This Device Is Already Associated With an Apple ID

Have you downloadd content on your iPad in the past using more than one Apple ID?

this means that in the last 90 days you download past purchase from ANOTHER apple id other then the one you are using now. With itunes that have put this 90 dya block to stop everyone from sharing apple id purchases. You will have to wait 34 days intell you have redownload past purchases from another apple id

Then you might want to contact iTunes Store support about the issue. Typically a user will see this problem if they have used multiple Apple ID's in order to download previously purchased content form another ID.

See if support can help you out. You can email them here.

https://expresslane.apple.com/Issues.action

To everyone else who have this issue, chatting with Apple Support they will grant you a "one time exception". Apparently this feature is meant to prevent friends from logging into each others devices and downloading each others purchases, but as has been mentioned hits people who have separate iCloud and iTunes accounts (everyone who used iTunes and iTools/.Mac/MobileMe prior to iCloud?) when you set up your new device with an iCloud account and then switch your stores to your iTunes ID.

It's extremely frustrating and would have been solved a long time ago had we been able to merge our accounts.

I've just experienced 3 rather painful days with iTunes support not listening to what I was telling them.

I have a brand new iPad Air and a Brand new iPhone 5s - there is simply no way a different Apple ID was used on these devices.

Because the only other ID on the device was the iCloud ID, I suggested that maybe there was a bug where the iCloud login got used as the iTunes login before I could enter my actual iTunes credentials - hence the device thinking a previous iTunes ID was previously used on the device.

The rep suggested that if I needed further support on this issue, that I should have my legal advisor contact Apple's litigation department!

Seriously, I was just trying to help figure out a potential bug as I know there was no other Apple ID on the device.

While that suggestion from that rep was the worst, many of the replies I received were characterised by reps (I tried two) ignoring what I was telling them and replying with links to terms and conditions or references to the legality of the situation.

Dealing with the iTunes support team is like dealing with a completely different company - what complete bummer!

This has everything to do with Apple's idiotic approach to IDs. I had an Apple "me" ID (what was I thinking), and then Apple killed me.com. Fortunately, I had already started using an ID less susceptible to Apple bait and switch tactics. BUT Apple has still never provided any means of migrating me.com accounts over to new IDs.

When I contacted Apple support regarding this, they emphasized, repeatedly, that there is no way to synchronize or unify the separate accounts.

Couple that with the fact that (1) books purchased via Apple are always more expensive than Amazon or others, and (2) that Apple's book features have gone nowhere (no improvements at all in the past 2 years), and there is really no reason whatsoever to buy books via Apple. Nor is there any reason to buy music or movies, both of which (again) are now more expensive than competitors.

Figure it out, Apple.

Not sure what you are on about. All older IDs are both still valid and migrated to the newer system. I've been around since it was called iTools and my ID @mac.com, @me.com AND @icloud.com are all still valid.

You didn't read the original question. The problem is that on iPads if you sign into your old account and download content, you can not sign into another acount and download content withing 90 days. So if you want to watch content from an old account you will have to wait 3 months before you can then watch content from the new account on the same iPad. Very frustrating.

I Have two Apple IDs, one for the UK store and one for the Swiss store. Recently there was an App I needed which was on one store but not the other, so I switched IDs, bought the App and switched back again. Now I am locked out of my music for 90 days!

There may have been some warnings when I did this, but I didn't read them (who does?).

I am perfectly happy if they only allow me the music associated with the Apple ID to which I am logged in, but not music belonging to another account. That would be fairish, even though I own both accounts. It's not fair to stop me having music or services like iTunes Match that I paid for, and for which I am correctly logged in, just because I changed ID On a temporary basis.

Why should a device be linked to an ID for which I am not logged into? Surely the device should be linked to the ID of which I am currently logged in.

Does anyone know if a factory reset of the device will solve the problem?

Your situation is identical to mine, (although my second account was with the American store)

Tried a factory reset and still no joy. 85 days to go.

It let me purchase a film and began to stream it, but when I tried to re-download it, the same error message appeared.

devastated

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