Help with multiple itunes accounts and NOT sharing

I have 3 apple ID's. One is for my work iphone, one is for my personal iphone, and I have one for my son's ipod Nano 6th generation.
I only have one desktop computer and it is a PC.
How can I keep my child's music for his ipod off my iphones?
I read the help tool about using different itunes libraries, but will that keep my devices separated when I sync?

No, sorry. You cannot merge AppleIDs nor can you transfer purchases. No way around that at this time.

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Help with multiple itunes accounts

Hello, I have multiple purchases from multiple apple id's on my devices. These were all legitimately my purchases; however, depending on the company I was working for, etc. I couldn't have my personal itunes on the company computers. I used older programs, etc. to pull the songs off of my phone and into new apple id accounts, etc. Bottom line, many apple purchases under several apple ids but all made by me through accounts set up by me. However, I am thoroughly confused and do not know the names of these older accounts at this time nor do I have the ability to access the email that I used to set-up the account if I could remember the email aaddress used. Please, is there anyway to join my different apple id purchases under my main apple id that I currently use?
Thank you!

No, sorry. You cannot merge AppleIDs nor can you transfer purchases. No way around that at this time.

HT201269 I'm not a tech person, but need help with my Itunes account in transferring money and downloads onto new phone I purchased 2 weeks ago when my Iphone was stolen. I don't know how to get the money or music on new phone?

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I'm not a tech person, but need help with my Itunes account in transferring money and downloads onto new phone
Is this an iPhone?
Set it up using the AppleID you used on the previous iPhone.

How can I share only the same music with multiple iTunes accounts

Hello
I hope someone can help. [I am using Windows Vista (Unfortunately J) and iTunes 10]
I am trying to share the same music library with multiple iTunes accounts. Basically, I want to know if there is a way to automatically upload to other libraries when importing new music into my library, vice versa. [Better information below]
Me, my sister and my dad all use iTunes (on different iTunes accounts), and before now we used to have are own music on our own windows user. Due to many duplicates and a loss of hard drive space I have brought an external hard drive and organised all the music.
It was all going well - I first populated all the music onto my iTunes, exported the library, and then imported it on both the other users. However! Because this is only a copy of the library, when I try to import a new CD, it will not show up on there’s until I “Add File to Library”! Originally I thought about using the same library however we each have are own apps etc, that we don’t want to share.
If you need anymore information please ask!
Matt

Hello roaminggnome
Unfortunately the support is down at the moment, I will have a better look later. I did go though the Apple support previously, however I found nothing that worked.
The first thread I came across was “Home Sharing” however no mater what I did, it did not appear in the iTunes sharing list (I did go though the “Show Sharing Networks” support as well)
Secondly, I saw “Using A Single Library With Multiple Accounts On The Same PC” (Something like that) but all this did was let us share the same music location, if I was to rip extra music, it will not show in there library
Matt

Hi I would like to get help with my iTunes account

Im having problems with my iTunes account and also. With my payment info

http://apple.com/support/itunes/contact/

My daughter just synched her new iphone with her itunes account and it wiped out her contacts and pictures. Is there any way to recover them?

My daughter just synched her new iphone with her itunes account and it wiped out her contacts and pictures. Is there any way to recover them?

Sorry, unless she backup up the new phone before or is using iCloud to save the photos, the photos are gone.

Home Sharing with multiple iTunes accounts

I have set up Home Sharing between our iMac and our AppleTV2 using my wife's Apple ID. The AppleTV sees my wife's iTunes library and plays music from it. However, my wife has songs in her library purchased under both her iTunes account and my iTunes account. Our computer is authorized for both accounts, and all the music plays fine on the computer. However, when AppleTV tries to play a song purchased under my account, it puts up a message that says "Authorization is required" to play that song. Is there any way to get AppleTV to play music purchased under both iTunes accounts? As it is, Home Sharing is useless because anytime it encounters a song purchased under my account, it stops playing music. I would even be happy if it would just skip songs it can't play, as long as it would continue on to the next song that could be played.

I've been trying to thing what might be different about my set up versus yours in case (which may be likely) you are correct and your wife's library is authorised and plays your content in her iTunes application.
I deliberately chose my wife's music to check my set up because she pays for her own iTunes account, whereas my children have their own accounts but I give them an allowance and send them gift vouchers from my account (which I thought might just be relevant). I later realised that my wife's library is also on our homesharing ID (which again might have been relevant), so I've now tried it with my youngests purchased and protected content because his library is using our homesharing ID.
I'll keep thinking.

Problems with multiple itunes accounts since ios8

Since iOS8 I am having real problems getting my content from multiple iTunes accounts to work. I used to be able to switch between accounts (US and Japanese stores) and download stuff, and play it all fine, but since iOS8 I get the message 'This device is already associated with an Apple ID'. So, I thought I'd transfer everything to iTunes and then sync it back to the phone, which seemed to transfer the content, but when I try and play a song belonging to the account I'm not logged in as it shows the play screen and then jumps back to the play list.
This is very frustrating for those of us who straddle countries and want to be able to access content from both!
Is there any workaround for this?
Thanks
Ray

Well, I usually think of an 'iTunes account' as being an account at the iTunes Store... I take it you have different iTunes collections with separate library files for each of you.
It sounds like you have different user accounts on the computer. Figuring out what is going on will require us knowing a lot more about how you have your iTunes libraries set up. Do you also have a shared area or do you keep totally separate accounts? Are you positive you were't really in his account when this was happening?

How to back up phone with apps purchased with multiple iTunes accounts

It's a long story, but my iPhone has apps that were purchased through multiple iTunes account.
Is it possible to create a backup of my phone that accounts for all of these apps? Last time I tried backup in iTunes, it only backed up the apps purchased with that particular iTunes account, but not others.
Should something happen to my iPhone and I need to restore/clone my phone, I want all my apps -- regardless of whose iTunes account was used to purchase them -- to be restored.
Any quick and easy way for this?

JoyfulLees wrote:
It's a long story, but my iPhone has apps that were purchased through multiple iTunes account.
Is it possible to create a backup of my phone that accounts for all of these apps? Last time I tried backup in iTunes, it only backed up the apps purchased with that particular iTunes account, but not others.
Should something happen to my iPhone and I need to restore/clone my phone, I want all my apps -- regardless of whose iTunes account was used to purchase them -- to be restored.
Any quick and easy way for this?
The backup does not include any apps. It only includes the list and arrangement of apps; which are then reloaded when you sync after restoring.

The mystery of multiple itunes accounts and countries

After about a year , i think i get it, but could someone just confrim this for me . I used some analogies, helps me thing about it .
Icloud account ( using apple id) is like a parent account that sychs your devices with mail,notes,contacts etc.
Generally speaking, you dont want to change this too often ( if ever) .
Itunes store account is like a child of Icloud, you can have many Itunes store apple IDs (children) . Although there is always a favourite child, the eldest child which shares its Apple ID with its parent, the Icloud .
All children ( apple IDs) have to be authorised to bring their toys(music ,apps) to your mac and on your phone and other stuff . They can bring their toys to 5 parties ( computers) .
For the eldest child, all his toys, they work well with the eco system, if he loses toys, the store just gives him new ones,they even have a history of toys that he bought . But were your parent to move countries, and chage the apple ID country address . You cant go back to that store so easily . You can buy duplicates from the local country store though, but not so easy to show them you already bought the toy before. your purchase history is gone . Even if you convince the new store that they owe you the toy, once you walk away, and lose that toy again, you have to prove it over again . ( purchase history will never update your overseas purchases)
Now when new versions of the toys come out, the eldest child can update his no problem . but the other kids, if their toys were bought in a different coutnry, and their ID's still associdated with that country, they have to go to that store to update their toys . Iphone does this automatically . But when it gets to the store, and you try to update. theres a problem . You see Icloud parent took the wrong child's passport .. What i am saying here is, Iphone takes you the foreign coutry store where you made your original purchase, but if you were logged into eldest son's account alredy, you wont be able to do anything until you log out and in with the store id for the foreign country . You arrive at the right country, but with the wrong passport .
Its often hard to know which passport to take before you are already boarded and on the flight .
Heres a start...gonna come back with more, but please....does this make sense ?\

Yes, just make sure that you log into one account and Authorize that computer for that account and then log into the 2nd account and authorize the computer for that account as well. I do this because my wife and I both have iTunes accounts and we share our purchases. Once you do this, you should be able to sync with anything from those 2 accounts without being logged in.

Problems with multiple iTunes accounts/computers

Hey everyone, I have a bit of a problem with iTunes. The whole setup is a bit convoluted, here's the layout. My brother and I both have iPhones. He uses my account to buy things, but has a separate library. Recently, my computer crashed, so I took his old one and he bought a new one. I now have his old computer, with his iTunes library, and he has a new one. I just want to sync my phone to the computer and be able to manage my iTunes through this computer, so I created a separate user on this computer. When I load iTunes under this user, the library is empty, save 3 songs that I believe automatically come with iTunes. When I connect my phone, it lets me back it up, but I can't do anything else. I can play music, but not edit or download. I have no clue what to do with all this, it would really just be easiest to uninstall iTunes I feel but I don't know if he would lose his music or anything. Thanks for any help!

JakeSheptin wrote:
Hey everyone, I have a bit of a problem with iTunes. The whole setup is a bit convoluted, here's the layout. My brother and I both have iPhones. He uses my account to buy things...
Jake,
I did not read past that point. Unless you have one account per person, you are going to have a mess.

Can multiple iphones with multiple itunes accounts be synced to one mac keeping apps seperate over the air?

We have about 20 iPhone's in our environment and syncing and updating them has become a real chore lately. Everyone has their own iTunes account and apps that they use. Is there a way that they can be synced, backed up and updated over the air (not iCloud) to the same MAC? Because we are in the financial sector we will not be able to use iCloud. Should we look into some sort of private cloud and if so; any suggestions on how to accomplish it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
J

We have several macs, several ipods, a couple of iphones, several itunes store accounts. So far no problem. You might have to share passwords if you want to share content. I think iStore accounts can only be used on up to 5 computers. We have 7, so have to be a little careful about that. I don't think there is a limit on how many iDevices can be used with one account. I also don't think there is a limit on how many accounts can be used on a single computer (might be wrong about that). You have to be logged into the iStore to download content, and your computer has to be registered with the account to use the content, but once it is on, and registered, syncing to an iPod is not a problem (you do not have to login in again for each account the content was purchased from). I'm just glad I only have two kids, and one wife - things could get trickier in a big family with . . .

Using one iPad with multiple iTunes accounts

I am trying to understand the iTunes implementation on iPad..After synching my MBP on an iPad, all of my settings music, photos,mail are transferred to the iPad...my wife now wants to use the iPad as we are traveling...can my iPad's iTunes be signed off and her iTunes account be logged on thus she can access all her data stored on her iTunes account? I have spent a lot of time investigating this on the forum and I do not understand what can and not can be done...If this can not be done, then if any iBooks we want read (different books for me/wife) then needs to be purchased and read on the one iPad needs to be bought on only MY account which is synched to my MBP... ? It seems that you need one iPad for each user...(we each have our own MBP)?

The iPad is not set up to allow different users with different data.
All users have the same data.
iTunes account = iTunes store account to make purchases
iTunes library = everything in iTunes when she logs in with her computer login
wife now wants to use the iPad as we are traveling...can my iPad's iTunes be signed off and her iTunes account be logged on thus she can access all her data stored on her iTunes account?
If you mean she want to sync the ipad with her iTunes library, yes.
She will need to login to her computer account, connect the iPad, launch iTunes then sync it.
This will erase all your data on the iPad and sync all her data.
If you mean can she access iTunes store account, launch iTunes on the iPad, scroll to the bottom and tap Sign out iTunes then sign back in with her iTunes account.
This will not add anything of hers to the iPad but she can make purchases with her iTunes account.

IPhone sync apps with multiple iTunes accounts

I have a US iTunes account and a UK iTunes account because I am temporarily living in the UK. I am having a problem in which data associated with certain apps on my iPhone are periodically being deleted. When I update apps, I am sometimes required to login to the US store and sometimes the UK store. I think this depends on which store they were downloaded from but I don't know how to tell. I frequently get messages when I try to update that say I need to log into a different iTunes store to do the update. I am guessing that if I were to update apps that were obtained from the UK store while logged in to the US store, it might replace the app with a different version and in the process wipe the associated data. Is that possible? Is there a better way to deal with the situation so this does not happen?

Not sure. There have been other posts about syncing from two computers. Maybe you can find a previous post about this with a forum search.

Problems with multiple itunes accounts on the same computer

Does anyone have issues with this? My husband and I have seperate iTunes accounts, and eventhough I am logged in under my username, his music is loading and mine is gone...
Also, his iPad apps are syncing to my iTunes account - this happened just last night when I plugged my iPod in and was rearranging my playlists and his apps were syncing at the same time.

Well, I usually think of an 'iTunes account' as being an account at the iTunes Store... I take it you have different iTunes collections with separate library files for each of you.
It sounds like you have different user accounts on the computer. Figuring out what is going on will require us knowing a lot more about how you have your iTunes libraries set up. Do you also have a shared area or do you keep totally separate accounts? Are you positive you were't really in his account when this was happening?

Help with multiple itunes accounts and NOT sharing

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