My daughter's phone is set up as a family member under my iTunes account. Her phone isn't synced with any other iTunes environment.
When I sync her phone, I get the following error message.
Five Apple IDs ?????
iPhone 5c, iOS 8.1.3
Your iTunes library contains items associated with six or more Apple IDs.
(123486)
Niel,
That's what is confusing about the message.
My Apple ID hasn't changed since the first time I started using iTunes (years since).
Al
Select an item and then choose Get Info from the File menu to find the Apple ID stored inside it. If you find that there's content from more than five in the library, not all of the library can be synced to the iPhone.
(123488)
Thank you, I'll go through all of the apps and see what I find.
All apps, with the exception of 4 or so, where purchased by my Apple ID (as expected). The 4 others were my daughter's Apple ID via the family purchase request process in iTunes.
So, there are 2 Apple IDs, not 6. What else can I check?
Worked with Apple support on this. There were no foreign Apple ID's on the device, so the total was confirmed as 2.
Early indications are the iOS 8.2 update corrected this bug.
Hi, have you solved that issue? I have a similar one, Shared family content - can't install from iTunes. and I have used only one apple id, for my iPhone. Then I added my wife new iPhone to family sharing, she never purchased anything, her iTunes account is blank, and I synced a couple of apps from MY library, which worked perfectly. The day after iTunes was not able to sync apps anymore giving me that error message. I am able to download those already purchased apps from my wife's phone though.
No, I've seen the error since, it wasn't fixed.
I updated the iPhone settings to download app updates over wi-fi, so I don't have the same need to physically sync to iTunes. Basically just a workaround.
So you tell me that you update apps by syncing over wifi with your iTunes or you just download them directly from AppStore?
Downloading directly is the accurate way to state it.
All of our devices (5) download the updates as they become available from the iTunes store, while my local / central iTunes database (running on Windows) doesn't download anything unless I run it and process all outstanding updates.
I've also purchased new apps (over Wi-Fi) from the iTunes store using the device I want it loaded to (first). The other devices can download it from the app store since all purchases are tracked.
I've also started downloading iOS updates over Wi-Fi, since it appears I had some cable and / or security software issues when updating while connected to iTunes (or maybe it was just iTunes itself?). I also turned on Wi-Fi sync (neither of these two points are related to the "five Apple ID issue").
Overall, minimized the need for a local iTunes instance as much as possible.
I understand your technique. Unfortunately I don't have a unlimited wi-fi in my house and The only way to do so is by using our own phone connections with 3GB monthly limit. That means that the same app is going to be downloaded twice.
Error Msg: ..."five Apple IDs"
