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

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.

I'd just like to confirm that ChewbaccaFreak's advice works a treat. After much faffing around this issue I deleted the offending apps that had hitherto called for a username and password that I no longer employed before updating. Simple but effective.

You realize that you aren't really "updating" apps with this process? You are deleting the licensed copy bought with the old Apple ID and buying the most recent version available with the new Apple ID, the same as someone who never had this app before.

As has been said several times in this thread. Yes deleting the Apps and buying/downloading them again with the new Apple Id, licenses these Apps to the new Apple ID.

However, this is not a workaround, its simply the way it works. you are not doing anything to the old Apps, they are still assigned to the old account.

You are simply obtaining new copies of said apps that are now licensed to the new Apple ID.

Exactly, and if it's a paid app, it will have to be purchased again by the new Apple ID. Which can be an expensive proposition if you bought a lot of paid apps with the former/previous/abandoned Apple ID.

Yup

Something is definitely wrong. In my specific case there are two apps that I installed using my apple id (and I'm sure of it) which have updates available in the app store. However, when I attempt to update them, I'm prompted for my wife's apple id. Her id was not the one that originally installed them so I'm not sure how this is possible.

Who originally "installed" them, and who purchased them can be two different things. I have apps on my iPhone 5s that were purchased with an Apple ID that I haven't used in over 5 years. When I set up the phone from a backup of my iPhone 4, they were copied onto my device (as they should have been). So, I installed them with my current Apple ID signed onto the device. However, I originally purchased them with my old Apple ID, so they still require the password to that ID to update.

There is simply no way an App can get tied to an Apple ID that was not the one that did the purchasing (or original download).

You will have to delete them and re-purchase (or re-download if free) to get your Apple ID tied to them.

Cheers,

GB

This procedure doesn't work for me. Although my apple id (and I'm sure of it) was used to purchase and download the apps in question, updating them still prompts me for my wife's apple id. Even after trying the procedure you described. Something seems wrong with the software.

You deleted them from your Mac? And then went to the App Store and re-purchased them?

GB

I just called Apple and was able to fix this issue!!!! So I wanted to share....

The app I was trying to upgrade was iPhoto. All I did was delete iPhoto and reinstall it from the App store. When I went to reinstall it, it asked me for my Apple ID and that was that. I didn't back up my photos prior to the uninstall because I had them all on another computer. Magically, they were just in iPhoto when I opened up the freshly downloaded version. I guess Apple kept them on my computer. If I were to do it again I would have backed them up just in case though. I hope this helps someone out there. 🙂

There is no magic involved, the photos are not contained in the iPhoto app. All of the photos are stored in the iPhoto library.

Mac HD/~/Pictures/iPhoto library

I had the same problem with App Store on my iMac. Here's what helped me:

Start the App Store on your Mac and klick on the star-icon (top left in App store window) then klick on "account" (you find it to the right in App store view) and then type in the new Apple ID and password that you want to use to update and download apps...

Hope this helps you.