ranting, Apple evangelists will take spit in their face and say it's raining anyway, so ther's no point arguing, I guess.

If the old email address was removed from the old Apple ID)i.e changed to something else) then you can use it with your new Apple ID i if you want to.

If the Old AppleID still exist as is with that email address, then no.

I don't think you can transfer purchases, but you can change your Apple ID.

Change your Apple ID - Apple Support

Very disappointed in Apple. I think im not alone in saying that there needs to be a workaround for this especially when the original purchaser can confirm the transfer and they no longer require the App in question.

A seqcurity measure could be; coding in a licence that allows only one transfer before its locked to the ID its on?

Well this raises a very legit question; how do I transfer purchases I made with my old Apple ID to my new Apple ID? It seems only right that I should be able to have access to 10 years of purchases made with my very first Apple account. Is there a way to transfer purchases I've personally made for years with one account to any new Apple account I create? Someone please address this.

Ah, just scrolled back to your comment. You have hit the nail on the head. Purchases must follow the individual.... so exactly the point! That is exactly the problem. I so want to rid myself of that original ID and email address, but I'm chained to years of purchases. Help!