How do I change the apple id to update apps from Appstore on mac

I also work in IT, and have the same problem. We're wanting to repurpose a Mac Mini that was used in a library as a normal user machine. But it is still "sticky" to the old ID. Dahveed, you can spin it however you want and say that it's correct, when what you mean is it's accurate. Bottom line, as many have said, this is an asinine model. It is one of the plethora and plenty of reasons why Apple products do not enjoy much success in corporate and enterprise environments. If you worked for me with that attitude--wait, you wouldn't work for me with that attitude... 🙂

It's crazy having to add a credit card, change the personal information, make a purchase, then change it all back on an iPad just to add an app for a customer in a corporate setting. Yes, I understand that we could hire an Apple certified specialist, provide him a Mac server to control the individual Mac workstations deployed to each campus in order to manage Apple Configurator and the rather complicated enterprise licensing model it supports. Or, I could just buy another company's products, as you say. Guess what? That's what we do. That's why we're trying to repurpose the Mac Mini, because it turned out to be a waste of money as a dedicated Apple Configurator machine. Yawn...

Apple needs to listen to people like us, instead of having people like you try to tell us that we're wrong and just aren't looking at this correctly. It's the other way around, Apple isn't looking at it correctly. But if it's one thing Macheads have instilled in them is that Jobs attitude that Macheads are NEVER wrong, by definition. There's the Apple way, and the wrong way. Fine, be satisfied with skirting the fringe of the corporate and higher education market. Make it hard for us to deploy your products, and make it sticky for us to explain why deploying Apple products and their convoluted and proprietary licensing and maintenance model is all but unsustainable in an enterprise setting.

Sad. That doesn't mean I'm down on Apple products. I just remain intensely aware of their limitations in business and IT. They are fine computing devices for individuals, period. They clearly aspire to be nothing else, or at least aren't allowed to be by the "powers" that be.

Based on your job vs my job and your salary vs mine, you would more likely work for me, except, OH, wait, I wouldn't hire a short sighted peckerwood like you to even get my morning coffee. You see, I work placing millions of pesos worth of Mac systems in corporations that function perfectly, because my clients aren't constantly trying to buck the system, which works fine.

Not sure what you mean by:

hellums wrote:

It's crazy having to add a credit card, change the personal information, make a purchase, then change it all back on an iPad just to add an app for a customer in a corporate setting. Yes, I understand that we could hire an Apple certified specialist, provide him a Mac server to control the individual Mac workstations deployed to each campus in order to manage Apple Configurator and the rather complicated enterprise licensing model it supports. Or, I could just buy another company's products, as you say. Guess what? That's what we do. That's why we're trying to repurpose the Mac Mini, because it turned out to be a waste of money as a dedicated Apple Configurator machine. Yawn...

What is the issue with adding an App on the iPad? Why would you have to change the personal information? Why would you have to add a credit card? What is it that you are describing that you are attempting to do? Add an App for a customer in a corporate setting? Sorry - don't have a clue what you mean by that.

Also not sure what you are indicating when you say that Apple is "skirting" the Higher Education arena. The corporate world may not use Macs, but the Education world is pretty much what made Macs.

GB

As expected, and in your original answers and diatribes, hardly worth any reply at all.

That being said, the difference is I have a real position, real salary, and am not a legend in my own mind that spends all his time posting on Apple sites. If you were a real CEO of a real company, you wouldn't talk the way you do, or act the way you do. You sure as well wouldn't have time to become a self-made Apple guru on the Interwebs. Most likely you work at a "genius" bar somewhere, and actually drank the Koolaid they fed you to keep you from crying, hoping you don't wet yourself...

Well see, it's like this. As a department head, I have a credit card. Since I can't use an iTunes gift card to pay for an app someone with an iPad needs, they have to pay for it somehow. I don't use PayPal, so that leaves a credit card. And the credit card information has to match the user information generally. So to buy them a $5 app, I have to change the default/generic user information to my information, associate it with a credit card, make the purchase, then back everything back out. I don't want my name and credit card-related information left in a user's machine. That's why the purchasing/installation model *****, and why everyone on this thread tries to get that through a few devout Machead heads. By the way, I have a MacBook, Mac Mini, two iPads, and an iPhone. But that doesn't mean I am a Koolaid-drinking zealot and definitely not an apologist. The amount of infrastructure and support resources needed to manage even the smallest amount of enterprise licensing and administration of iPads in a mid-market enterprise is simply not worth the effort or cost, especially given the attitude these type of "support" people provide.

especially given the attitude these type of "support" people provide.

There aren't any support people here. The Apple Support Communities is a user to user support forum, provided by Apple. Apple isn't here. Apple doesn't answer questions here.

Why don't you just "gift" the app to them? All you need to know is their email address....

GB

Excellent solution. Gold star for you Gail!!

😀 Thanks BKoT!!!

GB

so let me understand, after yosemite, iphoto have an update, with a apple id that I dont have the password, dont know the secret answers, and the password retriever email, no longer exists because it was a random generated gmail mail.

I cant even use the unupdated iphoto? I mean, I have over 6000 pictures over there.

Need help.

If you can't remember the Security Questions, contact Apple Support to have them reset:

ACCOUNT SECURITY CONTACT NUMBERS

Cheers,

GB

If the software in question is something your Apple ID has also already "purchased" (including for free), it seems you can re-associate the already installed app with your Apple ID without senselessly deleting and re-downloading by doing the following:

1. If necessary, log the previous Apple ID out of App Store. Store menu > View my account ([whomever previous user]). Then click the Sign Out button in the resulting prompt for that Apple ID's password. (If the Store menu contains no "View my account" item, but instead a "Sign in", go to the next step.)
2. Click Purchases at the top.
3. Log in with your Apple ID.
4. Click 'upgrade' next to the installed app you want to upgrade using your own license.

From that point forward, I'm guessing that app will be associated with your Apple ID, the one most recently used to install an update to it. (I won't be able to test that until they release another update, however. 😝) Also, obviously this procedure might only work if an update is available, but I'm guessing that's the case for most people who've found their way here. 🙂)

And David (Dah-veed), drop the attitude. Hate to break it to you, but your sh*t does stink.

That may work for free apps (don't know), but it won't work for paid apps. If a paid app was purchased by another Apple ID and you now want it associated with your current Apple ID, you have to buy it under that Apple ID.

Cheers,

GB

Terry_N wrote:

If the software in question is something your Apple ID has also already "purchased" (including for free), it seems you can re-associate the already installed app with your Apple ID without senselessly deleting and re-downloading by doing the following:

1. If necessary, log the previous Apple ID out of App Store. Store menu > View my account ([whomever previous user]). Then click the Sign Out button in the resulting prompt for that Apple ID's password. (If the Store menu contains no "View my account" item, but instead a "Sign in", go to the next step.)
2. Click Purchases at the top.
3. Log in with your Apple ID.
4. Click 'upgrade' next to the installed app you want to upgrade using your own license.

From that point forward, I'm guessing that app will be associated with your Apple ID, the one most recently used to install an update to it. (I won't be able to test that until they release another update, however. 😝) Also, obviously this procedure might only work if an update is available, but I'm guessing that's the case for most people who've found their way here. 🙂)

And David (Dah-veed), drop the attitude. Hate to break it to you, but your sh*t does stink.

Nope. Apps are forever tied to the Apple Id that bought / downloaded them

That can never be changed no matter what you do. Whether Free or Paid it does not matter, they work the same way.

They are licensed to an Apple Id and only that Apple Id can be used to update them.

Cardinal rule of ASC, test the advice that you give BEFORE posting. Then you don't look like the giant cow pie that you are.

Phil0124 has pointed out the big fly buzzing your pie. Only the apps bought with an Apple ID will appear in the Purchases pane when signed into the MAS with that Apple ID, no others. You cannot change content licensing from one Apple ID to another. The Apple ID is encoded into the licensed copy, it's in its DNA.