how do i find out which apple id was used to purchase apps

How can you find out the apps that were purchased using an old Apple ID? I keep getting a pop up asking to enter the password for an old Apple ID I no longer use. Think it must be because of an app I purchased using that is a long time ago. I want to delete the apps that were purchased using old ID and purchase again using my current Apple ID

Posted on Mar 11, 2017 9:36 PM

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Nov 15, 2017 11:34 AM in response to Shanzi76

I'm having the same problem. Now however, Itunes 12.7 doesn't backup or sync apps so I can't look at my apps in itunes to see which apple ID they were purchased under. Any suggested work around for this? Also - I need to do the same with my songs but when I right click songs, there is no option for "file". I did find Song Info/file - but no Apple ID information can be found there either. Do you know how I can find it for songs as well?

Mar 29, 2017 12:18 AM in response to garaj

This was exactly the problem. Turns out it was one old app that I purchased years ago using my old Apple ID. Once I figured out which one it was I deleted it and problem solved. After I restored backup from the cloud I saw there was one app that was still waiting to install. That was the app that was causing the problems so deleted it. Thanks for your help :)

Mar 24, 2017 10:31 AM in response to Shanzi76

I just did as the others on this thread have suggested and cleaned out all the apps that were purchased/downloaded under my old Apple ID. This issue is something I think Apple could have figured out by now. When I first created an Apple ID it didn't need to be an email address, so I used something else. When they made the switch and required that the Apple ID be an email address, I think they should have made it possible to merge content associated with the old ID together under your new ID. I have apps and music from my old ID and it causes problems for me years after the change.

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