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How to unregister Macbook from one apple-id and register to an other

I have an iphone and an ipad with my own apple-id. My son bought me a macbook but installed and registered it with his own apple-id, instead of with mine.


I want to unregister the macbook from my son's apple-id and registers it with my apple-id, so I can synchronize with icloud all my devices.


I did some investigation.


Till now evenhow I see two ways and I am not sure which one to choose.


1. On the Macbook I can go to supportprofile.apple.com. This is the My Support Profile of my son. I can remove the Macbook here. Now I can do the same on my ipad with my apple-id and add and register the Macbook as a new product.


2. On the Macbook I can go to Itunes>Store>Show account and remove the Macbook here. Now remove the authorization of my son in Itunes>Store>Remove authorization and then add the authorization of my apple-id.


The second way seems me a little more complete but I am not sure. I found the information here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4627?viewlocale=nl_NL&locale=nl_NL and here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420?viewlocale=nl_NL


I am also not sure if I am complete with all the steps.


I hope anybody can inform and help me with this problem and maybe mention risks.



I have a dutch Macbook with Lion, so maybe the terms are not totaly equivalent to the English terms in the menu's.

iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3

Posted on Dec 15, 2013 2:38 AM

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Dec 15, 2013 2:41 AM in response to hansfromzoetermeer

You have to do both things: remove the MacBook Air from his Apple ID in http://supportprofile.apple.com and add it to your Apple ID, and deauthorize the Mac from the iTunes Store. This should be enough.


After authorizing your Mac with your Apple ID, open the Mac App Store, go to Purchases and accept all the listed apps, which should be iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. If the Mac was purchased after October 1st, you can also accept Keynote, Pages and Numbers

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