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Here is my situation.

For the longest time my family has had all their devices linked to one apple ID. This has gotten quite bothersome and i want to seperate my stuff from everyone elses.

I have my laptop with all my data on it and my Iphone will all the data on it too. Both are linked to the email I mentioned earlier.

My plan was to create a new apple ID on the same laptop, and then transfer all my data from my phone onto that ID. Will that work? Or should I put it all onto an external harddrive first?

Can I just simply plug in my iphone with the previous apple ID into my computer with a new Apple ID and have everything work out?

Thanks! 🙂

Posted on Dec 18, 2013 5:56 PM

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Posted on Dec 18, 2013 6:00 PM

jcurtis7 wrote:

My plan was to create a new apple ID on the same laptop, and then transfer all my data from my phone onto that ID.

Anything Downloaded with a Particular Apple ID is tied to that Apple ID and Cannot be Merged or Transferred to a Different Apple ID

Apple ID FAQs > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622

SHARING iTunes MUSIC

http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

Sharing Apps

http://macmost.com/sharing-ios-apps-with-family.html

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Dec 18, 2013 6:00 PM in response to jcurtis7

jcurtis7 wrote:

My plan was to create a new apple ID on the same laptop, and then transfer all my data from my phone onto that ID.

Anything Downloaded with a Particular Apple ID is tied to that Apple ID and Cannot be Merged or Transferred to a Different Apple ID

Apple ID FAQs > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622

SHARING iTunes MUSIC

http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

Sharing Apps

http://macmost.com/sharing-ios-apps-with-family.html

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Dec 18, 2013 6:19 PM in response to AnaMusic

But tell me this, why wouldn't this work?

If I put all my music from my Laptop onto a hardrive, I could just copy it into a new ID.

Just some copy and paste.

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Dec 18, 2013 6:23 PM in response to jcurtis7

Not for anything Downloaded or Purchased using iTunes.

jcurtis7 wrote:

If I put all my music ...

You do not state where this Music originated from.

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