Can one computer have 2 apple IDs?

My question is simple. My family all uses one Apple ID based on my husbands email address for all our purchases and it works fine in our family. Over the years as we updated computers however, about one third of our songs became deauthorized on the computer, and no longer play. When I check these songs in itunes it asks me to authorize them using an Apple ID based on an old email of mine. I don't remember ever having another apple ID, but you never know, I may have screwed something up along the way. How can I check out this apple ID? Can I just authorize the computer for this apple ID without losing/deleting/messing up our main normal apple ID? I am happy for all the music to be in one big music account - none of my question pertains to having separate accounts or IDs for family members.I simply want to know if these two apple IDs can exist harmoniously together on one computer without messing things up.

Yes. You need to sign in with the correct Apple ID.
You can check it out on computer iTunes, select the song, right click and choose "Get Info"
You can see Purchased by and Apple ID used to obtain them.
If it's only a few, your choice is to delete them from computer and buy them again with the correct Apple ID

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I recently purchased an imac for our family. I'm new to the apple world and have many questions. The most important deals with itunes though. My wife and children have had ipods for some time, adding media to them using a windows pc (under one apple id). I'm wondering, first how do i get the songs from my wife's ipod/pc onto our new computer (she has an ipod touch)? And secondly, can each of us have our own seperate apple ids but share songs and other media purchased under each other's accounts? We need seperate id's to use things like "chat" on our ipods.

Yes. You need to sign in with the correct Apple ID.
You can check it out on computer iTunes, select the song, right click and choose "Get Info"
You can see Purchased by and Apple ID used to obtain them.
If it's only a few, your choice is to delete them from computer and buy them again with the correct Apple ID

Can one computer have two iTunes accounts?

I'd like to be able to plug and play my iPod on my girlfriends computer (and I'd like to get my library on here as well so I can get all my music off of my poor little laptop). I'm really not sure what version of Nano I have, all I know is that it's about two years old, so a G4 or 5? ::shrug:: I'm not sure what the evolutionary visualization of the Nano looks like. I don't want access to her library, just mine on her computer. Is this doable?

I figured it out! I'm such a goof... All I had to do was turn on Home Sharing! ::smacks herself in the forehead:: Doh! ::sheepish grin:: Sorry everyone! I hope everyone has a satisfactory, non-denominational Capitalist, wintertime gift giving season!

HT204053 i want to have 2 apple ids one computer so my husband and I can share music . Is this possible?

I would like to t have 2 apple ids for one computer so my husband and I can share music he got a 4s and i got the 5. Can this be done?

To change the iCloud ID you have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then sign back in with the other ID. When you delete the account it will prompt you about what to do with the iCloud data. If you need to migrate it and merge it with the data in the new account choose Keep on My iDevice; then choose Merge to upload the data and merge it with the new account. If your data is already in the other account and you don't need to migrate it to the other account, choose Delete from My iDevice.

I have Two apple ids: one apple id will not authorize on same computer.

I just purchased a new imac. I have two apple ids. Stupid, I know.
I was able to authorize one of the apple ids on my iMac. When I try to authorize the other apple id, I get the message "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." I keep getting this message day after day.
Also, when I hook up my new iphone 5S to my computer I also get this message "This computer is no longer authorized for apps that are installed on the iphone. Would you like to authorize this computer for items purchased from the iTunes store? If you do not authorize this computer, 22 apps, including "Airport", and their data will be deleted from this iphone." I get the choices: cancel, Don't Authorize, or Authorize. So, I click Authorize, I put in my apple ID and password and get the message "We cold not complete your itunes store request. The itunes store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." This is when I try to sign in with my apple ID that I can not seem to authorize.
I deauthorized both apple ids from my old imac.
Any help would be appreciated!

Hi St3vish,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Our Apple ID Account Security Team may be able to help you with this:
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

Can you have two Apple IDs on one IPAD? One for school and one for home?

Can you have two Apple IDs on one IPAD? One for school and one for home?
If so do you know how to do it?

It depends on what you want to do.
You could, for example, have one AppleID for iCloud backup [and therefore message syncing, notes syncing, etc] and a second one for iTunes [music, iBooks, etc].
But if you are looking for a way to flip everything between different appleIDs, then no.

Can you have two apple ids on one mac?

Can you have two apple ids on one mac? We each have iPhones and want to utilize iCloud. Is this possible?

No, in this case the 2 user accounts with its own Apple IDs would be completely seperated.
If you want to share this things like music and app purchases you will have to to something else.
1. Create two user accounts on your Mac (user A and user B).
2. Create two iCloud accounts just for Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Photos, etc. (one for user A and one for user B):
On your Mac (with Mac OS X Lion or Mountan Lion):
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > iCloud > Create an Apple ID (button in left corner)
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch (iOS 5 or later):
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account > iCloud > Get a free @me.com address and create a new Apple ID
3. It is not recommended because you shouldn't share your Apple ID account information with other people but you could set up your old Apple ID as an account just for store purchases (Apps, Music, ...) so that everyone of you can manage the purchases in their own library (Access is limited to 10 devices). Therefore you have to setup this "old" ID in Settings of your iOS devices (Settings > iTunes & App Store) and in iTunes on your Mac.

I think I have two Apple IDs but must have typed in the wrong birthdate when I created my main one, because I can't recover it, but need to.

I have read all the Apple ID support notes, but cannot find how to recover my account in my case. I mistakenly thought I should change my AppleID to my new email, and when I tried to do that, I lost the thread. I recieved a verification email sent to my new email (so it must have added ok) but when I go to change my password, I never get that confirmation email. So when I try to access the account by answering security questions, I must have typed in the wrong birthdate way back when, and I can't get past that screen. What now? I seem to be able to access an AppleID that does not include any of the games I've purchased over the years, so it must be a newer one I inadertently set up. Thus, I haven't been able to access my main working account for awhile now, and I really want to buy some things and have them on my iPad & new iPhone. How do I get access to my old account with all my past purchases in it?

I too added 2nd apple ID when I tried to get Free app from apple store just to get to NONE on the credit card needed. It said it sent confirmation email to my new apple ID email that I have to confirm. Problem is I can not get to the new apple ID email account. On my ipad it logs into my original email account and I see no where to log into another email account. If I go to my laptop, the new apple ID I created does not let me log into email where apple said it was sent to. It did not send to back up email account either.
Can I log into 2 email accounts on my ipad where it says mail at bottom?
Can I have 2 apple ids?
If I created a 2nd apple id to get to NONE on credit card needed, can't I log into it also on another laptop in gmail?
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If I used my original apple id I created when I got my new ipad, it will not let me get free app without credit card, there is no where it says NONE needed. I am too new to apple to start with credit cards etc until I get use to it.

I have 2 iphones 4s's, ones my wife and one is mine. we have different apple IDs, can we share one itunes account?? if so, how??

I have 2 iphones 4s's, ones my wife and one is mine. we have different apple IDs, can we share one itunes account?? if so, how??

If you haven't set up your own Apple ID already don't. I suggest you use the same apple ID as your wife's. The alternative is to do this http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848. It's not efficient as you have to swap apple id's to update apps under both IDs. 20/20 being hindsight, I would have never created a 2nd apple ID for my wife.
Hope this helps.

I have 2 apple IDs, one for Itunes, one for Icloud. Have forgotten pasword for icloud ID. When i try change password it invites me to change password on my other ID, which I don't want to do. How can i change the password?

I have two apple IDs. One is used for most things - Itunes, Apps. The other is the Icloud apple ID which I set up separately when I got my Ipad. I decided to keep them both as I was worried about losing info. However, on updating my Ipad to IOS7, it asked for a password for Icloud apple ID which I have forgotten. I have tried to reset it. The first time, Apple sent me a link inviting me to change the password on my Itunes apple ID which I don't want to do. So I tried to sign in again using the Icloud ID. Rather than asking for email verification this time I asked it to verify security information. It asked for my date of birth which I gave, but it was rejected. So I seem to have no way of resetting the password for the Icloud apple ID. I know I can't merge the 2 IDs so i don't know what to do now!!

Firstly, go to http://iforgot.apple.com and sign in with the ID you use for iCloud. A new password will be sent to your associated email address.
If that doesn't work, for example because it's going to an address you can't access, then you will have to contact Support. Go to https://expresslane.apple.com ; click 'See all products and services' at the bottom of the page. In the next page click 'More Products and Services, then 'Apple ID'. In the next page select 'Other Apple ID Topics' then 'Lost or forgotten Apple ID password' and click 'Continue'.

I have multiple Apple IDs, can I delete one and/or merge my accounts?

I unintentionally have multiple Apple IDs. I just switched to an iPhone and the store employee created what is now my 3rd apple Id. Is there a way I can I delete the extra accounts so that I can have my email addresses all in one place? Or is there a way to merge my accounts?

1. No. Only Apple itself can delete Apple IDs; if desired, click here and contact them.
2. No.
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HT204053 I have 2 apple ids and so now my iphone is on one account and my ipad is on the second account. I was wondering how I can change my ipad to match my iphone so I can backup to iclouds together

I have an iphone and recently got an ipad2. I have two apple ids, which I didn't know (or I created a new account when setting up). So my question is this: When setting up my ipad2 it is under one appleid and my iphone is under my other appleid. Is there a way I can change one to match the other? I would like to be able to share photos between the two and I can't unless they share the same icloud account, right?
Any help is greatly appreciated

Welcome to the Apple community.
In order to change your Apple ID or password for your iCloud account on your iOS device, you need to delete the account from your iOS device first, then add it back using your updated details. (Settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit "Delete Account")

Does anyone else have two Apple IDs? I can't get rid of one of them. It's associated with my iCloud account and I can't fix it. The password doesn't work.

So, apparently I have two Apple IDs associated with my iPhone. One is an old aol address that got hacked and was shut down. Even aol doesn't recognize the email address anymore, and the password doesn't work. It's associated with my iCloud account, so now I can't access that account. My other Apple ID is with everything associated with my iPhone and everything works just fine. But now I can't get to my iCloud stuff. Has this ever happened to anyone else. The guy at the Apple store says he's never heard of it.

Does the alert refer to "Local Items?"

HT204053 Can you have multiple apple ids that access one itune account??

I need to know if I can have multiple Apple Ids attached to one itunes account. Trying to set facetime up on these separate devices and it keeps failing. Any help would be appreciated. I tried to add additional emails, but I all I get is verifying and it never verifies it.

yes you can still sync all the devices on itunes using one master itunes/appleID account.
Music:
If you want to select specific playlists for your kids, DON'T enable iTunes Match on their devices, otherwise they will get ALL the playlists on their devices (learned that the hard way)
If you have wi-fi synced enabled that should still work.
Apps:
I manually select which apps they get on their devices using itunes. It only changes when they re-sync.
Don't enable AUTO downloads on their devices for Apps or Music purchases.
Since I also have young kids using these devices:
I have restrictions setup on their devices. I don't allow them to install/delete apps, nor do I allow them to make any account changes on their devices. This way their devices stay in order and get backed up to icloud. I can easily restore their devices if I needed too.
Once in a while I will disable the restrictions so I can update all their apps.
Hope this helps!

HT204053 I bought the iPhone 5 today. I have 2 apple IDs. I entered the wrong one when I set up the phone. How can I change it to the other ID?

I bought the iPhone 5 today. I have 2 apple IDs and I entered the wrong one when I set up the phone. How can I change it to the other one?

Start Over...
ERASE / Clear All Data
See Erase your device Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
Go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings

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