Q: why is my iphone showing the wrong apple id

Sure, but what if you have apps purchased from multiple IDs, as many people do?  Would you not want be able to access them, as would happen with your suggestion that your only see apps purchased with the currently signed in ID.

I'd expect that I'd have to log out of the current apple ID and log into a new one to see the apps associated with that one.  OR put a filter in the UI that let's me work with apps associated with an ID of my choosing.  NOT the current implementation which simply fails to show/update any apps of another appleID at all.

I mean, really?   I have to delete the apps of the other ID, and re-download the ones for the ID I want?  epic fail on the programmer's part.

Subotai_OG wrote:

 

I'd expect that I'd have to log out of the current apple ID and log into a new one to see the apps associated with that one.

And that's easier than just choosing the apps that you want from a merged app list? 

But if you want to give Apple your feedback go here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html.  It won't do any good stating your concerns in these support forums.

A very loud and resounding YES.  Are you kidding me?  She has identical apps to me, I'm expected to go thru all of them and right click and see which appleID is tied to it so I know which ones to update?  one by one, all 100 of them?  Remember, iTunes fails out with a message saying cannot update any of these apps because they are for another appleID, not just hers.  yeah, it's feeling very ameteur-ish hour up in here.  and that's only multiplied across n-many phones/devices for the household?  why don't you just admit, it's a horrible bug that could easily...I mean EASILY...be fixed by anyone who knows how to program 'echo hello world!'   ?!?!?

Subotai_OG wrote:

 

why don't you just admit, it's a horrible bug that could easily...I mean EASILY...be fixed by anyone who knows how to program 'echo hello world!'   ?!?!?

Because I don't agree, and have never heard anyone else complain about it.  If you're convinced it so bad, and so easy to fix, tell Apple.

bro, thanks for the link, I am filing a complaint.  and how do you mean "...never heard anyone else complain about it...."??  isn't that what this whole thread is?  people complaining about the affects of this horrible software bug?  uh, yes, it is.

You're welcome.  This tread is about people seeing a different ID appear when they update apps, and that happens because apps are permanently tied to the ID used to purchase them and require entering the password for these other IDs when they are updated, regardless of what ID the device happens to be signed into at the time.

But I need to run.  I'm trying to answer a bunch of other iOS 8 related questions right now.  Good luck.

you keep repeating the part that apps are tied to appleIDs not devices.  This part is NOT argued, why do you keep bringing it up?  Nobody disagrees with you in that.  You make it sound like that is the cause of the bug.  I simply want iTunes to NOT FAIL to update apps associated to the appleID currently in use of the device currently active in iTunes, simply because it finds apps of OTHER appleIDs in the history somewhere.

I just deleted all my apps and re-installed them. Did you find a fix?

Subotai_OG wrote:

 

I'm a programmer.  It seems programmers have a bug here because why, when my phone is plugged into my PC and the launched instance of iTunes running on the PC clearly shows my apple ID as the one logged in, and my phone as the one being synced, etc..does it show apps assigned to other apple IDs?  For instance, this is a shared PC so the other phone that gets plugged in and used with iTunes is the wife's.  But when I'm plugged in, it's showing all her apps, and not mine, even though it clearly shows it's working with "Husbnd's iPhone"?

Hey programmers, fix your bug.  How hard is it to show/update ONLY the apps associated with the AppleID corresponding to the current device plugged in?  Ameteur hour

I'm having the same problem.  I was signed into my iTunes with the same AppleID that's on my phone on my last sync but when I try to use an app, it asks me to login with a different Apple ID that's part of the Family Sharing group.

I can't tell you how much it will suck to have to open up each app individually to find out which ones are screwed up. Plus take the time to re-download them.  What's to say this situation won't happen again once I go through and replace all the messed up apps?  I never did anything specific to make the problem happen in the first place. 

I agree with the other folks who say this problem makes Apple look bad.  Especially since some support folks would rather make excuses or blame the end user instead of helping to resolve.

This is an unbelievable dropped ball by Apple.  My wife and I both use the same laptop for our iphones.  We log out of our respective apple ID's when we back up and update our phones.  Somehow logging into my own apple ID does not prevent my wife's apps from downloading to my phone.  To clarify, it does not download apps that were not already present on my phone, but rather any app that we both had downloaded is pushed to my phone under my wife's ID.  Some 20 Apps.  Unbelievable that Apple has not provided the isolation of apps despite allowing you to switch Apple ID's.  If there's a fix for this I'd love to hear it, because deleting and redownloading several dozen apps is a tremendous waste of my time. 

Hi everyone!  I had the same exact issue with my iphone showing my iTunes ID under Settings but App Store kept asking for my husband's ID when trying to update apps.  However, apps tied to my ID were actually updating even though I was repeatedly shown his ID and asked for his password.

I did discover that there were a couple of apps tied to his user ID that caused this to happen.  However, there were also two free apps tied to my ID that wouldn't update until I gave his pw, even though he's never downloaded or used these two particular apps.  Can't figure out a reason why two of my apps were still dependent upon his info.

Bottom line: ” arrogance is best defined as an APPLE ”

end of discussion; because with Apple, as eventually we all come to realize, there never really is any discussion.

Mark in Brooklyn

Ok, so I have updated my iPhone to the latest version, backed it up to iTunes, restored it to original version, and after restoring to an iCloud backup, this lordrene@live.com appears on my phone. Ok, weird, because the entire time of my phones use, it was in my hands, and noone ever logged in it. But I think, it's cool, I don't need the purchases, I am after the pictures, and whatever, so I press "Skip". Then another e-mail pops up. Skip. Then another. Then another. What the actual ****, this is kind of creepy. I have myself unpacked my phone, it was brand new and always in my hands, yet it shows e-mails of people who seem to be from all around the world and NONE of them is mine, while I am clearly connected to my laptop, and the iCloud is logged in to my account.

Has anyone found the solution? This is preposterous.