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Q: Dears I have changed my Apple ID, changed Email, Password. Now I can not update my existing Apps which were downloaded the old Apple ID.

I need help in updating my current apps

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Feb 21, 2014 10:01 AM

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  • by seventy one,

    seventy one seventy one Feb 21, 2014 10:37 AM in response to Salemuae
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    Feb 21, 2014 10:37 AM in response to Salemuae

    If you have changed your Apple ID you cannot update any existing apps prior to that change.   An app, once purchased with an ID, is forever tied to that ID.   You can only update using the original ID.

     

    Nor, incidentally, can you merge accounts together.