Q: Transfer purchases to another ID

So now my Son has his own iPad, and I want to transfer all his games and rubbish clogging up my iPad to his account/iPad.  Thats reasonable.. I bought them.. I paid for them.. I don't play them - he does.. But Apple does not allow this.  Frankly.. I find that ridiculous.  Its not stealing - its fair use.

Interesting.  I moved from my iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy S3 a few months back and I find it a WAY better phone.  I looked at the Samsung Tablet too, but .. for now.. I think the iPad is still better (though not by much).  I think Apple needs to pull their finger out to catch up with the competition again.  Giving us upgrades where the phone is a bit taller.. or now maps don't work, or the screen is now just as nice as the competition etc is not innovating and will not help them in the long run.

Wayne, I agree. The Galaxy III wipes the floor with the iPhone. Swype text, panorama photos, Navigon..just a few to mention.

I use Windows, Linux and Apple at work and the we have no end of trouble with dealing with the output of 'video data' from the Apple devices. They never learnt to "play well" in the 'media sandpit". It's the problematic child!

Now, onto not being able to transfer purchased items from one user to another.....Hmmm, my daughter received iTunes vouchers for her birthday, so I set her up with her own user account by registering one card with a new userID. Now games and music she purchased on my account on my iPod (and what's more important in her young eyes, the points and game progress) can't be transfered. I don't want her games or her dozen odd songs she has paid for on my device anymore, she's now got my wifes old iPhone and wants all her "stuff" on her new user ID.

THANKS APPLE for causing a nightmare for honest people....grow up and learn to play in the sandpit!!!!

P.S. in the meantime, before she blows anymore money on iTunes, she's happily listening to Spotify and downloading Android apps on her laptop.

I tend to agree at the moment. Our boys, who are 8 and 6, received ipod touches for Christmas this year. While my husband and I have purchased hundreds of apps over the past several years for our boys on our iphones, I cant transfer the apps to their new ipods unless they are linked to our Apple ID which is fine because our boys are minors. The problem arises when they try to use features like messaging and facetime, email, etc. They can only interact with us unless we download and/or purchase text or phone apps. I would love to set them up each their own Apple ID and transfer their games to them and be done with them on my account and move forward, but unfortunately I can't and I REFUSE to repurchase all of these games twice!!!!

They can only interact with us unless we download and/or purchase text or phone apps.

You are misinformed. You can create Apple IDs for the boys and configure the new iPods with these as the primary ID and you can continue to manage the new IDs for them until they are older. You can even set up a monthly allowance that funds the accounts so they may manage their own purchases. They will be able to use both FaceTime and iMessages with these accounts. At the same time, you can also authorize the iOS devices to use the content that you have previously purchased for them from your account. I can't believe that when they become teens and adults that they are still going to be interested in the childish content that you have bought for them when they are 6 and 8!

Thank you so much for this information!!!!! Can you please tell me how to do this? All of the research I have done over the past two days suggested that I just sync them with my user ID until they were of an age to have their own. I would love for them to have their own Apple IDs that I manage until they are older.

Thanks in advance,

Stephanie-Anne

If you have already set up their new iPods you need to start over by setting them up again as new devices. Go to Settings/General/Reset and choose Erase All Content and Settings.

Then follow these Apple instructions to create an iCloud account on the iPod which will give each child a unique Apple ID and iCloud email account. (You might want to think about this as this will be their Apple ID for perpetuity and as a teen or adult they may not want a cutsie Apple ID from childhood!) With this Apple ID they will be able to use FaceTime and iMessages from their iPod.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ios.html

After you have set up their iCloud/Apple IDs you can follow these instructions from iTunes to fund their accounts with a monthly allowance;

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2105

Well Dahveed, I am glad that Stephanie-Anne appreciates your information to help solve her issue but I don't care for your reply of...

I can't believe that when they become teens and adults that they are still going to be interested in the childish content that you have bought for them when they are 6 and 8!

Kids these days are not just playing with CareBears and Tonka Trucks.

Who are you to be judging if the content is  A) childish  B) whether they will still be interested in it or not.

They paid for this content and when or why they use the content is up to them.

I think that this is a poor way to side-step the issue of content ownership in what everyone knows is a rubish policy. I would have expected something more from someone of your level.

I agree that the policy is there and what it says you can and can't do. Some have learnt to accept this fact and work within the bounds of the policy. Others (naturally) will turn to Jail-Breaking and pirating content - which in my opinion is not the solution either.

I can appreciate that there is some pretty big challenges to be overcome with regards to transferring content or merging ID's. I am sure the folks at Apple - if they put some thought to the problem - can figure out these issues.

What people should not do is purchase content multiple times in what will likely only continually delay a resolution from Apple whilst increasing profit margins at the same time... why fix something that is making more money?

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They paid for this content and when or why they use the content is up to them.

No.  When or why they use the content is up to the parents.

You are cetainly welcome to your opinion.

Childish is not always used in a negative context, but English is also not my first language.

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The comment "they paid for this content", I was actually referring to the Parents.

It's the parent who is trying to do something with the content, not the child.

Interestingly your grasp of the English language does allow you to explain the nuances and detail of Apple Policy to everyone in this forum.

You could probably benefit from a lesson in taste though.

Also, I might be able to believe your remark about the reference to the word childish "not always" being negative... except that you used the words "not always" - which sounds to me that you knew exactly what you are saying.

The primary definition of childish is something relating to children and childhood.

Go soak your head jerk.

As the parent of someone who has purchased "additional game play" in a App/game, I can understand how she would like to continue the game WITHOUT (A) Needing to purchase the game AGAIN and (B) not forfeiting her "position/score" in the game, just because some idiotic notion by a corporate mega-giant about piracy my be rife in households. How's about Apple looks at the addresses of the users and determines that these are house-hold members. So what if occasionaly a few cents might go missing on the odd itunes purchase. maybe Apple shouldn't charge such a rediculous "mark up" on their very ordinary products.

I called my local Apple shop today and stated my case regarding my 12 year olds postion and I was told there was "no way" to do a transfer between user ID's. The best I could hope for is that she can purchase material on the "hand-me-down" iPhone using her ID and password. Which means I will end up with every Justin Bieber and One Direction piece of crap in my iTunes account as it's still linked to mine.

Thank you Samsung, Windows and Android, with you I don't have any problem like the "Apple headache".

Apple needs to understand it doesn't "rule the sandpit" anymore!    

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DRM, which is completely illogical and outdated. Not even outdated. It could arguably be considered collusion when you think about the legality and forcing someone to stay within an technological ecosystem to do "legal" use of purchases. DRM at this point in time is equivalent to purchasing a car and not being able to transfer ownership to your kids. Ever. They could always drive the car under your name, with you as the owner. Not only are you prohibited from transferring ownership to your kids (at no cost to them) you also can't sell it to someone else. So David, are you find with driving the same car until it dies? Or living in the same house until you die? Can't ever sell your house, or your cad, or anything you ever buy. You are stuck with it forever. What happens if you die? No one can inherit it because you can't transfer ownership. If you ask me, DRM is collusion between the consumer entertainment industry and large technology corporations. As people purchase items, they become more and more stuck with a company, hence reducing competition. The cost of switching to a competitor becomes so great, that no one will ever make the switch. Imagine, you decide samsung no longer has he best tv, but that Panasonic does, you can't sell your tv and buy a panasonic, you have to buy an additional tv. Meanwhile the media entertainment companies get to enjoy multiple purchases of their content if you decide to jump ship to another company and repurchase all your apps, or even better yet, your kids grow up and want their own account and have to buy their own apps again. This is truly a phenomenon we don't see anywhere else. Even if you lease a car you can sell the lease and lease a different one.

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