I Have just created a new app store account and when I want to update something it asks for the password for my old account, how do I change the account it was downloaded on?
iPad 2
Aall downloaded apps, songs, or movies are always associated to the ID that they were downloaded with. Best course of action is if they were free, to just delete them and download with the updated ID. Otherwise you will have to sign in and out of the store every time you want to update them.
Downloads are forever tied to the AppleID used to download the items.
The only 2 ways to avoid being asked for the old password are:
1] use the old account - which you do not want to do; and
2] delete anything downloaded with the old AppleID and redownload with
the new AppleID. Be advised that any item that had to be purchased
originally will have to be re-purchased under the new AppleID.
You cannot merge items from multiple AppleIDs nor can you transfer
items from one AppleID to another.
tl;dr - you cannot change the account it was downloaded on.
I Have the same problem, and these answers are not making me happy.
with the Billions $$$ Apple company is making its hard to believe they cannot support their cust better than this!
I understand your feelings Lakhome. But think of it this way. Each ID is a unique and individual customer, just as you may have a visa and a Amex credit cards in your wallet. If you buy lunch with your visa, you aren't able to login to the Amex site and pay the balance.
Samething, my case is slightly different, Mi wife and I bought one macbook pro for her, then she registered her apple ID to the laptop, then few months later she wanted a MacBook Air, and we bought that laptop, I inherited the Macbook pro, and every time that there is updates for the software that came with the laptop (iPhoto, iMovie, etc) I have to ask her for the password. it is easy for me to ask my wife but it is always a hassle to keep asking her to give me her password to do updates on the computer...
Agree with the comment above that with all the sales that apple is making, they cannot spend sometime to provide a solution to this issue simple/small issue.
I have created a new App Store account but still have the same device and can't update apps downloaded on my old account
